| Sparks | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Roberto Paci Dalò |
| Cover: | Sparks (Roberto Paci Dalò album).jpg |
| Recorded: | 1995, 1996, 2002 |
| Venue: | Phonurgia Nova festival |
| Studio: |
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| Genre: | Experimental |
| Label: | Horus/21st |
| Producer: | Roberto Paci Dalò |
| Prev Title: | WITZ FM |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Alluro |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
Sparks is an album produced for the occasion of Roberto Paci Dalò's solo exhibition Sparks at the Palazzo delle Papesse, and presented during the opening on 6 October 2007.[1] [2] It is the third release by 21st Records discography series founded by the Sienese centre and the label Horus Music.
The project is named after the word sparks once used to define marconimen, marconists or radiotelegraphists, in the early years of the XX century. It's a tribute to the pioneers of radio transmission in the Morse code era.About the album, some materials are completely acoustic from recordings made within a ten-year time frame. 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8, are tracks once made in 1995 as part of the Rai program Audiobox. Shpil and Sparks recorded live at the Phonurgia Nova Festival in Arles, 1996. EMN40 as a multi-channel audio/video installation for the Ensemble Musique Nouvelles 40th anniversary, Bruxelles 2002. Yiddish lyrics of Gospel written by Chaim Tauber.
- Enzo Mansueto, Rodeo Magazine n°44 febbraio 2008 [3]
- Pino Saulo [4]
- John Zorn [5]