Artist : Okapi & Aldo Kapi's Orchestra
Title : Love Him Vol.2 Early (1914-1926)
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 08/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : KML Recordings
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 28:38 min
Size : 42,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.devi mangiare!!! 00:53
02.massaggi 03:32
03.pooch poem 00:30
04.sguadrezzi da pe' 04:13
05.everything must change p.1 01:02
06.everything must change p.2 02:41
07.secret tongue 01:11
08.altri massaggi (visti da dietro) 03:40
09.waiting the deadline 01:17
10.bah! 03:34
11.my old tune 00:54
12.pignottimi d'approsi 03:46
13.the next! 01:25
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28:38 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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