Antonio Forcione & Adriano Adewale at Komedia Bath

Posted on: 23/04/2016


Komedia Bath - 21 April, 2016

Have you ever been to one of those gigs where you barely know the artist but a friend really recommends that you should go? For me, that was the case with Antonio Focione at Komedia Bath last night. Before taking my place – seated at a table - among a busy crowd, I had managed to sneak in a couple of tracks on YouTube, so I already had some basic idea of the amazing skills of this virtuoso Italian guitarist, but nothing that prepared for what was to follow. For this gig, Forcione was joined by Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale and what a joy it was to watch these two maestros play together and clearly feed off of each other's skills, energy and pure enjoyment of what they were creating together.

Forcione is quite simply a guitar genuis, one of those musicians who appears to be totally and instinctively at one with his instrument....... Read the full review here.