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Shaker Road
Domenico De Clario
Shaker Road
Genres: International Music, Jazz, New Age
 
Burnt Friedman was on a journey through Australia and New Zealand, when his Melbourne-based friend , field recordist and composer David Franzke passed him an audio document by Domenico De Clario. The 50-minute excerpt came...  more »

     
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All Artists: Domenico De Clario
Title: Shaker Road
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nonplace Records/Forced Exposu
Release Date: 11/4/2002
Genres: International Music, Jazz, New Age
Styles: Reggae, Instrumental
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 881390256020

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Burnt Friedman was on a journey through Australia and New Zealand, when his Melbourne-based friend , field recordist and composer David Franzke passed him an audio document by Domenico De Clario. The 50-minute excerpt came from a several-hour-long piano concert in which De Clario, his eyes bound, had played a grand piano on a passenger boat sailing through the night down the Yarra River in Melbourne. Now to all intents and purposes blind , De Clario seems to become a medium, as it were, whose slender-boned appendages moved the keys. The gently textured piano sound drifts into an increasingly meditative state. De Clario, born 1947 in Trieste, Italy recently took up an appointment as Head of the School of Visual Arts in Perth, Western Australia. Over the past few years, he has staged a number of 'blind' piano concerts in such venues as a skyscraper roof in Bangkok or a stairwell of a building in Salvador, Brazil. All the events were scheduled to coincide with the full moon or summer or winter solstices. The present recording was made in Shaker Village, Maine, USA in June 1996, and presents a compilation of the finest moments in a performance that lasted some 30 days.
 

CD Reviews

Solo piano for the somnambulist
RDS | Toronto, Canada | 05/20/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"His eyes blindfolded, Domenico De Clario sat down at his piano at every sunset from June 1 (during a full moon) until June 28 (another full moon) in 1996 and recorded a series of improvisations which are released here on the Nonplace label. The recordings developed out of an invitation to participate in a project titled "The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers" curated by France Morin. Domenico De Clario performs blindfolded in order to amplify the double connection between his body and that of the piano as receiver-transmitter, and also because he feels that he is able to "stay longer inside each second" while performing. Throw in a preoccupation with the seven chakras of the body, and you've got a pretty good idea as to where this artist is coming from. His music is, by contrast, without pretense, and exists on a level of simple, calming beauty. Without much variation in tempo - Domenico De Clario performs in a steady stream of melancholy, of shimmering sadness reflected on the water of a quiet brook - the pieces are bewitching, yet their constancy has a double effect of sometimes leaving me anxious for greater variation. And yet this anxiety is quiet, overcome for the most part by the nocturnal tranquillity of the music, a long, long lullaby. It's certainly an unexpected turn for the Nonplace label, usually the home for Burnt Friedman's dub incarnations."