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Various Artists - Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra '2024

Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra
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Album name Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra
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Date 2024
GenreAmbient,Country,Folk
Play time 78 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 183; 361 MB
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Smiling C & Séance Center navigate the uncharted waters of
‘80s/‘90s Mexican ambient and experimental music, with particular
focus on artists inspired by Mesoamerican mythology and heritage. Proper sweat
lodge fumes for the discerning armchair tripper, RIYL Vini Reilly, Jon Hassell,
Celestial, Finis Africae

“Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra (Triangles of Light and Spaces
of Shadow) is a collection of visionary Mexican electronic music sourced from
obscure cassettes, CDs, private pressings, and personal archives, presented by
Séance Centre and Smiling C. These works trace an expansive scene of
prescient musicians who created a unique speculative cosmology, forging
Mesoamerican mythologies with innovative sonic technologies.

From the mid-80s through the 90s, a network of Mexican musicians embarked on a
journey to craft a musical expression distinct from the mainstream musical
culture that dominated the airwaves and record industry. Based around practices
of collaboration, ethnomusicology, electronic experimentation and
home-recording, these artists traversed territories at the very edges of genre
and musical form. Myth-scientists Antonio Zepeda, José Luis Fernández
Ledesma, Jorge Reyes, Isaac Alva, and La Fábula venture into the periphery of
the new age, incorporating Pre-Columbian rhythms and melodies into their
dream-like compositions. Vistas Fijas, Armando Velasco, Eblen Macari, and Gabo
move through radical new wave territories, utilizing guitars and drum machines
to map their musical chronicles. Germán Bringas and Eugenio Toussaint
traverse the jazz landscape, blending horns with electronics, improvising long
uncharted expeditions. Pinning down a unified sound for these artists is
challenging, yet they collectively cohabitate the capacious space of "ambient,"
employing diverse expressions through various imaginative modalities. What
distinguishes these artists is a distinctly transhistorical approach which
vividly imagines sonic possible worlds.

In an attempt to situate themselves within a culturally and historically complex
landscape, many of the artists on the compilation reactivate ancient
Mesoamerican music traditions, those of the Aztecs, Maya, and Olmecs. Their
electronic compositions are intricate tapestries woven with the haunting
melodies of pre-Hispanic flutes and ocarinas, resonating alongside the echoes of
ancient percussive marvels like the teponaztli and huéhuetl. Ritualistic
chants, undulating synths, and atavistic rhythms intertwine, conjuring a
hypnotic mosaic of chimeric sound. Natural and acoustic sounds are juxtaposed
within a synthetic habitat, as if towering skyscrapers cast a shadow across
ancient pyramids. Rather than longing for an impossible past, these works evoke
fantastical visions suspended in dreams, glimpses into the mythical realm of the
hummingbirds.

The title "Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra" (Triangles of Light and
Spaces of Shadow) is inspired by a public access TV show of the same name that
showcased several artists featured in this compilation. Imagining triangular
prisms of light superimposed on otherworldly shadows feels apt for these
illusory and phantasmagoric sounds. The space between these two opposing but
interdependent images is the resonant juncture where these artists create their
auditory oracles. This compilation highlights the prophetic luminaries of this
underground community of musicians, with many of these songs previously
unreleased or only available on fugitive formats until now.”

Tracklist:
1.01 - Arbol Perenne (Gabo) - Preludio S:N (2:40) 
1.02 - Antonio Zepeda & Eugenio Toussaint - Viento De Lluvia (5:18) 
1.03 - La Fabula - Acuarela Crepuscular (5:10) 
1.04 - Antonio Zepeda & Eblen Macari - Brisa (5:10) 
1.05 - Armando Velasco - Dafne (6:18) 
1.06 - Eblen Macari - Clarion (3:25) 
1.07 - Vistas Fijas - Dias De Margarita (3:54) 
1.08 - Arbol Perenne (Gabo) - Era Venus (2:42) 
1.09 - Armando Velasco - Una Vez (2:22) 
1.10 - Isaac Alva - Valle De La Luna (6:58) 
1.11 - La Fabula - Changanyika (3:29) 
1.12 - Germán Bringas - Nos Observan (5:50) 
1.13 - Antonio Zepeda & Jorge Reyes - Nosotros Éramos Los Colibríes De
Tus Sueños (3:51) 
1.14 - Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma - La Primera Luz (2:07) 
1.15 - Vistas Fijas - Gotas (5:04) 
1.16 - Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma - Evos Luz (8:07) 
1.17 - Isaac Alva - Vuelo Azul (6:01)

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