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FREE Concert: Cataldi's Spaghetti Eastern Music at Port Washington Library

On Wednesday, November 20 at 7 pm, the Port Washington Public Library’s
popular Soundswap
series will present a free 90 minute concert by local
guitar hero Sal Cataldi.  His critically
acclaimed one-man band, Cataldi’s
Spaghetti Eastern Music
, presents a unique combination of machine driven,
bebop- and funk-flavored guitar instrumentals and Brit folk inspired vocal
tunes.

Cataldi’s Spaghetti Eastern Music is the solo project of Port

Washington-based guitarist/keyboardist, Sal
Cataldi
. Cataldi’s work has received consistent critical raves.  Time
Out New York
writes: "Cataldi's largely instrumental,
Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and
hauntingly moody atmosphere." Newsday

adds: “Mad scientist-guitarist-keyboardist Cataldi’s brings the funk and throws
it in a mixer with electronica, bebop and blues.”  Called “truly excellent” by The Village Voice, “triumphantly
funkified” by UPI, “a stimulating
soloist” by The New York Press and
“a jazz virtuoso without the need to prove it” by Aquarian Weekly, Cataldi thinks renowned Rolling Stone writer John
Swenson, who penned the liner notes to Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up and Play Yer
Guitar,” may have put it best: “He’s the hippie guitarist playing to another
dimension.”



Cataldi’s sound is the product
of an insatiable musical soul and a record collection rivaling the Smithsonian.
Funk, future blues, Blue Note jazz, Kraut Rock and ‘70s-era Miles collide in
instrumentals like “She Walks The Burning Stairs.” The orch pop of later-day
Zombies rears its hook-laden head in “Maria” while Fender Rhodes grooves drive
pieces like “Time for Letting Go.” Cataldi’s “Unemployed” is a I-IV-V rocker
ideal for these downsized-times, while “Mama Called” is a haunting acoustic
ballad about a weekly call from mom … made from the great beyond. “Tom
November” “and “Pharoah’s Tomb” are technicolor movie music, dreamy strings and
effects punctuated by sinewy guitar adventures.

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