Our Faceless Empire, by Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Manuel Mota/Gino Robair/Ernesto Rodrigues

Our Faceless Empire

by Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Manuel Mota/Gino Robair/Ernesto Rodrigues

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1.	Nosso Rosto Empire 04:59	buy track
2.	Luftzucker 03:55	buy track
3.	Mi Conde, el odiosas 04:35	buy track
4.	O, Bursty Bruegel 06:17	buy track
5.	Intervalos de confianza 09:31	buy track
6.	Vida de lujo 05:50	buy track
7.	Emético Labilty 04:57	buy track
8.	Um Lilburn em Flovilla 04:01	buy track
9.	A Cartesian Blaspheme 05:39	buy track

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Recorded in Oakland, California in 2006, during a long journey that took violinist Ernesto Rodrigues and guitarist Manuel Mota from Vancouver, Canada to Long Beach, Southern California, with stops in Seattle and San Francisco, this encounter between two Portuguese musicians and Californian improvisers Gino Robair (energized surfaces/voltage made audible) and Ernesto Diaz-Infante (acoustic guitar), invigorates the open debate over the different forms of musical expression related to improvisation/instant composition. These forms of communication evidence a particular interest in exploring the most delicate aspect of the sound world. The chosen elements–acoustic and electric strings as well as various electronics/percussions– interact to work out a fascinating, enchanting angle regarding timbric and textural possibilities and instrumental combinations. The voices interweave with ductility and take advantage of the broadened dynamic spectrum, which goes from intervals of silence to the resonance of a meticulous yet delicate low volume activity, and these aspects are accentuated by the clarity of the recording, which was a result of a competent and assertive placement of microphones. Yet the most interesting aspect is perhaps to witness the development of a collective language, nurtured by the spontaneous inspiration and a remarkable ability to react in real time to the stimulus of the other ensemble members. There are some moments that sound close to the reductionist/”near silence” approach, others to electroacoustic experimentation and some even to the European schools of free improvisation. However, what is mostly heard throughout the recording is an organic compound boiled on a low flame, made up with the different forms and techniques of the contemporary free musical expression, and it privileges as a whole the richness of color, a purified sense of collectiveness and a surprising kinetic motion between serenity and restlessness. Natural, spontaneous music, filled with mystery, angular, exploratory and intense: just like we dreamed it. --Eduardo Chagas

Portuguese to English Translation: Gerardo Alejos

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released July 4, 2007

Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Acoustic Guitar
Manuel Mota – Electric Guitar
Gino Robair – Energized Surfaces, Voltage Made Audible
Ernesto Rodrigues – Violin

All compositions by Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Manuel Mota, Gino Robait, and Ernesto Rodrigues
Recorded and Engineered by Scott R. Looney, 1510 Studio, Oakland, California USA, February 29, 2006.
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Gino Robair
CD Art & Design by Jeff Petersen

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In 1997, San Francisco composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante began the Pax Recordings record label which is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and contagion of music from the margins of our culture and psyches. He and filmmaker Marjorie Sturm run Pax Recordings. ... more

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