Artist : Okapi and Aldo Kapis Orchestra
Title : Love Him Vol.1 Recent (1927-1952)
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 08/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : KML Recordings
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 31:35 min
Size : 46,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.oh-no! 01:09
02.bud-dub 05:48
03.strange tales 00:45
04.love him 05:26
05.my scream! 01:25
06.aldo kapi 04:25
07.dislessic soul 01:48
08.bad-bee 04:17
09.death of henry ii 01:10
10.ti chiamero' 10 05:22
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31:35 min
╪kapi is Filippo Paolini, an Italian
turntablist and sample cutup
artist. Filippo has recorded as one half
of the duo Metaxu (with
Maurizio Martusciello) and also the trio
Dogon, and he's performed
on RAI (Italian state radio) and
collaborated with noted
avant-turntablist Christian Marclay.
Okapi uses his turntables and computer
to create music
completely outside of the hip-hop school
of chopped up music.
Instead he has created some albums that
veers from orchestral to
lounge to quirky experimental music,
while maintaining a delicate
and spacious sound throughout.
His skill at sample manipulation is
really quite amazing. In his
live-set Okapi mix techno / broken beat
/ electro / 8-bit with
melodies including klezmer, polk,
childrens' music, idiot-pop,
hawaian music.
Aldo Kapi (Kyzyl-Suu 12 September 1896 -
Cholpon-Ata 11 May
1952) Kyrgyz composer. Son of Iranian
industrialist Agha Mirza
Kapi and the Italian Elena Bottero, Kapi
was initially destined for a
career as a schoolteacher, and completed
his studies in the
Orthodox abbey of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.
"I dreamt I drowned in the lake": Kapi
scribbled that early vision on a
piece of paper at the age of 19.
Unknowingly, he was describing his
eventual fate, the life he would lead in
Central Asia, and also his
attempted suicide in Issyk-Kul.
Kapi was unable to realize his dream of
becoming a great pianist,
owing to the unwise experiments he
undertook to perfect his
technique during the winter of 1910-11,
which caused the loss of
the use of his right ring-finger. He
decided to dedicate himself,
instead, to composition. Introverse but
often extravagant, his first
works were an attempt to break away from
formal traditions and
classical structures that he considered
too restrictive.
During the decade spent in Bishkek, Kapi
produced his first
noteworthy compositions, such as
Sguadrezzi da pe' (1914) and
Pignottimi d'approsi (1917). In 1920
Kapi passed the examination
for the post of organist at the Holy
Trinity Church of Karakol,
Kyrgyzstan, and decided to perfect his
art among the Tajiks of the
Pamir, under the guidance of the
Ismailist leader Aga Khan III, the
maestro of Taimur Zulfikarov. This
period saw his first meeting with
Yvette Labrousse, (Miss France 1930),
Salah Eddine Ahmed
Bokassa (emperor of the future Central
African Empire ), his 17
wives and Ruhollah Khaleghi (the first
Persian sound-designer,
from Kerman, Iran) as well as written
works, such as the three
great Messe tragicomiche and Kapi's
first proto-plunder-orchestral
pieces.
In 1923 he was nominated Professor of
Harmony, Vako Orchestron
and Optigan at the conservatory of
Dushanbe in Tajikistan.
However, while he attracted a large body
of devoted students, in
Dushanbe he also faced hostility from
Morteza Hannaneh (founder
of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the
Afghan king
Mohammad Nadir Shah (then France's
ambassador in
Afghanistan). Their opposition
culminated in the poor reception
given to his Terza Sinfonia Pooch-poem
in 1926, after which Kapi
returned to Kyrgyzstan.
Recognition came only later, after a
long period of patient revision
of his work. In 1928 he was awarded a
university chair and his
Fourth Romantic Symphony (Death of Henry
II) and Fifth Symphony
(Love him) were finally performed in
Dushanbe. He then went on to
"conquer" Samarcand (Uzbekistan) and the
American poet and
critic Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who
lavished praise on his
Bud-Dub. After reconcilitation with
Mohammad Nadir Shah, the
University of Kabul awarded Kapi a
doctorate honoris causa.
In the early 1950s, despite pleasant
vacations in Oubangui-Chari
(now the Central African Republic) along
with the writer and Nobel
Prize winner AndrΘ Gide (guests of the
future dictator Bokassa),
the symptoms of his mental instability,
evident in the past,
worsened. He was forced to resign his
post and attempted suicide.
Confined in the Kurort Jergalan asylum
at Karakol, he lived for only
a further two years, with only
occasional flashes of lucidity.
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