V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) — Territorio del Eco : Experimentalismos y Visiones de Lo Ancestral En El Per (1975-1989)

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: BUH Records BR148
Release Year: 2021
Note: highly interesting compilation bringing together material from the Peruvnian experimental scene rec. 1975-1989; featured artist include LUIS DAVID AGUILAR, MIGUEL FLORES, CORINA BARTRA and ARTURO RUIZ DEL POZO... some of the material sound incredible; fusions of traditional south american music (often flute based), Jazz and Electronics, some sounds like NECKS on drugs.. ; ) - lim. 300 copies
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Territorio del eco: experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Per (1975-1989)

The Land of Echo: Experimentalisms and Visions of the Ancestral in Peru (1975-1989)

First compilation brings together the Peruvian experimental scene from 1975 to 1989, a period was the most prolific for a generation of Peruvian artists who, based on musical conceptions derived from modern jazz and techniques inherited from avant-garde music, sought to integrate the sounds of Andean, Afro-Peruvian and Amazonian cultures in search of a new musical universe. Native instruments and folk melodies were used in compositions that demanded modern recording techniques and electronic sounds. This generation was articulated in Lima and was made up of musicians such as Omar Aramayo, Manongo Mujica, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Miguel Flores (Ave Acstica), Douglas Tarnawiecki (Espritus), Luis David Aguilar, Chocolate Algendones and Corina Bartra.
But more than a movement, it was a set of individuals from dissimilar origins, who came from rock, jazz, contemporary classical and popular music, but also from the visual arts and poetry, and who had in common the cultural climate of the late seventies and early eighties in a country marked by a series of social and economic transformations, as well as the emergence of new visions and insertions of Andean culture and folklore in the city. The appearance of a mythical substrate connected the work of these musicians and defined an aesthetic, based on the deconstruction of folklore and the exploration of the possibilities that indigenous instruments offered. And from there they could go towards abstract, symbolic and conceptual forms, but also towards more melodic forms, with a strong influence of jazz, while also taking advantage of electronics and the possibilities of the recording studio.

Territorio del eco: experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Per (1975-1989) - The Land of Echo: Experimentalisms and Visions of the Ancestral in Peru (1975-1989) - is a compilation that offers an overview of what was one of the moments of greatest creative intensity for experimental music in Peru in its encounter with indigenous sounds. Rescued from private archives and limited editions on cassette, these pieces are reissued for the first time in vinyl LP format. The album includes extensive notes written by Luis Alvarado, author of the compilation, as well as much visual documentation. Cover art by Paloma Pizarro.
Beneficiary project of the Economic Stimuli for Culture 2020 of the Ministry of Culture of Peru.

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Primera compilacin rene la escena experimental peruana desde 1975 a 1989, perodo que fue el ms prolfico para una generacin de artistas peruanos que a partir de concepciones musicales derivadas del jazz moderno y de las tcnicas heredadas de la msica de vanguardia, buscaron integrar los sonidos de la tradicin andina, afroperuana y amaznica en bsqueda de un nuevo universo musical. Instrumentos nativos y melodas del folclore fueron empleadas en composiciones que demandaron de novedosas tcnicas de grabacin y de sonidos electrnicos. Esta generacin que se articul en Lima, la conformaron msicos como Omar Aramayo, Manongo Mujica, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Miguel Flores (Ave Acstica), Douglas Tarnawiecki (Espritus), Luis David Aguilar, Chocolate Algendones y Corina Bartra.

Pero ms que un movimiento se trat de un conjunto de individualidades de procedencias disimiles, que venan tanto del rock, como del jazz, de la msica clsica contempornea, y popular, pero tambin de las artes visuales y la poesa, y que tuvieron en comn un clima cultural como fue el de ese trnsito de los 70s a los 80s en un Per marcado por una serie de transformaciones sociales y econmicas, y de la aparicin de nuevas visiones e inserciones de lo andino y el folclore en la urbe. La aparicin de un sustrato mtico emparent el trabajo de estos msicos y defini una esttica, basada en la deconstruccin de lo folclrico y en la exploracin de las posibilidades que los instrumentos nativos ofrecan para a partir de all ir hacia formas abstractas, simblicas y conceptuales, pero tambin hacia formas ms meldicas, de marcada influencia jazzstica y con un aprovechamiento de la electrnica y del estudio de grabacin.

Territorio del eco: Experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Per (1975-1989) es una compilacin que ofrece un panorama de lo que fue uno de los momentos de mayor intensidad creativa para la msica experimental en Per en su encuentro con las sonoridades nativas. Rescatadas de archivos privados y tirajes limitados en casete, por primera vez se reeditan en formato de vinilo LP. El lbum incluye amplias notas escritas por Luis Alvarado, autor de la compilacin, as como mucha documentacin visual. Arte de tapa por Paloma Pizarro.

Proyecto beneficiario de los Estmulos Econmicos para la Cultura 2020 del Ministerio de Cultura del Per.


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