Is it an organ pipe? A recorder? Angélica Castelló, the performer, tells me its a mixture of both – a super-sub-bass German recorder. She plays this magnificent contraption with focused nuance, and performing on Tuesday evening with the ever delightful guitarist Burkhard Stangl, also with Robert Piotrowicz playing electric guitar / analog electronics and Anna Zaradny playing alto sax. Their collective improvisations were powerfully intense, emotional and dreamy, drone-like but endlessly, kaleidoscopically shifting. The performing space, Amann Studios, run by a really nice guy, Christoph Amann, was an intimate recording booth with three rows of seats, filled with an audience of rapt listeners. Amann Studios is in fact two studios, with state of the art equipment as well as a few antique recording devices still in use. A wonderful discovery, as were the antique stores along the funky Neustiftgasse.
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