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Garcia, Miguel A. : Argiope (Creative Sources)

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Personnel:



Miguel A. Garcia-electronics

Jon Imbernon-guitar

Miguel Prado-guitar

Artur Vidal-saxophone

Roberto Mallo-saxophone

Ainara LeGardon-voice

Alba Burgos-voice


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UPC: 5609063403923

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs392
Squidco Product Code: 23914

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Spain by the artist.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

Artist Biographies

"Miguel A. García has been active for over two decades and with a discography that exceeds ten albums (presenting which he has toured Europe, America and Asia, performing at no less than the Issue Project Room in New York, the National Arts Centre in Mexico City, the Ftarri in Tokyo, the DOM Cultural Center in Moscow, the Église Saint-Merry in Paris or the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid), is a reference in experimental music and sound art, both for his work as a composer and for his career in the electroacoustic improvisation scene. During his career, the artist from Bilbao has collaborated with names such as Fernando Carvalho, Francisco López, Francisco Meirino, Ibon RG, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Juan Carlos Blancas or Seijiro Murayama, as well as curating events and festivals such as the Zarata Fest, the Hotsetan at Azkuna Zentroa or the legendary and extinct Club Le Larraskito. An immaculate career, in short, to which this work before us is now added. A double album with which the Basque artist has managed to lucidly convey the vital moment in which he finds himself and give shape to this timeless and genuinely avant-garde artistic artefact, called "Littentula".

Like a modern Prometheus but using as raw material the documentation of his own capture processes (both for timbre synthesis and for composition), in this new album García signs an intimate and attractive invitation to sublimation, through pieces that are abstract by nature and that display a brutal sensitivity. A stimulating challenge, which has been orchestrated with musician friends of the stature of Garazi Gorostiaga, Enrike Hurtado and Garazi Navas in mind, who have turned his scores into a major work that transcends genres and is divided into two twin volumes, united by a new artificial beauty conceived from the genes of the old world.

In the first album of "Littentula", García acts as the creator of an authentic sound stage, where the transmuted organic takes us back to the cycle of regeneration of nature. The four tracks that make up the album are developed from an intriguing metric of the beats, which manages to stimulate and expand our perception of the hidden face of the apparent. In the second, this pre-conscious logic ends up deriving into a kind of slow motion convulsion, a deafened, veiled, latent and strangely intense spasm, through which we come to intuit that the dawn and the dusk are manifested in the object of creation. A beautiful game of mirrors, with which Miguel A. García presents before us the most essential intrinsic double opposite: Life."

-Repetido (https://repetidor.org/ediciones/littentula/)
1/27/2025

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Finland-based guitarist Jon Imbernon has been a member of groups including Fallen, Ximel or Le Noise, and Ura.

-XEDH Website (http://www.xedh.org/xedhimbernon/)
1/27/2025

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Guitarist Miguel Prado was born in Spain and has released solo albums, and has been a member of with Julien Krobek, Sannakji with and Ryu Hankil, and White Metal with Michael Pisaro.

-Squidco 1/27/2025

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"Artur M Vidal is a Spanish-born saxophone player and sound artist who grew up in Paris and currently resides in London. As such, he has performed and recorded extensively in the UK, France and Spain, as well as also being active in Turkey, Mexico and the Czech Republic.

His work involves field recordings, sound walks, dance and improvisation, and he is an active member of the improvised music scene, playing and recording with artists and musicians who include Grundik Kasyansky, Jennifer Allum, Ruth Barberan, and Sébastien Branche, with whom he makes up the improvising saxophone duo 'Relentless'.

He has completed an MA in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication and started in 2013 an Mphil / PhD research about the notion of silence in Improvised Music and Acoustic Ecology."

-London College of Communication (http://www.crisap.org/people/phd-students/artur-vidal/)
1/27/2025

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"Roberto Mallo is an audio engineer and musician born in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and currently living in Manchester. When he was 17 years old he got infected by a cassette containing some songs by The Velvet Underground. After that he begun playing guitar which led to a interest for recording and audio engineering that are his passion to this day. He has recorded many bands from Spain like Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, Puma Pumku, Trajano!, Thee Boas, Silencio Oso (now Pablo Und Destruktion), Los Televisores. And he has mixed FOH in many concerts both with local and international artists like: Barn Owl, The High Llamas, Gravenhurst, Stealing Sheep and many more. He has been the responsible for the sound at the San Antón stage of the Sinsal San Simón Festival since it begun in 2010 (now known as Sinsal SON Estrella Galicia). He co-curated with Miguel Prado the Sinsal Extensión Fase, a groundbreaking galician festival devoted to experimental music.

He plays in the free noise band Volontè (and sometimes solo), has released Circular with spanish musician Daniel Del Río and the CD Sannakji collaborating with Miguel Prado and the korean musician Ryu Hankil."

-Roberto Mallo Website (http://robertomallo.com/?page_id=6)
1/27/2025

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"Born in Bilbao (Spain) in 1976, Ainara LeGardon was vocalist and guitarist of the Spanish rock band Onion from 1994 till 2003.

Ainara LeGardon's solo debut was "In the mirror", considered one of 2003's best albums in Spain by the media. This album featured Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts) on the production along with other guest musicians as Joe Skyward (Posies, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Walkabouts) on bass. It was released in Spain by Winslow Lab (Ainara's own label) and distributed by Dock.

After extensive touring all over Spain (where she opened for Thalia Zedek, Tara Jane O'Neil, Dayna Kurtz, Chris Eckman and Karate), and also in France, Germany (supporting The Walkabouts), Belgium and Holland, her second album, "Each day a lie", was released in April 2005, once more produced by Chris Eckman and featuring some guest musicians, this time from the Spanish independent scene, plus Al DeLoner from the acclaimed Norwegian band Midnight Choir.

Once more this record has been given reviews by musical magazines all over Europe (Rock de Lux, Mondo Sonoro, Muzikalia, Bad Magazine, Undertoner, Fomp, Bokson, etc...), as well as some of the most read Spanish journals (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, etc...).

The first part of the tour consisted in 20 shows all over Spain, including opening acts for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney and Giant Sand."

-Last.FM (https://www.last.fm/music/Ainara+Legardon/+wiki)
1/27/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Epso 8:00

2. Far Darrig 9:54

3. Medusa 7:03

4. Coccyx 7:41

5. Argiope 13:12

6. Rii 2:29

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Creative Sources
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Septet recordings

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