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El Espanto de Lo Sensible

by Destructura

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Horribelle 10:46
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Der Idiot 06:57
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Hedon 03:04
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Todhue 07:32
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Kusaguama 08:35
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about

“Destructura started around October 2010, after meeting Luis Conde a few months before. We had first met as part of an experimental double quartet, called "Doble Cuarteto '' formed by four saxophones and four tabletop/extended techniques guitars, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

We both had a similar industrial background, in that we were both active factory workers from middle class families with humble factories, with a common and familiar machinery soundscape as a daily thing. That probably helped to click together in musical and aesthetic terms.

The initial Destructura was sort of a post-industrial-free improv duet, prepared guitar and a variety of wind instruments. A few months and gigs later Wenchi Lazo, who is one of the pioneers of the Buenos Aires experimental and free improv scene, active since 1988, joined us on guitar.
We started playing as a trio and occasionally as a quartet with the addition of Jose de Diego, a performer and non- linear drummer (if that conveys any kind of idea to define Jose's playing).

After a gap of several years while we attended personal projects, we met again a few months ago to record this album, on a cold winter July evening here in Buenos Aires.

The album title "El Espanto de Lo Sensible" or "The dreadfulness of The Sensible" is written in Spanish on purpose to add an extra layer of uncertainty and enigma to non-Spanish listeners; not just that, despite being the title in our language, the meaning of "The dreadfulness of The Sensible" is even elusive for us; it partially names something that remains unnameable, maybe something connected with the times we are living or something further beyond that.

Luis Conde and I usually collect random signifiers for some of our projects, signifiers that just later become clear and significant and part of a bigger and more comprehensive "structure of meanings". The tracks names are also part of this strategy of overlapping of layers of enigmatic meanings, including neologism and made-up words that define an always mysterious object.

Finally, the moniker “Destructura” is not even proper word in Spanish; it is a neologism, a game of words around "structured", "dis-structured" and "on structures"

Hope you enjoy the album!”
--Fernando Perales--

credits

released September 28, 2021

Wenchi Lazo: guitar and electronics.
Luis Conde: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, prepared woodwinds.
Fernando Perales: electronics and real time processing.

Recorded on July 4th, between 7 and 9 PM. at Le Silence Studios, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Recording, mixing and mastering: Fernando Perales
Artwork: Matt Atkins.

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www.improconde.com

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MRM is a DIY label for experimental music curated by Matt Atkins, a London based sound and visual artist whose principle interests are reductionism, chance, repetition and texture. He uses objects, percussion instruments, occasionally a laptop and cassette recorders to create sound collages in both the recorded medium and live. ... more

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