Sergio Altamura - Down Roma Traffic - Solo Guitar

[k0mpassi]

Very creative, but that's about it

[DanWokoun]

should be in a scary movies when da hot white cheerleader gets killed

[ron619]

HE IS THE JOHN CAGE OF OUR TIME

[MrZenoZ]

queste sono emozioni che vengono dal cuore,These are emotions that come from the heart

[67chevy7]

it's definitely unique. Kind of like it. I like his other songs better. just more of my taste

[elizabet949]

jeny! co on wyprawia z tą gitarą !!

[rickyglockzin]

sounds like money!!!. awesome!!!

[DavidPileGuitar]

the beginning was nuts

[RequiemSoup]

Honestly, the first time I listened to this I couldn't go past a minute-thirty. This song had put me in a place where I saw myself in a place of nothing but savages, ripping each other open over childish things. It creeped me the fuck out. Sergio Altamura is one avant-garde mother fucker.

[SpiffyxSugarMuffin]

After watching all of his videos, I can confidently say Sergio could make an entire movie soundtrack with just that guitar.

[ManuParadiso]

Orgoglioso di essere tuo conterraneo. Grande Sergio!!!

[gustavo66254]

Songs of Fable

[tomDjack]

Just very good and I particularly like his experimentation

[Lyreat]

Now I know why is raining

[MultiWolfi1]

hellooo thats a guitar not a violin -.- people can be so stupid

[patouu88]

@MultiWolfi1 Wooooooooow !!!! very clever

[Phobia017]

@MultiWolfi1 hellooo you don't play a violin like that you play a cello like that -.- people can be so stupid

[RoxInSocks]

sounds like a didgeridoo

[playingforbritain]

Jimmy Page, eat your heart out

[jonathanguitar27]

I LOVE IT... i was wondering how he did the bow trick on a flat bridged instrument. it is all revealed

[blister1324]

Uhm, that guitar sounds like a didgeridoo... wtf

[RabbiAddosso]

The day of my BSc graduation I remained stuck in the Rome's traffic: it was a kind of nightmare and I risked to arrive late. This song describes exactly what I felt :)

[terribletube2]

awesome!!!!

[boardking123]

holy fucking shit, this just blew my mind

[el1ex]

Why there is so many dislikes?????? that was brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!

[VictorDB97]

Why the f* are there circa 450 negative votes? O>O

[YanosAldrin]

oh hey! the soundtrack for my morning commute.

[opusdei1545]

He wrote the soundtrack to the movie 300 and thats why they

yell THIS IS SPARTA

[carosrr]

don´t do that in home.

[pianoplayrp]

did this remind anyone else of some of the music in sherlock holmes?

[javieraguasvivas]

Sergio Altamura, Indiana Jones cover!!!!

[petruccirulez]

hes sexually assaulting that guitar....!?

bondage and shit... :(

[ditoway]

WOW.

[adriennoronha01]

i called these 'slave sound' . i like that

[Zapulzen]

This is a little weird but I can dig it lol

[drummakid101]

Sounds like a didgeridoo with music from Hero.

[gregus766]

music of hell, I love it.

[VPlenzo]

Mr. Altamura, I'm a big fan of your work, but I'll be honest, about halfway through this I was afraid you were summoning satan or something other lmao! very creative though, I liked it none the less :)

[defsownds]

@VPlenzo lol it does sound like he's summoning something doesnt it.. i love it!!

[DookVanS]

hmmm.....



[Steve96461]

its like dark Elizabethen folk music. They should use this for the new Sherlock Holmes film.

[Skizr420]

That was awesome...

[LlamaTheory]

My head just exploded

[smileypie22000]

Violin bow and guitar - $500

Recording equipment - $1000

Weed - $50

The crazy ass music that is created when you combine them - Priceless

[playingforbritain]

@smileypie22000 you get some cheap weed. where do you live?

[smileypie22000]

@playingforbritain - California my man. 

[YouPPerkins]

@smileypie22000 Violin Bow and guitar more like $3000, and weed is free on the balcony ;)

But your definitely right, this is priceless!

[Andy40004]

@smileypie22000 you forgot the CD

[scobiedoo10]

@smileypie22000 That guitar is a Martin & Co. - it alone will have cost around 2000-3000$ :-D

[diresword56762]

CHAAAAAARGE!!!!!

[MrFantasioSpirou]

I cant sleep... :-SS

[pillarofdavidson]

GNARLEY! sorta like Mongolian Folk mixed with something Native American...I can dig it! :D

[HungarianFunnyGuy94]

oh my god

[MrFantasioSpirou]

(O.o)! So scary!

[StoneDeafBand]

this guy can score a horror movie for me anytime!

[anyong29]

Scary but awesome!

[silverhawk0077]

INSANE !

[MrNinja42]

Did he just turn his guita into a didgeridoo!? This is ... genius. nuf said.

[deanman665]

thank you rpoland for giving us such unique artists

[Tocy777]

wwwooooooowwww :D this was something new :O :D

[Indextic]

This is the most innovative thing I've ever seen done with a guitar. Holy shit.

[supermanny73]

So dark.

Like something out of 8mm.

[BigCanOfBeans]

This reminds me of something that I don't want to experience. I guess that what makes it so intensely unique. Pretty much ALL guitarists and composers write music on or about something we all want to experience or dream about, then this guy comes along and completely changes the vibe of the instrument altogether. Very few people are able to change the way people think about something, and for this guy to do it with his music - well i just find that incredible.

[ninomaster]

Essa italianada toca d+! Sergio Altamura, Stefano Barone, Pino...Parabéns pra esses caras, são genios

[bustn86]

dude i think this guy must make sound effects for amazon movies!  this gives me so many ideas

[tagent111111]

this reminds me being sieged by hell horrors in the deepest level of Diablo 1, very nice music.

[zao144]

This is trippy as fuck. It's like being in the jungle on acid. 

[themonth]

@zao144

Fear and Loathing in jungle =D

[zao144]

@themonth haha Exactly!

[shintsu01]

SUPER epic! very creative way to make a great track with a guitar.

You should make cinematic music :)

[fredhelp2]

@shintsu01 he does in Italy

[005E500]

i'm going to cover this

[GitesJNG]

@005E500 good luck ;)

[005E500]

矮痾

[Scream4Rock]

Mamma mia, sentendola mi sentivo proprio parte del traffico romano !!!

[HerreraAudio]

The strangest, most unique use of a guitar I've ever seen - brilliance!

[codyjay26]

one of the strangest sound I've ever heard. He is unique.

[rickyglockzin]

why does everyone think of the devil when they here this? I think sergio is a genius here considering the fact that the title of the song has the word traffic in it. makes complete sense if you concider the fact that traffic was sent here to fuck everyones day up solely by the devil himself as some sort of freakin amusement or something. so heres sergio explaining the pure agony and torture of traffic. particularly down roma traffic, wherever or whatever the hell that is.....

[TheAriannaR]

anche se è difficile decidere il proprio pezzo preferito tra quelli di altamura,io non ho dubbi.....down roma traffic!

[13mdark]

please!! don't call satan!

[sheeplikelions]

i think this is just a little much on the noise side, and too little on the music side of the line. i know sergio is an amazing guitarist, but i honestly think he was fucking with us on this one.

[bathory1234567890]

When he begins to use the stick for the violin I couldn't hold a laugh because he prepared everything so solicitous and started with such a noise :D

[idin10a]

sounds like duduk ...

[EMAHarmony]

Well Im gonna get possessed by the devil...ah well worth it

[Rayqiaoza]

Wow. That was a whole new experience for me.

[guitarplayer354]

That poor guitar...I think it was just raped

[lostinyournightmares]

Only 3 words can describe this....... WTF? O.o

[fistwood]

I don't know what to say man...

This is just too much....

[masgalaxy]

is anybody else watching this high?

[OLstudio]

Wow, insane! This song really ROCKS! Awesome live performance as well.

[jonyboulder2]

Love the part with the cd

[RedRiotKillJoy]

Sounds like Halo! Like more of the halo one music!

[windowgaser]

THAT POOR COW!!!!

[Ev1on]

sounds like the aliens are coming to earth . . . but i like it. . . xD

[ekkachit]

Awesome!

[killtheego79]

this is what a DMT trip sounds like

[MrRonGuitar]

Well it's.... interesting?...

[Stegi1point1]

after watching about 100 videos of candyrat I thought I have seen the border for guitars .... obviously that was wrong

[BlackThunder885]

New music for diablo III ?

[dalealpley]

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you are god x D

I hate Diablo II music I played always with my music on

When can i play D3?

(sorry I m spanish)

[BlackThunder885]

@dalealpley I really didn't expect people to like this so much lol. And I think that D3 is coming out this fall (at least that's what I heard) and hopefully google didn't mess this up :p

Yo realmente no esperé que personas quisieran este TANTO lol. Y pienso que D3 sale esta caída (por lo menos que es lo que oí). y optimistamente Google no desordenó este arriba :p

[GelNeXis]

i feel silent hill

[megadeth1056]

wooowww imagine what stuff he could come up with if he did acid.

[clayheat11]

@megadeth1056 he probably already does. who would come up with it if they didnt!

[karloney]

@megadeth1056 This is probably it lol

[SoldatSolutrea]

There is definitely some dark and sloppy stuff going on in this music. I can appreciate the innovation but it just appears that the majority of experimental musicians aren't using the full potential of their sounds. After all, isn't it possible to introduce something totally new to the scene and have it sound actually pleasant to the ear at the same time?

[jonyboulder2]

@SoldatSolutrea well, just my opinion BUT experimental usually tends to reach the boundary of music vs. noise; reason why it doesnt really sound pleasant the first time you listen to it. As for the sloppyness, well id say he isnt well equiped(rings in betwen strings? cd? bow??)or at least he isnt using the instrument for its intended use.

[blahkaw98]

@jonyboulder2 Since when do instruments have an 'intended use'? They ought to be used in whatever way the artist feels is fitting

[jonyboulder2]

@blahkaw98 you misunderstood my point lol. i have no problem with what hes trying to do man. what i meant is that when they made the instrument, they never thought that someone would use it the way sergio is. hence why it doesnt sound as "good".

[TheAlexwalker3]

@jonyboulder2 shut up and listen, maybe you'll learn something

[TheAlexwalker3]

@jonyboulder2 seriously i cant even get it off my mind, this guy creates something out of pretty much nothing, and lame ppl like you who are stuck inside your musical boxes, doing everything "as intended" and replicating the other half a billion guitarists out there, put him down. for shame, burn your guitar and give up music :D will be better for everyone that way

[jonyboulder2]

@TheAlexwalker3 could you at least TRY to understand a persons opinion before spewing out yours? Besides, like i said, i hav no problem with what hes doing. In fact i encourage it. All that matters is music(that you listen to it, that you like it...), everything else is just perspective. no one is ever wrong or ever right in this matter.

[aespo1]

Whatever it is...he's grinding it out. I loved it. Thank you.

[DarkLionInteractive]

dude, that sounds really great, contrary to what I expected.....

[JohnBacousticguitar]

is this me or does the violin bit sound a bit like the creatures from war of the worlds?

[Trcls]

this guy needs a guitarviol

[aahagassi]

is that music ?

[gayan006]

poor guitar.. :'(

[Mixail19951]

это нечто...гениально!)))

[Machu278]

I'm gonna get high...brb

[DarkLionInteractive]

@Machu278 I'd advise you against that..... you might get some kind of tribal psycho stuff......

[Pushdoorpuller421]

@Machu278 already am

[StariyEgorka]

GREAT PERFORMANCE

[ArneSt0]

nice experimental ! keep goining on ! love this sound !

[NateMile1]

yea, err, africa called, thay want they noise back.

[megadeth1056]

This dude needs to stay off the black tar.

[chiefmojorising1]

@megadeth1056 hahahahahahah yeah wtf is this

[icallgreens]

Karl Sanders would approve.

[Botkiller100]

This is a "tripod" of war of the worlds!!

[mRamble]

wow

[dangthefuss]

this is one of the great impressionists of our time, i guess you people don't appreciate Sisley, Renoir, Monet, Cassatt, or Degas? Sergio's pieces are what its all about, enough of pointed, square, befitting music, so concerned with the aristocracy of man's created sound. Drop the "proper" details, enrich the colors, show the last and coming movement, reflect the light, and get lost in our inability to truly grasp the soul of such scenes... and sounds.

[aydallak]

atleast he's not bieber..

[kdjfnvjvd]

im sorry but i think this is ..... is.. is .. skrew it who cares im turning off my computer now im done watching youtube for today................... night everyone FTW

[saico73]

Avant garde

[Infamanious]

@Wcburg1 Who gives a fuck what you ask for

[HackUsationCA]

@Infamanious Its a joke, calm down.

[juanperez0505]

hey , very creative, one bow with steel string, sound like a tribal ritual

[wuzuquanguy83]

weak

[theguyMS]

and this is why we don't drop acid kids.

[whouston33wh]

@theguyMS

No, this is why we do drop acid.

[theguyMS]

this isn't weed smokin' music. this is acid droppin' music.

[snusskalle]

this could be some music to diablo 3 ;D

[guitarplayer354]

holy shit ,how did he come up with that ?, very cool , but different lol

[fmatt001]

WTF? Im just curious how he even managed that idea. God I love that I'm Italian too.

[kankhajoora]

acoustic trance !!! .. whr's my hookah ?

[trustnodrug]

This is what I figure crazy people think all music, good or bad sounds like.

[vinnypimentel]

sounds like berrante

[Creganization]

This one gets all the chicks

[Flash447]

your music should be soundtrack in movies at least:)

[MmM17000]

You are a genius *__*

[Kickassmetal90]

I like this tbh

[garrethdavis]

how the hell do you come up with this? seriously

[garrethdavis]

wow this is incredible

[silence6210]

CD in a guitar as you hit it=snare

Putting a ring, piece of paper, and bow on a guitar=cello with synthesizer

But if mean if you really insist of doing it this way...

[rrrrockin]

yup its cool ,,just a bit out there ,,,,uh ya ,,,,excorcist-voodoo clenzing

[ShodakonFury]

This song reminds me of some voodoo ritual or some African chant-like sacrifice. Mad creepy but AMAZINGLY creative and addicting to listen to.

[abfplano54]

how can he write a song so beautiful like dragonfly then write hell's soundtrack???

[MrJhon7]

When I heard this I thought it was a type of satanic cult ahahhaa

[MrJhon7]

WWTTFF ?!

[blueharu12]

sounds like a molested cow in a tribal chant

[mosharybobo]

@blueharu12 dude........

[LordOFThisWorld19]

@blueharu12 Good job, you made me lulz

[evilclownkiller]

@blueharu12 hahahaha no lie! i just laughed out loud cause you took the words right of my mouth haha

[Parazytic]

omg this makes me want to cry lol look at the guitar this is like saw for that poor thing all strung up with objects inside it and squealing but anyways very interesting composition it definitely fits some sort or thirller or horror scene imo

[ryanohern12314]

this shit belongs on jamomji

[Geoshi]

Close your eyes, and listen to the full song, what do you visualize?

[RobiRamone]

@Geoshi

nothing.That´s the problem!

[JURGMANDR]

reminds me of either buddhist chants or tibetan throat singing

[WVK23]

FUCKING AWSOME!!!

[Wcburg1]

i'm not even gonna ask for tabs

[TheMrsilence]

@Wcburg1 whahahahahaha

[DAKMAIN]

@Wcburg1 Basically a bunch of 'check performance notes' indications..

[shailin1204]

annoying but amazing at the same time

[progressivo2]

403 ass hole people

[ogBIGGINS]

requesting tabs? seriously? why don't you try and learn to read actual music and become a real musician. you guys are destroying true music.

[weebok4412]

@ogBIGGINS Being a musicican is not about just reading music, but also how you can express and play music using technique, heart and whatever. So you don't have to read music to be a true musician. You just have to know how to play it...

[ogBIGGINS]

@weebok4412 you pretty much just told me that you don't have to know the alphabet in order to type, just know how to press the keys. That's like saying you don't need to know any words to write something, just know how to hold the pen/pencil. make sense now?