Paolo Angeli, Derek Gripper

Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli bows, strums, strikes and plucks at his uniquely prepared instrument of multi-directional strings, hammers, pedals and propellers.

Unclassifiable and multi-layered, this music is suspended between free jazz, minimal pop, post-folk and pre-everything else.

Derek Gripper has produced some of South Africa’s most extraordinary musical work. Fusing the country’s disparate creative traditions with styles throughout the world, his music draws on European classical traditions, avant-garde Brazilian works, Malian kora music, Cape Town’s folk styles, and even Indian classical music, all the while synthesizing them into a style uniquely his own.