Description
Release Date Friday 8th November 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
“Viator” is as skeletal as it is instantly recognizable. Following the inception of the unmistakable post-power electronics cubist-Latin-blues that kept Adrián de Alfonso busy during his Don The Tiger days, the first album under his own name is a ruthless step forward into a new form of avant-garde balladry, raw and stripped down, poetic yet enchanting, anchored in a sort of stubborn and repetitive primitivism, which synthesizes the future rituals of a stateless tradition.
"Viator" consists mainly of a series of frayed ballads and deformed instrumental miniatures, underpinned by the heavy swing that intertwines Adrian de Alfonso's lyrical coplera vocals and improviser Mike Majkowski's rubbery double bass, which is often drained of its acoustic nature through computer and tape manipulations. The record takes on an extra sheen from the slow heels of crooked dancer Siri Salminen, the murmuring choir composed of Víctor Herrero, Lorena Álvarez and Marcos Flórez, and the arachnid shreds of de Alfonso's unamplified midi guitar.
This is material that draws deeply on flamenco, copla, bolero, tango and sardana, but is transfigured into the uncanny by Adrián's relentless use of FM transmission, unhinged sampling/midi techniques, musique concrète outbursts, stripped-down chanting and outlandish operatic procedures. “Viator”- traveller in Latin - was recorded with a bunch of piezos and cheap mics (sometimes with the window open) in de Alfonso's bedroom in Berlin, in a bathroom (without vents) in the Alpujarra of Granada and in some desert locations around Almería, which allows for an incessant crossfading through time, spaces and membranes. A traveller on the rise, not just flowing through, permeating the space with a new found awareness.
Tracklist
1. Esquejes de un buen samán
2. Pleamar
3. Arden
4. Verde virguero
5. Remeje
6. ¡Repliéguese la guardia toda!
7. Nido de sierpes
8. La tromba exacta
9. Coyuntura en el manglar
10. A vueltas con el paregórico
11. Postrer ciclón
12. La cara estúpida del ritmo
13. Voladura
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