JUAN PABLO BALCÁZAR – Otro Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps

OTRO QUATOUR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS

 

Artist : Juan Pablo Balcázar

Release Date : April 23rd 2023

Label : Underpool

Format : Book + Digital

 

All Songs Composed And Arranged By Jpbalcazar
Recorded July 12, 2023 At Underpool Studios.
Analog Mix And Mastering At Underpool Studios by Sergi Felipe.
Produced and Published by UnderPool

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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

 

www.underpool.org

TÀLVEG – Arbori

ARBORI

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : June 27, 2020

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital LP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Santi Careta and Adrià Serrano on December 19th and 20th, 2019 at Santa Eugènia de Relat, Spain.

Mixed by Juan R. Berbín.

Mastering and cover photography by Marcel·lí Bayer.

Album design by Josema Urós.

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

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Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

Arbori is Tàlveg’s first long play album, a 10 piece oratorio which comes after Ses-Sens, their first 4-track EP debut.

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

TÀLVEG

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TàLVEG

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

Tàlveg’s first long play album Arbori is a 10 piece oratorio which comes after Ses-Sens, their first 4-track EP debut. Sens-Ses is Tàlveg’s third release, the closing EP of their first trilogy (Ses-Sens/Arbori/Sens-Ses).

As It Fades is Tàlveg’s second long play album, a 6 piece oratorio released on May 14 2021 on tape and digital.

 

Tàlveg presents LIVE SERIES: a selection of the best moments of their concerts, dropped now as a digital EP. These sonic documents are and will be the live testimony of the trio’s musical research, based on the artistic freedom and the assymetries that the oratorio musical form allows them to develop. Small doses of truthful music where you will listen and appreciate the natural essence of Tàlveg’s sound.

 

MARCEL·LÍ BAYER: baritone sax
FERRAN FAGES: electric guitar
ORIOL ROCA: drums

 

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Tàlveg is about contours, about incomplete music that leaves something to the imagination. Balancing on the edge of abstraction, the musicians improvise to push boundaries, not radically but with policy. Which does not mean that musically no risks are taken. It takes a lot of guts and control to maintain the retained tension.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

 

“On préfère vous prévenir que les 3 musiciens sus-cités ne dessinent ni n’installent de tracés ou de chemins dans leur musique. Ils explorent, défrichent, parfois même déboisent à coups de cris, de frottements, de grattements. Libre à vous de vous frayer un passage mais on vous assure que le paysage improvisé/sculpté par les 3 compères est à couper le souffle.” Le Grigri (FR)

 

 

Contact: talvegmusic@gmail.com

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ALBUMS

TÀLVEG – Live Series I

LIVE SERIES I

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : October 15, 2021

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital EP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Eric Ruiz
Mixed and mastered by Marcel·lí Bayer

Cover photography by Alexandra Garzón
Design by Josema Urós

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

Buy album:

Tàlveg presents LIVE SERIES: a selection of the best moments of their concerts, dropped now as a digital EP. These sonic documents are and will be the live testimony of the trio’s musical research, based on the artistic freedom and the assymetries that the oratorio musical form allows them to develop. Small doses of truthful music where you will listen and appreciate the natural essence of Tàlveg’s sound.

 

LIVE SERIES volume I: Excerpts from Tàlveg’s Expanded live show from December 17th, 2020 at Cine Alhambra La Garriga during the “9è Festival de Jazz de La Garriga”

 

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: alto and baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

TÀLVEG – Live Series II

LIVE SERIES II

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : February 3, 2022

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital EP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Quim Pugtió, Kato

Cover photography by Alexandra Garzón
Design by Josema Urós

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

Buy album:

Tàlveg presents LIVE SERIES: a selection of the best moments of their concerts, dropped now as a digital EP. These sonic documents are and will be the live testimony of the trio’s musical research, based on the artistic freedom and the assymetries that the oratorio musical form allows them to develop. Small doses of truthful music where you will listen and appreciate the natural essence of Tàlveg’s sound.

 

LIVE SERIES volume II: Excerpts from Tàlveg’s live show from November 7th, 2020 at Milano Jazz Club during JAZZ I AM (International Jazz Meeting)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Quim Pugtió, Kato

 

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: alto and baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

TÀLVEG – Ses-Sens

SES-SENS

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : June 4, 2020

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital EP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Santi Careta and Adrià Serrano on December 19th and 20th, 2019 at Santa Eugènia de Relat, Spain.

Mixed by Juan R. Berbín.

Mastering and cover photography by Marcel·lí Bayer.

Album design by Josema Urós.

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

 

Buy album:

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

 

“Sens-Sens is a memorable first encounter with the trio, which musically sounds as if they have known each other for years and in which each puts their individuality at the service of the common goal of making exciting improvised music that is not dominated by individual excesses but through the teamwork.” Gert Derkx, opduvel.com (NL)

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. Their debut recording “Ses-sens” contains 4 beautifully intense and intensely beautiful short tracks and is an unquestionable revelation. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde!!” Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

TÀLVEG – Live Series III

LIVE SERIES III

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : August 11, 2022

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital EP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Juan Carlos Carozo
Mixed and mastered by Marcel·lí Bayer

Cover photography by Alexandra Garzón
Design by Josema Urós

Special thanks to Alfredo Costa Monteiro

Produced by Tàlveg

Go to TàLVEG

Buy album:

Tàlveg presents LIVE SERIES: a selection of the best moments of their concerts, dropped now as a digital EP. These sonic documents are and will be the live testimony of the trio’s musical research, based on the artistic freedom and the assymetries that the oratorio musical form allows them to develop. Small doses of truthful music where you will listen and appreciate the natural essence of Tàlveg’s sound.

 

LIVE SERIES volume III: Excerpts from Tàlveg’s live show from January 21th, 2022 at l’Auditori Sala 3, Barcelona under the Sampler Sèries season.

 

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

TÀLVEG – Sens-Ses

SENS-SES

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : February 25, 2021

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital EP

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Santi Careta and Adrià Serrano on December 19th and 20th, 2019 at Santa Eugènia de Relat, Spain.

Mixed by Juan R. Berbín.

Mastering and cover photography by Marcel·lí Bayer.

Album design by Josema Urós.

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

 

Buy album:

Sens-Ses is Tàlveg’s third release, the closing EP of their first trilogy (Ses-Sens/Arbori/Sens-Ses).

It features 3 duos and a closing trio also recorded during the Arbori Sessions in 2019.

 

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“Tàlveg is about contours, about incomplete music that leaves something to the imagination. Balancing on the edge of abstraction, the musicians improvise to push boundaries, not radically but with policy. Which does not mean that musically no risks are taken. It takes a lot of guts and control to maintain the retained tension.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

 

“On vous assure que le paysage improvisé/sculpté par les 3 compères est à couper le souffle.” Le Grigri (FR)

 

“One of the most interesting new trios on the European Avantgarde Scene” (Maciej Lewenstein, PL)

TÀLVEG – As It Fades

AS IT FADES

Artist : Tàlveg

Release Date : May 14, 2021

Label : Bandcamp

Format : Digital LP / Tape

All music by Marcel·lí Bayer, Ferran Fages and Oriol Roca

Recorded by Vicent Pérez and Ignasi de Blas on December 15th, 2020 at W Room Studio, Barcelona

Mixed by Vicent Pérez and Marcel·lí Bayer
Mastered by Marcel·lí Bayer

Album design and Tàlveg’s logo by Josema Urós
Cover image by Martina Manyà

Produced by Tàlveg.

Go to TàLVEG

Buy album:

Barcelona based TàLVEG is a collaborative trio installed in an incessant search for new textures, chasing the light behind dark atmospheres and desolate landscapes, combining a palette of super-saturated colors with lyrical passages. The music unfolds in the form of an oratory building a narrative flow from the combinatorial possibilities that they explore as a trio.

 

As It Fades is Tàlveg’s second long play album, a 6 piece oratorio which comes after their debut album Arbori.

 

Marcel.lí Bayer: alto and baritone saxophone

Ferran Fages: electric guitar

Oriol Roca: drums

 

 

“Tàlveg is one of the most interesting new trios on the European avant-garde scene. A must purchase for anybody interested in contemporary avant-garde.”  Maciej Lewenstein (PL)

 

“Thinking that Arbori is their first full album as Tàlveg, the listener gets the feeling of urgency and importance.” Fotis Nikolakopoulos, The Free Jazz Collective, Freejazzblog.org (INT)

 

“These guys know exactly where they are and what they’re doing – they know the architecture and ambience they’re creating: the vast halls of silence illustrated by a single harmonic, the groaning bari-ous vistas, the flocks of cymbals across a distant sky, the brutal (dis)storms… They know exactly where they are. Their world. Their landscape. Created, filled, and offered with a yin/yang gesture of grace and ugliness.” Dave Foxall, ajazznoise.com (UK)

 

“The memories of the best years of Sonic Youth in New York rumble in our ears.”  Andrzej Nowak, Spontaneousmusictribune (PL)

 

“The depths of the guttural are explored. And finally everything is heading for an eruption.”  Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazzhalo.be (BE)

 

“The notes seem to come into existence only to live a life of torture and agony, flowing between realms as fluidly as luminiferous æther. The result is an entrancing and bewildering forty-minute experience you ought to live for yourselves!” Dæv Tremblay, Canthisevenbecalledmusic.com (USA)

 

“Tàlveg explores mysterious and unsettling, cinematic soundscapes, and often opt for sparse, implied gestures that leave enough space – literally – for breath and imagination.” Eyal Hareuveni, Salt-peanuts.eu (NO)

 

“They expand the musical palette without detracting from the trio’s signature sound. Because of the often restrained tension, the listening experience is an exciting one. Beautiful album.” Gert Derkx, Opduvel.com (NL)

IVÁN GONZÁLEZ CONDUCTS “MEMORIA UNO”

Trumpet player Iván González gathers again 17 improvisers for a conducting session that will take place on May 12th at Sala Fènix, Barcelona. A second session after his excellent album Crisis (Discordian Records 2014).

 

Sonia Sánchez: danza
Agustí Fernández: piano
Ramón Prats y Oriol Roca: baterías
Marc Cuevas y Àlex Reviriego: contrabajos
Julián Sánchez y Pol Padrós: trompetas
Oriol Fontclara, Tom Chant, El Pricto: saxos
Marcel·lí Bayer: clarinete bajo
Aram Montagut y Frédéric Filitrae: trombones
Amaiur González: tuba
Albert Cirera: saxo y Conducción
Iván González: Conducción

 

Album notes by Agustí Fernández:

“Memoria Uno es un ensemble de músicos del cual forman parte algunos de los mejores improvisadores de la Barcelona actual bajo la batuta de Iván González.
Crisis es su primera grabación.
Medio en serio, medio en broma, podríamos decir que no podía empezar mejor esta Memoria Uno que con una buena crisis.
Pero entendida en el sentido que dan los chinos a la palabra crisis.
Crisis en chino se dice wēijī y esta palabra consiste en la unión de dos caracteres, dos sílabas: wēi y jī.
Por separado estas dos sílabas significan “peligro” (wēi) y “momento incipiente o punto crucial (jī)”.
Es decir, crisis para los chinos denota el momento en que algo empieza o cambia, con el peligro que arrastra consigo este inicio o cambio.
En esta ocasión, Crisis sería el momento en que se crea Memoria Uno y graba su primer CD, y a su vez sería el momento en el que algo cambia o está a punto de cambiar en la escena improvisadora barcelonesa. ¿Qué se encuentra uno al escuchar este CD? Tres conducciones, numeradas como 4, 5 y 8. La conducción es un método para improvisar colectivamente inventado por el músico norteamericano Lawrence D. Butch Morris (1947-2013).
Conducción, o conduction en inglés, es una palabra que resulta al combinar las palabras “conducted improvisation”, improvisación dirigida.
El método consiste en una serie de signos y señales que el director hace a los miembros de la orquesta para que estos reaccionen creando una música acorde a los deseos del director.
Como los músicos tienen bastante margen de libertad para interpretar las señales del director, el resultado está siempre abierto a la inspiración del momento.
Así pues, el director también tiene que estar abierto y receptivo a lo que los músicos le propondrán para poder continuar.
Y de esta manera se produce una especie de diálogo creativo totalmente imprevisible entre los músicos y el director.
Las conducciones son el resultado musical de este diálogo.
Las conducciones de Memoria Uno en este disco ofrecen una música que está completamente viva, llena de intensos colores, altamente energética, con mucha atención al detalle, bien dirigidas y tocadas.
En ellas se combinan la complejidad con la simplicidad, la densidad con el espacio, los tutti con los soli, el caos con la estructura, el refinamiento musical con la brutalidad de la masa sonora, las capas de sonido con la nitidez de los instrumentos solistas.
La suma de 40 imaginaciones musicales coordinadas ha dado como resultado unas conducciones impresionantes. Crisis, retomando a los chinos, es un serio primer paso hacia algo que puede llegar a ser muy interesante si goza del tiempo que necesitará para desarrollarse.
Materializa algo que estaba ahí, en el aire, y que se tenía que concretar en algún momento, unas ganas, un anhelo musical, una manera de hacer música, una visión.
El tiempo de la crisis es el de la decisión, la inteligencia y la valentía y Crisis muestra en este sentido una mutación importante en la música improvisada que se hace en Barcelona.
Un paso hacia adelante muy valiente.
Hasta hace poco la improvisación en esta ciudad se hacía con la táctica de guerra de guerrillas: un concierto aquí, un pequeño ciclo allá, un disco acullá.
Pero ya no es así, ahora hay una escena bien consolidada, conciertos y ciclos semanales, sellos apoyando en su difusión, con muchos músicos participantes de diversas procedencias y generaciones.
Y Crisis es un ejemplo superior de ello. Las fuerzas improvisadoras de Barcelona se han aliado en esta Crisis.
Bienvenida sea Memoria Uno.”

 

Martes 12 de Mayo / 21:30h at Sala Fènix 

C/ Riereta 31, Barcelona

http://discordianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crisis

http://www.salafenix.com/musica/memoria-uno-2

Photo by Elena Márquez

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