Sofia Burgos - Noise Uprising [CD]

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The inspiration for Christopher Trapani's (born 1980) new song cycle is Michael Denning's book Noise Uprising, which chronicles the explosion of vernacular recording that took place in the late 1920s in port cities around the globe. The historical 78 rpm records of this era are the not-so-silent witnesses of the birth of son, jazz, samba, rembetiko, fado, tango, etc. They reveal a kind of B-side of music history, a people's history of music-making driven by the bustling marketplaces of colonial port cities. Noise Uprising (2024) is a polystylistic atlas that unravels a subterranean, cross-cultural network far away from, and with a wider reach than, traditional concert halls.

Using Denning's book as a starting point, Christopher Trapani 'fills in the map' by composing a series of pieces for four guitars and two singers, sometimes including live electronics. In studying these 78s as primary source documents, Trapani transcribes and transforms their musical gestures. These recordings are in turn woven into electronic collages, often alongside his own field recordings, made on site in the cities where the source material originated, imagining alternative histories, fictive encounters and cross-pollinations between styles which in reality may never have intersected: gamelan meets tango, fado meets samba.

With Noise Uprising Trapani uncovers hidden connections between geographically distant genres, but in doing so he always strives to create work that ultimately represents something more than a travelogue or a book of postcards. The short works he has composed for this cycle call into question notions of cultural appropriation and authenticity, challenge rather than romanticize notions of the exotic, and draw attention to the dangers of 'overtourism' and the unreflective, superficial consumption of place. The guitar, in all its possible variations, forms a common thread. But also the human voice plays a central role in Noise Uprising. This recording features the voices of Swedish-Ethiopian soprano Sofia Jernberg and Puerto Rican soprano Sophia Burgos.

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'As musical journey's go, Noise Uprising is a unique voyage of discovery, containing plenty of surprises along the way. [x85] Not only do these early recordings capture a unique sense of time and place but they also give voice to the musical forms and idioms that populated each region, from Argentinian tango and Cuban son to the Tanzanian taarab and Indonesian kroncong.' x96 Gramophone

Christopher Trapani: Noise Uprising Radiola Prelude

Christopher Trapani: Noise Uprising Bombay (Alap)

Jakarta (Kroncong)

Bali

Tunis

Hanoi

Buenos Aires (Tango)

Clarksdale (Blues)

Mombasa

Seville (Flamenco)

Havana (Son)

Lafayette (Two-Step)

Piraeus I (Taxim)

Zanzibar (Taarab)

Piraeus II (Rebetika)

Accra (Palm-Wine)

Lisbon (Fado)

Istanbul (Gazel)

Smyrna (Manes)

Honolulu

Christopher Trapani: Noise Uprising Radiola Prelude

Christopher Trapani: Noise Uprising Bombay (Alap)

Jakarta (Kroncong)

Bali

Tunis

Hanoi

Buenos Aires (Tango)

Clarksdale (Blues)

Mombasa

Seville (Flamenco)

Havana (Son)

Lafayette (Two-Step)

Piraeus I (Taxim)

Zanzibar (Taarab)

Piraeus II (Rebetika)

Accra (Palm-Wine)

Lisbon (Fado)

Istanbul (Gazel)

Smyrna (Manes)

Honolulu

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