ODG154: Ensamble Desmembrado / Tras Otro Rasposo Deambular
HARSH FRAGMENTS OF BROKEN UP TRADITION
ECHO ON DIMENSIONS STILL TO DISCOVER
On this new project, Gustavo Madrid decided to mutate one more time and use a new disguise. Once it was Mutantes Melancólicos, then NO:ID., after that Madrid Solo and now it is Ensamble Desmembrado (see also ODG118).
Following the maxim “more is furthermore” installed for the first album from this project, Gustavo Madrid composed this work of art from the superposition and the piling up of fragments of sound arising from the most diverse sources.
He convened countless friends and fellows to collaborate with on this new project. However, only seven braves had the courage to surrender to the project`s requirements and send him their recordings from such distant lands as Montreal, Berlin, San Francisco, Quilmes, Flores, Palermo and Villa Luzuriaga.
Not to leave out of the picture the fertile lands of the Pampas that have inspired his work so much, he also used a repair workshop in the middle of the province of Buenos Aires in the small town of San Carlos de Bolívar to stock a great amount of sounds that go through the whole album transversely.
Even though the huge production struggles, the second Ensamble Desmembrado`s album took only 6 months to record. As it shouldn`t have been in a different way and continuing with the tradition set out on the first delivery, he offers us a full concept album. Even if this time each of its parts is identified as independent tracks, one can quickly understand that each one of them nourishes, is based and justifies its existence on the rest of the album. When listening to this recording as a whole, the listener will understand how each of the parts depends on the others and that the interaction of the different sound elements that echo here and there all over the album offer a sound landscape where a loop to the infinity is created.
One more time, “field recordings” provided the sound palette for the project. Coloured by an abrasive and piercing sound à la Swans and by an hypnotic cadenza taken from some ethnic music`s tribal mantra, the horizons of the metropolis` sounds expand and the limits for what we conceive as “noise” are blurred. For the first time in Gustavo Madrid`s career, the biggest influence comes from the devotional observation of “remix” albums and the possibilities that electronic musicians find on digital audio edition software to manage to divide, cut, server, slice, mutilate, alter and manipulate sounds to open up to new expressive boundaries.
Gustavo
Gustavo Madrid is the creative force behind several musical projects since his school days: No Mercy, Black Velvet, Maten al Disc-Jockey, Su Real Orden, 69 am, Mutantes Melancólicos, Asustados Unidos, NO:ID., Ensamble Desmembrado and finally Madrid Solo.
Singer. Guitar player. Sometimes, keyboard player. With a certain interest in digital instruments, where he finds versatility and the possibility of breaking through. Always, songwriter and composer of a music hard to put a label on.
Even though he's got soft manners and a good education, he´s rampant, stubborn and untameable. He can be bored of his successes, but he's never bored when he explores and experiments new ways of making music. He prefers a song composed on a single loop rather than a song that repeats past accomplishments.
On his lyrics he doesn't want to tell stories; he leaves that to a short story or to a novel. For his songs, he prefers sentences that act like lashes, images, ideas; that are musical, without a complete or obvious sense and, if it's possible, the ones that can awaken questions to be left unanswered.
Madrid owns an enviable record collection. He listens to music since he wakes up in the morning until he goes back to bed at night. He has been collecting records since his teenage years. He affirms that when he didn't have enough money to buy new records he tried hard to get onto busses or subways without paying the fare; so he could save, within a couple of weeks, some money to buy another record.
One of his passions is record cover art. He believes that the moment he takes out the record from the sleeve to put it on the audio system is pure magic and that most of that magic comes from the graphic art giving sense to the whole oeuvre.
In 2020, during the pandemic lock-down, he started recollecting some writings on his experiences with music listening, music creation and record collecting on the blog:
https://memoriasdeunsonivoro.blogspot.com/
Ensamble Desmembrado on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Ensamble.Desmembrado
MAD RIDE RECORDS WEB-SITE in spanish:
https://mad-ride-records.blogspot.com/
ALBUM CREDITS:
Composed, performed, edited, produced and recorded at El Rosario from February to July 2021 by Gustavo Madrid with the invaluable collaboration from Felipe Madrid and Abel Raimundini on wild an untamed metallic percussion; from Jorge Pablo Almejún, Hugo Díaz, Christophe Gallien, Alejandro Diez del Valle, Juan Ignacio Ferreres, Diego Carreño and Cristian Alberto López on timeless, spontaneous, intuitive, cutting, visceral and sanguine spoken word interpretation.
Digital release on the 28th of January 2022.
Track listing:
1:Arrastra una plegaria
2: Se estanca una lagrima reseca
3: Llega para volver a empezar
4: Multitud en soledad
5: Retumba aquel incesante lamento miserable
6: Palabras para que se lleve el viento
7: Sin tormento ni latido
8: Tres minutos de espera
9: Nadie escapa
