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CALARCO, JUAN JOSE - Darsena Interna

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS52 Release Year: 2009 Note: lim. / numb. 100 copies with full-colour inkjet print cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "... He is from Argentina and had various releases on the internet. He works, according to Mystery Sea, 'essentially on urban field recordings meticulously selected, processed & assembled', which seems to me drifting (excuse le mot) away from the general water theme the releases on Mystery Sea generally have. Which of course is hardly a problem, its the end result that counts here. The water sounds that we hear in the first part of 'Darsena Interna' is not from the (mystery) sea, but rain dripping in buildings. I think. His field recordings are pretty interesting and has put them together into quite an interesting collage of sound. Not unlike Christopher McFall urban soundscapes, Calarco moves around the city - at night I would think, hearing his music - and records elevators, ventilators and obscure empty spaces, and the music he creates from that sounds rather dark and gloom. The soundtrack to a movie about a killer loose in the city. Mysterious music that has a rather unsettling character, but it sounds great. Cinematic qualities all around here." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "Coming across Argentinian sound artist Juan José Calarco's works is a penetrating & unique perceptive experience. Based essentially on urban field recordings meticulously selected, processed & assembled, his soundscapes seem to tap the collective Subconscious, as well as depicting a fundamental Mystery imbuing all things... With the consistence of a gas, his music, an amalgam of volatile emanations & vital fluids, seeps through every pore... After several pieces for compilations, releases for netlabels (TIBprod, Test Tube...), a 3"cdr for the now defunct The Locus of Assemblage imprint, a to be continued refined collab with Adrián Juárez, and other collabs with Ubeboet & Pablo Reche ("Biesi" on SIJIS), and H Stewart ("Swan of Skin"), he has put together a baffling full-length of metaphysical proportions for MS... "Dársena Interna" is breathing backgrounds, half-light whispers, a draught in a remote tunnel, damp walls & channels... a nocturnal diary of omnipresent streams, clinkings, dilutions, & scraped stones... a thin layer of dust & memories strata, trembling pools & blurred reflections... "Dársena Interna"'s dripping docks unlock an ineffable realm of new sensations, and its faint echoes spread a trail of truth... Those who become permeable will leave changed..." [press release] www.mysterysea.net