I Suite No. 8 «Bot-Ba» trekker Giacinto Scelsi (1905 -1988) seg tilbake til de tibetanske høyslettene og inviterer til meditasjon, kontemplasjon og tradisjonelle ritualer, før han avslutter i en rytmisk og energisk musikalsk eksplosjon.
Medvirkende: Dario Garau Setzu på piano og Paolo Vinaccia på perkusjon.
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Dario Garau Setzu (Cagliari, 1964), got his Diploma in Piano in 1986 at the Music Conservatory «L. Cherubini» and specialized at the «Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst ‘Mozarteum'» in Salzburg. Garau Setzu attended several specialization courses in different disciplines (piano, harpsichord, composition, analysis, musicology, music didactics) with acclaimed musicians. He has carried out an intense concert activity, as a soloist as well in chamber ensembles, often in some of the most renowned concert-halls in Europe. From 1991 to 1993 he was the pianist of the «Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik -ÖENM-«, with which he took part in several prestigious European festivals of Contemporary Music. He often recorded for radio and television stations both in Italy and abroad. For many years Garau Setzu has worked in Italy as a music director and/or pianist in several theatre productions/performances. For over 30 years Garau Setzu has been carrying out researches on the piano literature. In 1993 he conceived a project -in different sections- for the (re)valuation of composers, works, interpreters,…and various musical/artistic activities of Eastern Europe. Dario Garau Setzu gives regularly lectures, seminars and conferences all over Europe, and recently in North- , South America and Asia too, concerning the piano literature of the 20th century . For about 30 years he has been teaching Piano music and Piano improvisation by some secondary schools in Cagliari. Besides his activity as musician, is to mention a kind of “theatre-therapy” that he built for almost 15 years for the treatment of the Senile Dementia /Alzheimer of his mother. The case of his mother, her Ukrainian actresses-assistants and in general of the “big entourage” of Ukrainian people at home (his house is nicknamed “Dom Ukrajina”) is well-known all over the world in the field of the (Senile) Dementias diseases. Among others, he has been invited to present the case of his mother at the 25th Alzheimer World Conference of Thessaloniki in March 2010.
Paolo Vinaccia (født 27. mars 1954 i Italia) er en italiensk komponist, jazztrommeslager og perkusjonist som kom til Norge i 1979. Han har etter hvert jobbet med artister som Terje Rypdal, Bendik Hofseth, Jan Eggum, Anne Grete Preus, Knut Reiersrud og Jonas Fjeld for å nevne noen få. Han har også turnert og gjort innspillinger med Palle Mikkelborg, Mike Manieri, Jon Christensen og David Darling, foruten hans turneer og innspillinger med Arild Andersen.
Vinaccia har vært med på mer enn 100 album og er stadig etterspurt som studio-musiker. Han fikk i 1997 Gammleng-prisen i klassen studio.
I 2006 komponerte han sammen med Terje Rypdal bestillingsverket til Canal Street, jazz- og bluesfestivalen i Arendal. Verket ble satt opp med band og 4 mannskor på 4 Colin Archer–skøyter.