Comme toujours, un concert de Paul Metzger nous laisse dans un état de stupéfaction et de bonheur intense. Ses improvisations sur banjo modifié (23 cordes) ou guitare, témoins d'une large culture musicale et d'une technicité sans nom, nous empêchent toute autre écoute pendant plusieurs heures.
Ici, un extrait d'un concert donné à Charleroi en Belgique, trois jours après celui qu'il a donné à Paris aux Nautes en décembre 2013.
As often, a Paul Metzger’s concert let us in a state of stupefaction and intense happiness. His improvisations on modified banjo (23 strings) or guitar, witnesses of a large musical culture and an unnamed technicality, prevent us from listening for several hours.
Here, an excerpt from a concert he gave in Charleroi, Belgium, three days after the one he gave in Paris to the Nautes in December 2013.
Here, an excerpt from a concert he gave in Charleroi, Belgium, three days after the one he gave in Paris to the Nautes in December 2013.
Amazing!
"In 1979, Paul Metzger drilled a few
innocent holes into a Yamaha acoustic guitar. A self taught musician
with 5 years of playing behind him, Metzger was growing tired of the
conventions of the instrument. This lobotomy was the first of many
surgeries that would follow in years to come. Strings were added,
subtracted, added again; the frets of the neck were disemboweled and
retrofitted with a sarod like metal fingerboard plate; paint was
splattered over it, a rejigged music box was affixed to the guitar's
belly, a crash cymbal mounted to its bottom. On the face of it, the
instrument took on the look of a piece of tramp art. "
Published by Miguel Capon for "13 questions" on "Prepared guitars"
A signaler son disque "Tombeaux" chez Nero's Neptune, dans lequel l'une des trois pièces est une adaptation d'une pièce de Debussy.
In his ”Tombeaux” CD published by Nero’s Neptune, one of the three pieces is an adaptation of a Debussy’s piece.
