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new to stock as of
november 26th, 2010
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| | | creel pone (cuba) #cp 120-120.5 cd juan blanco “contemporaneos 4 • musica electroacustica” compact disc-recordable - musica para un joven martir (10:45) 1975
- galaxia m-50 (8:14) 1975
- desde su voz amada (6:58) 1979
- estructuras (11:44) 1963
- circus-tocata (17:14) 1983
- tañidos (13:01) 1983
- espacios ii (8:50) 1984
| ... last c.p. of 2010 ; finally available (after countless delays, mostly involving the tricky / expert-level remastering job needed to resuscitate this incredible, historically-important music from sub-par vinyl pressings) ; a high-spec creel pone issue of cuban composer juan blanco’s first two egrem / areito label lp’s, covering his earliest electronic music dating back to 1963 ...
... opening with the token non-electronic “musica para un joven martir” (music for a young martyr ; rife with swelling, penderecki-ian strings, spare wood-block iterations & a rather romatically-delivered exhoration towards the end) we’re then thrust into the darkened void of “galaxia m-50” (combining sunken, almuro-esque concrète thunder with some truly terrifying, ruth white -esque spoken fragments, delivered just on this side of pure feedback ... listen to the first half of the sound-sample for but a taste) ... “desde su voz amada” continues on in similar fashion (claustrophobic tape treatments of presumably political speeches ; echoes of luis de pablo’s “we [nosotros]”) as does “estructuras” from a decade+ prior (with its gorgeously minimal & quite deep transmogrifications of the prepared piano source material ; imagine a “dante’s inferno” variant of dick raaijmakers’ “pianoforte” & you’re close) ...
... skipping forward to the early 80’s, the second half goes in a completely different direction, opening with “circus-tocata” ‘s twin “latin” percussion & live-electronic array (ditto, the second half of the sound-sample ; 17 minutes of straight electro-acoustic jamming, keeping a constant rhythmic / sequenced pulse of bubbling electronic patterns to which the percussionists riff & version) ... finally, “tañidos” & “espacios ii” each offer an aggregate of tightly harmonically clustered electronic sound (with the latter accompanied throughout by some excellent, a-harmonic classical guitar shredding) ...
... to think, prior to this i hadn’t thought there was an electronic music studio in cuba during castro’s early reign, let alone one that allowed for the creation of such technically astute, world-class work, making this easily one of the more appealing c.p. offerings in this recent wave ... like the chris swansen offering before it, this creel pone replica comes with both albums on a single disc (at just a hair under capacity) with a separate booklet detailing the layout & design of each lp in question ... |
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this creel pone edition includes:
1 x crystal-clear re-sealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a green / gold foil stamp affixed to the exterior
2 x double-sided professionally printed full-color semi-gloss photo-stock booklets
1 x six-color inkjet-printed compact disc-recordable in a high-density round-bottom anti-static cd sleeve |
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