Manongo Mujica / Richard Pinhas / Makoto Kawabata
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Topic: Manongo Mujica / Richard Pinhas / Makoto Kawabata
Posted By: buhrecords
Subject: Manongo Mujica / Richard Pinhas / Makoto Kawabata
Date Posted: November 02 2020 at 22:07
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Hello, I want to recommend two albums that I have released with my record label Buh Records. The first is from Makoto Kawabata, Richard Pinhas, Manongo Mujica, Juan Luis Pereira and Hiroshi Higashi, called Alturas. And the second is a double album by Manongo Mujica and Terje Evensen, called Paracas Ritual. Here the lnks with info of both albums, enjoy:  MAKOTO KAWABATA/RICHARD PINHAS/ MANONGO MUJICA / JUAN LUIS PEREIRA / HIROSHI HIGASHI - ALTURAS (2020) LP http://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alturas" rel="nofollow - https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alturas  MANONGO MUJICA / TERJE EVENSEN - PARACAS RITUAL (2020) 2LP http://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paracas-ritual" rel="nofollow - https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paracas-ritual
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Posted By: buhrecords
Date Posted: November 03 2020 at 06:08
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Manongo Mujica / Terje Evensen - Paracas Ritual (2LP) Manongo Mujica is a Peruvian percussionist, composer and visual artist. His constant search for sounds, from native to electronic, has even led him to compose music from silence. Norway’s Terje Evensen specialises in improvised modern jazz combined with electronic elements, creating spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity.
Paracas Ritual, the new album by Manongo Mujica and Terje Evensen, is the result of an investigation carried out by the duo in the desert and bay of Paracas, south of Lima, on the Peruvian coast. Long days of deep listening and recordings of sounds from the desert and the bay have served as material and inspiration for this first collaborative project. The album also includes photographs of the Paracas landscapes made by Pauline Barberi and paintings by Manongo himself, also inspired by these landscapes, which were in turn the result of a previous visual project and which have served as a point of reference and complement. The visual is one of the affinities between Mujica and Evensen. In their artistic careers, they both have shown an interest in exploring the worlds of synesthesia, in the idea of listening to images and in using sounds as pictorial material. Hence, listening to the desert is here also a way of listening to the visual field of the landscape, turning it into an acoustic impression of the mind. And Paracas Ritual is composed of those impressions. The four pieces that make up the album show a diversity of explorations that combine electronic sounds, field recordings and the use of a wide variety of percussion instruments, whose complex montage and narrativity generate compositions in the manner of a soundtrack. Paracas Ritual is a blend of ambient, sound art, meditative percussion music, free improvisation and jazz. It is, therefore, an ambitious album that courses through a wide range of languages, but it is precisely in its voracious search that it manages to venture into unknown sound terrain, as abstract and dissonant as it is melodic and rhythmic. And as much as it reminisces about Paracas, it also reflects on the musical creative act that is defined here as an encounter between the time of listening and the time of making sounds. Paracas Ritual (BR132) is released through Buh Records in digital and a limited double LP vinyl edition of 300 copies. Cover image is a pic by Pauline Barberi. Album includes booklet of 12 pages with photos and liner notes. |
Posted By: buhrecords
Date Posted: November 03 2020 at 06:09
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Makoto Kawabata, Richard Pinhas, Manongo Mujica, Juan Luis Pereira, Hiroshi Higashi - Alturas (LP) When Acid Mothers Temple and Richard Pinhas visited Lima for the first time, in November 2017, to participate in the experimental music festival "Integraciones", Luis Alvarado, the director of Buh Records and curator of the festival, summoned the Japanese and the French musicians to Manongo Mujica's studio and invited Juan Luis Pereira (El Polen) to join them for a recording session. The result was this album which finally comes to light, and where a variety of instruments and sensibilities are combined. The guitar sound of Kawabata, the leader of Acid Mothers Temple, merged with that of Pinhas, the leader of Heldon, creates a dreamlike atmosphere, which is supplemented with Mujica's Indian bells and drums, Pereira's pututos, moceño, violin and charango, and the cosmic electronic sounds of the classic Roland synthesizer played by Higashi, from Acid Mothers Temple. Everything flows between quietness and abstraction, an atmospheric music that gives way to inspired melodic developments, which are fused with sounds coming from the Andean tradition, as well as with the classic textural and melodic explosions courtesy of Kawabata. All this is enhanced by the meticulous mixing and post production work done by the Peruvian artist Ale Hop. ALTURAS [Heights] is edited in vinyl format and is destined to become a milestone in the catalogue of Buh Records, a label that has also released albums by El Polen, Acid Mothers Temple and Manongo Mujica.
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: November 03 2020 at 07:23
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Hey Luis! I got the album of Argentinian avant-rock that you put out (BR70 - ¡Salgan al sol!: Avant-rock en la Argentina del silo XXI) - terrific stuff. I'll be sure to check these out too. EDIT: Here are working links to the Bandcamp pages: https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alturas" rel="nofollow - https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alturas
https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paracas-ritual" rel="nofollow - https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paracas-ritual
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