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Heule / Leguia / Rivero / Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole Records)

A ferocious collision of free improvisation and noise, this blistering live session unites Jacob Felix Heule (drums), Teté Leguía (bass), Danishta Rivero (voice, electronics), and Martín Escalante (saxophone) in a 40-minute maelstrom of distortion, guttural textures, and fractured intensity, balancing moments of collective abstraction with sheer sonic intensity.
 

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Jacob Felix Heule-drums

Tete Leguia-bass

Danishta Rivero-voice, electronics

Martin Escalante-saxophone


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Edition of 300 CDs.

Label: Kettle Hole Records
Catalog ID: KTHL015
Squidco Product Code: 35819

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Oakland, California, on September 18th, 2021, By Jacob Felix Heule.

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Oakland-based improvisers Jacob Felix Heule, Teté Leguía, Danishta Rivero, and Martín Escalante join forces for a relentless sonic onslaught in An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing. Recorded live in 2021, the quartet crafts a visceral, unrestrained improvisation where voice, electronics, bass, drums, and saxophone collide in an unfiltered burst of raw energy. Shifting between textural abstraction and explosive intensity, the album delivers an uncompromising fusion of noise and free improvisation, appealing to those drawn to the extremes of experimental sound.


Edition of 300 CDs.

Artist Biographies

"Jacob Felix Heule is a percussionist and electronic musician focused on sound-oriented improvisation following the traditions of electro-acoustic improv, noise, and 20th-century composition. His playing embraces both rough-edged intensity and disciplined instrumental technique."

-Bay Improviser (https://www.bayimproviser.com/EventView.aspx?e=10105)
3/17/2025

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"Teté Leguía (Lima, 1985) has been playing music most of his life. Started jamming funk tunes with some friends in a basement, that quickly lead to free improv and noise. Very active in the Peruvian experimental scene as a solo improviser and collaborator. Has been a member of Tanuki Metal Futari Plus 1, Liquidarlo Celuloide and Trio Nuna. Studied composition at the National Conservatory of Perú. Runs a free improvisation cycle of concerts called "Minutos para el fin" that occur twice a month in Lima and plays frequently with his pop band "Gomas". In June he is going to be on a tour with Martin Escalante presenting their duo album that they recorded in Oslo's Best Studio of Lasse Marhaug. "

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1487117-Tet%C3%A9-Leguia)
3/17/2025

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"Danishta Rivero is an improviser, performer, and sound artist based in Oakland, California. She explores the artifacts resulting from heavy processing of the voice and their relationship to its acoustic resonance.

As a soloist, Rivero often performs as Caribay, conjuring the eponymous mountain spirit, whose laments cause avalanches.

She is a member of electro-acoustic duo Voicehandler with percussionist Jacob Felix Heule. She is also half of Las Sucias, a feminist tropical noise duo with Alexandra Buschman-Román."

-Danishta Rivero Website (https://www.danishtarivero.com/bio.html)
3/17/2025

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Born in Lakewood in the US, Martín Escalante is a photographer, film maker and self taught musician. In 2012 he founded Sploosh Records, publishing various solo and collaborative works. Escalante is associated with Lasse Marhaug's Best Studio in Oslo, where he recorded the soundtrack for his brother Amat Escalante's film The Untamed.

-Squidco 3/17/2025

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01. An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing 40:11

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