21.06.2026/7:00 PM
Lema, Paolo Angeli’s fourteenth solo album, is a sonic journey suspended between tradition and experimentation, bringing together Sardinian roots and global visions. Recorded in Spain and mastered in Cagliari, the album is divided into a suite in three movements and eight autonomous tracks, all performed solo with his prepared guitar. Difficult to categorize, Lema moves through folk-psych, free jazz, post-punk, and ethnic echoes, weaving together texts from Gallurese and Logudorese poetry with contemporary voices and translations of Palestinian poets. The singles Sciumara and Nakba reveal the album’s two souls: from a folk sound suspended between the Mediterranean and the East to harsher, more poignant landscapes, where Angeli’s guitar becomes an emotional bridge between eras and cultures.
Paolo Angeli is considered among the most important innovators on the international music scene. Starting from tradition and his apprenticeship with Giovanni Scanu, combined with the influences of the twentieth-century avant-garde, he devised the prepared Sardinian guitar — an authentic orchestra-instrument. Since the 1990s he has integrated free jazz, folk noise, minimal pop, contemporary flamenco, Arabic music, and post-rock, placing Sardinian tradition within the contemporary world and within a compositional development that privileges dialogue among musicians from different cultures. In 2018 he performed at Carnegie Hall, joining the ranks of the world scene’s “innovators with roots.” The author of 13 albums and a collaborator on more than 50 records, he has lived in Spain since 2005 and performs at major international festivals, collaborating with artists such as Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Iva Bittová, Hamid Drake, Evan Parker, Antonello Salis, Jon Rose, and Iosonouncane.
A journey into the aura of key practices and figures of spirituality and performance art between body, gesture and vision.
