{"id":147,"date":"2019-01-16T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/?p=147"},"modified":"2019-01-23T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:03:10","slug":"maurizio-ravalico-live-solo-percussion-20-feb-830pm-roxy-art-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/2019\/01\/16\/maurizio-ravalico-live-solo-percussion-20-feb-830pm-roxy-art-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurizio Ravalico &#8211; live solo percussion 20 Feb 8:30pm Roxy Art House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/files\/2019\/01\/Maurizio-e1548251893150.jpg)\"><p class=\"wp-block-cover-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/maurizio-ravalico-solo-percussion-tickets-55219540131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Maurizio Ravalico live solo percussion set 20 Feb, 8:30pm Roxy Art House (opens in a new tab)\">Maurizio Ravalico live solo percussion set 20 Feb, 8:30pm Roxy Art House<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Visionary percussionist Maurizio Ravalico (Collocutor, Fiium Shaarrk, Dele Sosimi, ex Jamiroquai) will present a selection of music from his solo percussion album \u2018Nobody\u2019s Husband, Nobody\u2019s Dad\u2019, out on Funkiwala records.<br>Entirely acoustic, with no playback devices, loops or electronic manipulations, Maurizio\u2019s unique performance is a continuos unfolding of unearthly sounds, often generated by unexpected combinations of conventional instruments and found objects, both played using a mix of orthodox and extended techniques. Another character of Maurizio\u2019s solo compositions lies in its persistent denial of metric recurrence, making for a performance which recalls the aesthetics of both contemporary and improvised music, despite it being neither strictly composed nor at all improvised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a sense of his extraordinary energy and sonic imagination, check out his album:<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/maurizioravalico.bandcamp.com\/album\/nobodys-husband-nobodys-dad\" class=\"autohyperlink\">maurizioravalico.bandcamp.com\/album\/nobodys-husband-nobodys-dad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurizio Ravalico is a London\/Berlin based percussionist with a surprisingly varied carreer spanning over 30 years, during the course of which he has maintained a lively and constantly cross-pollinating interest in musical expressions as diverse as funk, rock, 20th century composition, Latin American music, free-form improvisation, contemporary jazz and the so-called \u201cexperimental music\u201d of post-war and beyond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visionary percussionist Maurizio Ravalico (Collocutor, Fiium Shaarrk, Dele Sosimi, ex Jamiroquai) will present a selection of music from his solo percussion album \u2018Nobody\u2019s Husband, Nobody\u2019s Dad\u2019, out on Funkiwala records.Entirely acoustic, with no playback devices, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/dialogues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}