Eric Carbonara is a Philadelphia based multi-instrumentalist & recording engineer,
whose search for raw aural expression has led him far and wide
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from noise & electro-acoustic music to taking deep root in the bounty of the
wooden guitar.
Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian
Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk
to form a kind of exalted pidgin style
of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease.
His live solo performances range from contemplative acoustic meditations to aggressively loud electric sets. Carbonara is a regular collaborator in the improvisational outfit, Evil Eye Sound System & plays with the Philly psych-rock group, Soft People.
Carbonara’s full length solo acoustic debut, /Exodus Bulldornadius/ was released on November 2007 on Chicago based Locust Music as part of the label’s ongoing Wooden Guitar series.
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listen to me on WFMU with Irene Trudel
and on David Garland's Spinning On Air
watch a short clip from the fire museum summer solstice reverie
watch soft people performing bloody nose at the first unitarian church in philadelphia