Ye Shanghai

Ye Shanghai () is a live album by artist Roberto Paci Dalò, recorded as a live 5.1 performance in ORF Funkhaus Studio, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation in Wien, for Kunstradio programme and distributed by Soundohm. Beneath the album, the homonym project related to the history of the Shanghai Ghetto.

Background

Sonic materials are the Chinese song of the 30s Ye Shanghai (Shanghai nights) played by Zhou Xuan, sampled and rebuilt, and samples from archive materials from the years between 1933 and 1949, voices in English, Yiddish, Chinese, German. To these, live instrumental and electronic sounds. The album was presented in Venice on 10 November 2014 at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.

Reception

-Carlo Boccadoro, Internazionale 06.01.2015

-Clocktower Radio NY

-Rachel Marsden, Rachel Marsden's Words blog 14.09.2012

-Lorenza Ghinelli, Carmilla 23.01.2015

-Stefania Mazzotti, gagarin orbite culturali 31.01.2015

Track listing

Personnel

• Bass clarinet, sampler & electronics - Roberto Paci Dalò
• Sound Engineers - Elmart Peinelt, Suzanne Wirtitsch
• Kunstradio Producer - Elisabeth Zimmermann
• Design: Roberto Paci Dalò

Credits

• Mastered at Farmhouse Studio Rimini by Andrea Felli
• First performance: September 6, 2012, SH Contemporary - Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair; commissioned by Massimo Torrigiani
• First broadcasting: January 13, 2013, ORF Kunstradio, Vienna
• Published by L’Arte dell’Ascolto
• Production: Marsèll Records, Arthub, Giardini Pensili

Marsèll Records, Marsèll001

References