Covid 19 is a disease with the power to take one’s breath away. Because of the pandemic we now live in a context where one cannot help but reflecting on the very meaning of breathing. What is it that, actually, makes a human being saying: “I Cannot Breathe”.
It is 2014 and Eric Garner dies following a brutal arrest by a white policeman in New York. He dies crying “I Can't Breathe”. Again, it is 2020, in Minneapolis, and George Floyd whispers his cry “I Can't Breathe” while a white policeman sits with his knee on his neck.
“I Can't Breathe EP” by musician Paolo Tarsi is a tribute to Eric Garner's memory and to all cries to breathe that go unheard. A man who can stop breathing in the middle of the street because of the colour of his skin is not a free man. He needs to breathe as every human being does. The essential, the minimum to live is to breathe.
After his last album “A Perfect Cut in the Vacuum”, the avant pop musician Paolo Tarsi's new EP continues his musical path through 5 tracks featuring ex Soft Machine Percy Jones and jazz saxophonist Bruno Spoerri: co-founder of Brand X together with Phil Collins, already session man for Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Steve Hackett, Suzanne Vega, Kate Bush, Richard Barbieri, the former; played with Irmin Schmidt (Can) and free jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, the latter.
An encounter of electronic music, fusion, trip hop and visual art also thanks to collaboration with rapper Zona MC, EmilKr, Violres and artist Roberto Rossini.
Paolo Tarsi
Composer of electronic and experimental music, he writes for the theatre and video art, working regularly with visual artists, DJs, film-makers, galleries and contemporary art museums. He specialized in composition with the Oscar award winner Luis Bacalov and collaborates with musicians from the avant-garde, as well as with leading figures in the electronic, jazz and rock scenes (members of Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, Henry Cow, Tuxedomoon, Afterhours, Litfiba, CSI, Diaframma, Area).
His compositions have been performed in classic locations of contemporary music such as the Spectrum in New York and he has made music for video art and installations presented at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry (UK), Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece) and Synthetic Mediart Festival (Taipei, Taiwan).
His song called 'Artificial Intelligence', co-written with Emil Schult and Lothar Manteuffel, has been danced at Berghain in Berlin, Ministry of Sound in London, Pyramid Club in New York and remixed, among others, by former Kraftwerk member Fernando Abrantes, Daniele Baldelli, DJ Ralf.
His first book “L’algebra delle lampade” is published by Ventura in 2018. In the same year Anitya Records label is founded and Paolo reaches No. 7 on iTunes Chart in Sweden with 'Seven Nights Awake', co-written with Francesco Novara.
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