Excerpt from Nodens Ictus jam session 06/25/2015 (Natan Mantis's birthday) - Live Improv Synth Jam

Fractal Sunset

Rapsodia Chilensis # 160: Guitarras

Simón González, guitarra. 
"Mandinga"

Nuevo disco 2016 - Dibujando el aire.

Mandinga

Thinking Plague, "The Echoes Of Their Cries" from 'Hoping Against Hope' (out 2/10/2017 on Cuneiform Records)

Clouds scud across a storm-wracked sky, but while briefly exposing rare shards of blue, most often, blacker, gloomier grays lurk behind the mists. 

Sometimes a work of art enables us to articulate our thoughts and feelings in times of upheaval and chaos. In an era when the world has seemingly come off its hinges, an album like Hoping Against Hope offers listeners the consolation that they are not alone. But more than that, this intellectually complex work offers tools to help us make sense, affectively at least, of the whole sorry mess. 

Thinking Plague is a storied band, whose thirty-five year history has seen it cleave consistently to the extreme limits of what is possible to do within rock music. Much of the music it released has owed more to traditions external to rock, such as folk, chamber music, and particularly, the avant-garde tradition of twentieth-century classical music. 

Thinking Plague are often cited as the leading light of the American arm of the ‘Rock In Opposition’ movement, genre-defying and, above all, unique. 

The arrangements we hear on Hoping Against Hope are those we will hear live. Even when singer Elaine di Falco’s accordion is written and recorded in multiple voices, the parts are realizable by a single instrument. 

Leader and composer Mike Johnson and newest member Bill Pohl’s tightly scored twin guitars are panned out wide enough for the listener to balance the pursuit of an individual voice against the ensemble texture, which is the creative focus, a carefully crafted polyphony served by each instrumental voice. Pohl’s addition brings a second electric guitar to the texture for the first time, enabling more sinuous scoring, rather than making the sound more ‘rock’. 

There is a familiar vocabulary in play, a harmonic palette and a phraseology that has evolved considerably over the band’s lifespan without extreme points of rupture, despite major changes and sometimes long gaps between releases; this is clearly the same band that we heard in the 1980s, but Johnson is writing from a creative position that is fruitfully removed from that he occupied even four years ago. As demanding as this music may be, it is made to sound easy, and more importantly, beautiful.

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Thinking Plague, "The Echoes Of Their Cries" from 'Hoping Against Hope' (Cuneiform Records)

Silvio Paredes’ third solo album presents us with nine tracks laid out like the chapters of a book. As the album title The Diary Of A Raven suggests, each track is the musical tale of one day in the life this astute and mysterious bird. But it is also very much a testimony to Silvio’s musical development since his previous album Poptronics, as he further develops his particular mix of styles that effortlessly go from electronics and pop to jazz and experimental.

The album further consolidates Silvio’s musical identity, and the evolution in sound speaks of the musical maturity he has acquired after relocating in 2016 to Bath, United Kingdom. Beyond his ambition to develop his musical project and share creative experiences with European musicians, it has also brought about performances in the UK and Germany, with future touring in 2018 awaiting in South America and Europe.

http://clang.cl/the-diary-of-a-raven/
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Composed, produced and recorded between January and June 2017 in The Tyning Microstudio, Bath, UK.
All tracks composed and performed by Silvio Paredes.
Mixed and mastered September-November 2017 by Daniel Nieto at Estudio Impar in Santiago, Chile.

The Diary Of A Raven

Pajarraco!

Edén Carrasco, vientos
Santiago Astaburuaga, bajo eléctrico, artefactos
Felipe Araya, batería
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ADELANTO 1° PUBLICACIÓN FUERZA LABOR 2018

GRABADO EN 2017 C.H.T ESTUDIO
SANTIAGO DE CHILE

TRACK #1 - FRAGMENTO

Proyecto grabado en Julio de 2006 durante un ensayo.
Quincy Hevia en guitarra, Jesús Parada en batería y Cristián Larrondo en bajo fretless.

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Sin Título57 - A

A collection of compositions and sounds created by Lisa Bella Donna highlighting the versatility and power of the Werkstatt-01 Analog Synthesizer. 

All synth sounds created with Werkstatt-01 multitracked into Logic X with returns sent to Neunaber WET reverb plug-in, Abbey Road plate, Primal Tap stereo delay, and a SSL 2 track bus limiter.

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Cristian Larrondo

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