Ye Shanghai ( zh, 夜上海) is a live album by artist

Roberto Paci Dalò Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemblGiardini Pensiliand he has been the artistic d ...

, recorded as a live 5.1 performance in ORF Funkhaus Studio, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation in Wien, for Kunstradio programme and distributed by Soundohm. Beneath the album, the homonym project related to the history of the Shanghai Ghetto.

Background

Sonic materials are the Chinese song of the 30s ''Ye Shanghai'' (Shanghai nights) played by Zhou Xuan, sampled and rebuilt, and samples from archive materials from the years between 1933 and 1949, voices in English, Yiddish, Chinese, German. To these, live instrumental and electronic sounds. The album was presented in Venice on the 10th of November 2014 at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.

Reception

-Carlo Boccadoro, Internazionale 06.01.2015 -Clocktower Radio NY -Rachel Marsden, Rachel Marsden's Words blog 14.09.2012 -Lorenza Ghinelli, Carmilla 23.01.2015 -Stefania Mazzotti, gagarin orbite culturali 31.01.2015

Track listing

Personnel

* Bass clarinet, sampler & electronics -

* Sound Engineers - Elmart Peinelt, Suzanne Wirtitsch * Kunstradio Producer - Elisabeth Zimmermann * Design: Roberto Paci Dalò

Credits

* Mastered at Farmhouse Studio Rimini by Andrea Felli * First performance: September 6, 2012, SH Contemporary - Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair; commissioned by Massimo Torrigiani * First broadcasting: January 13, 2013, ORF Kunstradio, Vienna * Published by L’Arte dell’Ascolto * Production: Marsèll Records, Arthub, Giardini Pensili Marsèll Records, Marsèll001

References

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