音楽 ： Various Artists－New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires(ESP-Disk')

Various Artists
New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires

PRE-ORDER! Release date: October 25, 2019.
ESP-Disk' has a little bit of history with Argentina – we issued Gato Barbieri's first international release, and our Steve Lacy album was recorded there – so we couldn't resist putting out this compilation of 2012-17 recordings (most previously unreleased) from the Buenos Aires scene. In his liner notes, compiler Jason Weiss writes, "In June 1966, just as General Juan Carlos Onganía was leading a military coup d’état, Steve Lacy’s quartet arrived in Buenos Aires: not exactly safe harbor for free jazz. Despite opposition the group gained a small following, appearing on television, at a museum, in private homes, but they couldn’t earn enough for their return flights. When the quartet—Lacy, Enrico Rava, Johnny Dyani, Louis Moholo, a supergroup in retrospect—played at the venerable Instituto di Tella, whose experimental music center was directed by the composer Alberto Ginastera, Lacy instructed the group to do two free improvised sets of twenty minutes each; it proved to be their only document of the whole adventure, released by ESP the following year as The Forest and the Zoo."
And now? Weiss says, "As in European and American cities, the music survives on a DIY homemade spirit to subvert conventions and construct a kind of presence. But the struggle is waged against greater odds," not least because "in recent years the city government has cracked down on the modest cultural clubs found in most neighborhoods where a mix of artistic events would be held, regulating them instead on the same terms as larger, single-purpose venues. Many places couldn’t afford to stay open, while others became more clandestine." It is not a scene that has managed to receive the international attention it deserves. Fortunately Weiss provides plenty more context, biographical info, and quotes from scene stalwarts in his extensive essay in the album's 16-page booklet.

Tracklist
1. "Improvisation on graphic score" Pablo Díaz Quinteto
2. "Primer jugo bovino" Rulemares, Luis Conde – Ramiro Molina Duo
3. "Amable amanecer" Agustí Fernández – Pablo Ledesma – Mono Hurtado
4. "Relámpagos I" Duquesa (Fabiana Galante – Luis Conde)
5. "Che" Leonel Kaplan – Christof Kurzmann
6. "Relámpagos II" Duquesa
7. "La playa pequeña" Norris Trio
8. "Solo piano improvisation" Paula Shocron
9. "18:18" Data Peluda
10. "Relámpagos III" Duquesa
11. "La puerta R" Enrique Norris – Paula Shocron
12. "Improvisation 0681" Cinética
13. "Plaza y la vía" Leonel Kaplan – Pablo Ledesma – Mono Hurtado
14. "Transición" Fulgor al bies