Andrea Belfi Solo Liveset @ Extrapool, 10/08/2006 Nijmegen

In his live set Andrea Belfi faces the audience with an essential drumkit, surrounded by synthesizers, a loop station, some contact microphones, and one small-size speaker.
The acoustic elements and the electronic ones mingle, intertwine and sometimes switch places: the acoustic sounds are treated as they were electronic, and the actual electronic ones are played at the very moment.
Rhythmic patterns go beyond the mere beat as Andrea Belfi shapes them in cycles, ever-circling but ever-changing, both reassuring and surprising.
A careful preparatory work, which consists in a previous and much reflected upon selection of emotional scenarios, allows the live set to be spontaneous and to "live the moment", definitively avoiding any over-conceptualization. AB main achievement is the building of "proper" songs through a radical improvisation rather than through the use of fixed and codified elements.

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