OTRO QUATOUR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS

Artist : Juan Pablo Balcázar

Release Date : April 23rd 2023

Label : Underpool

Format : Book + Digital

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Otro quatuor de la fin du temps/Una fe particular is an album on paper; a mixed media work where music, texts, and drawings intertwine. It is the result of the collaboration between the bassist and composer Juan Pablo Balcázar and the illustrator Pedro Strukelj, two artists who have been active in Barcelona’s cultural ecosystem for over two decades.

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, the work of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, is the point of departure from which the music on this new project takes form. Making use of a broad sonic spectrum, the compositions are full of different textures that Balcázar has developed, true to his unique understanding of jazz. In his hands, it is a style that knows no boundaries and the music is redolent of the many influences and aesthetics that are part of the history of the art form.

Seduced by the quality of Balcázar’s new project, Pedro Strukelj has elaborated a short literary narrative, illustrated with his drawings which depict a reality that the artist himself refers to as anti-dystopian. This brief chronicle, which serves as a sort of fictitious precedent of what could be, revindicates and reveals to us a part of the often invisible cultural present of the city of Barcelona.

Juan Pablo Balcázar – double bass
Marcel·lí Bayer – saxophones
Dani Comas – electric guitar
Oriol Roca – drums

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