{"id":54061,"date":"2021-10-08T13:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=54061"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:07:50","slug":"tom-nazziola-distant-places-unfinished-sides-golem-overture","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/tom-nazziola-distant-places-unfinished-sides-golem-overture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Nazziola – Distant Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tom Nazziola is an American percussionist and composer steeped in accessible contemporary music and soundtracks. Distant Places<\/em> introduces us to an artist whose music, with its sustained, repetitive rhythmic beats and undulating melodic and motivic constructions, creates a circular effect that places it somewhere in the minimalist movement. The phrases are pleasantly interwoven in a bright, colourful and rather conservative tonal framework. Subtle traces of jazz can also be detected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The instrumentation is eclectic (all kinds of percussion, of course, but also saxophones, violin, double bass, clarinet, piano, cello, etc.) and contributes to the multi-coloured effect of the performances. Influences from Bach, rock and other sources are also present, all subtly distilled into the composer’s light-hearted writing. The album closes with the piece Golem Overture<\/em>, which is actually an excerpt from the tribal-savvy soundtrack Nazziola wrote for Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s fabulous 1920 film The Golem<\/em>, a masterpiece of German expressionist cinema and a powerful precursor to the fantasy and horror film genres. Nazziola’s music is a real delight od crossover middle-eastern-sounding themes, dynamic percussive rythms and modernist and mystery-inducing atmospheric writing for other classical instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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