


The first meeting of the quartet of electronic artist Miguel A. Garcia, accordionist Garazi Navas, double bassist Alex Reviriego and percussionist Vasco Trilla is this live performance at Convent de Sant Agusti, in Barcelona, using the natural resonance of the chapel to influence their introspective interactions of deep bass, evolving tones and mysterious percussive punctuations.
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Miguel A. Garcia-electronics
Garazi Navas-accordion
Alex Reviriego-double bass
Vasco Trilla-percussion
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Label: Tripticks Tapes
Catalog ID: TTT024
Squidco Product Code: 32652
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold In Plastic Sleeve
Recorded live at Convent de Sant Agusti, in Barcelona, Spain, by Pablo Miranda.
"Les Capelles documents the very first time Garazi Navas, Miguel Angel Garcia, Alex Reviriego and Vasco Trilla played together as a quartet. Carefully woven drones fill the reverberant space of the chapel, with the punctuating percussion recalling the bells from the neighboring church, and the subtle electronics adding an ethereal and mysterious touch.
Like the XIVth century religious building where it was recorded, now used as an arts performance space in the hip and tourist packed center of Barcelona, the music lives in a intermediate space between the archaic and the contemporary, with the traditional tones of the accordion merging with electronic feedback and extended string and percussion techniques.
Even if the meeting looks like a double duo affair (Garcia and Navas working as a duo in Doppelganger, Trilla and Reviriego long relation in dozens of projects), their paths crossed many times before, tracing an intriguing shared history: Reviriego playing along with Navas performing Garcia's electroacoustic compositions, Garcia inviting Trilla and Reviriego to perform at Zarata Fest on several occasions, the three of them performing and recording together as Ab'Bhau, Reviriego guesting in Doppelganger performances...and a personal friendship and deep artistic affinities threading it tight together. B
eautifully recorded by Pablo Miranda at the chapels of the Convent de Sant Agusti, this recording doesn't feel so much an impromptu meeting of four like-minded musicians as the product of a long gestation process."-TripTicks Tapes
"Les Capelles (the chapels) documents the very first performance of the Barcelona-based quartet of accordionist Garazi Navas, electronics Miguel Angel Garcia, double bass player Àlex Reviriego and percussionist Vasco Trilla. Reviriego and Trilla collaborated before in countless formats and bands, including Phicus, Liba Villavecchia Trio and the trio Tholos Gateway. Garcia and Navas relased last year a duo album Aleph / Illuminatus (Elctronic Reactions, 2021). But these four musicians crossed paths many times before: Reviriego played along with Navas when they performed Garcia's electroacoustic compositions; Garcia invited Trilla and Reviriego to perform at Zarata Festival on several occasions, and the three of them performed and recorded together in the Ab'Bhau quintet.
The quartet was recorded live at the XIVth century Convent de Sant Agustí, now an arts space in the center of Barcelona. The three pieces employ the reverberant space of the chapel as a decisive player in the quartet's nuanced, highly suggestive and cinematic drones, evoking a sense of irreverent but spiritual meditation. The quartet enjoys the punctuating percussion recalling the bells from the neighboring church and uses the ethereal electronics and accordion sounds as well as the extended techniques of Reviriego and Trilla to intensify the mysterious, timeless atmosphere. This quartet worked as a tight unit that developed slowly the carefully woven drones and colored them with darker, more enigmatic shades.
Tholos Gateway is the trio of Reviriego and Trilla with New York-based producer, recording engineer and electronics player Colin Martson and II follows the self-titled debut album of the trio, released in 2021 by Gusstaff Records. Martson mixed and mastered the album of Reviriego's Inhumankind duo and the project Bi Cong of Reviriego and Trilla, so the collaboration with him was natural and allowed Reviriego and Trilla to experiment with timbral explorations they have been developing together for years.
II offers eight atmospheric pieces that match experimental, extended techniques and subtle timbral searches of the acoustic double bass of Reviriego and the timpani, gongs and bells of Trilla with Martson's sonic explorations of the vintage electronic drums, guitar synth and mellotron. These patient pieces sketch far away, alien landscapes with often unsettling but cinematic sounds for a dramatic soundtrack to a mythical, sci-fi story (and Tholos means a circular structure, often a temple, of ancient Greece and ancient Rome).
American guitarist Mick Barr (who used before the services of Martson as a recording engineer) intensifies the mysterious atmosphere of "Alternate Aether" with insistent, cyclical patterns, while Reviriego's manic bowing on "Revenge Spectre" charges this piece with intense tension. Japanese Yoshiko Ohara (of the funeral doom metal band, Bloody Panda) adds powerful ritualist-shamanic vocals to the mysterious and cosmic "Consciousness Exorcism Seal". This fascinating journey ends with shiny, optimist lights with "Erased in the Air"."-Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
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• Show Bio for Miguel A. Garcia "Miguel A. García has been active for over two decades and with a discography that exceeds ten albums (presenting which he has toured Europe, America and Asia, performing at no less than the Issue Project Room in New York, the National Arts Centre in Mexico City, the Ftarri in Tokyo, the DOM Cultural Center in Moscow, the Église Saint-Merry in Paris or the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid), is a reference in experimental music and sound art, both for his work as a composer and for his career in the electroacoustic improvisation scene. During his career, the artist from Bilbao has collaborated with names such as Fernando Carvalho, Francisco López, Francisco Meirino, Ibon RG, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Juan Carlos Blancas or Seijiro Murayama, as well as curating events and festivals such as the Zarata Fest, the Hotsetan at Azkuna Zentroa or the legendary and extinct Club Le Larraskito. An immaculate career, in short, to which this work before us is now added. A double album with which the Basque artist has managed to lucidly convey the vital moment in which he finds himself and give shape to this timeless and genuinely avant-garde artistic artefact, called "Littentula". Like a modern Prometheus but using as raw material the documentation of his own capture processes (both for timbre synthesis and for composition), in this new album García signs an intimate and attractive invitation to sublimation, through pieces that are abstract by nature and that display a brutal sensitivity. A stimulating challenge, which has been orchestrated with musician friends of the stature of Garazi Gorostiaga, Enrike Hurtado and Garazi Navas in mind, who have turned his scores into a major work that transcends genres and is divided into two twin volumes, united by a new artificial beauty conceived from the genes of the old world. In the first album of "Littentula", García acts as the creator of an authentic sound stage, where the transmuted organic takes us back to the cycle of regeneration of nature. The four tracks that make up the album are developed from an intriguing metric of the beats, which manages to stimulate and expand our perception of the hidden face of the apparent. In the second, this pre-conscious logic ends up deriving into a kind of slow motion convulsion, a deafened, veiled, latent and strangely intense spasm, through which we come to intuit that the dawn and the dusk are manifested in the object of creation. A beautiful game of mirrors, with which Miguel A. García presents before us the most essential intrinsic double opposite: Life." ^ Hide Bio for Miguel A. Garcia • Show Bio for Garazi Navas • Show Bio for Alex Reviriego Alex Reviriego is a Spanish double bassist known for the groups Memoria Uno with Agusti Fernandez, Phicus, Pindio, Völga, and Alguns Homes Bons. ^ Hide Bio for Alex Reviriego • Show Bio for Vasco Trilla "Born in Barcelona, Vasco Trilla started playing drums at the age of nineteen. His first influences were progressive rock and metal, but gradually he developed an interest in a variety of different genres such as jazz, Indian music, African music, klezmer, free improvisation, etc. Since then he has collaborated, toured and recorded with many different bands and projects such as Boi Akih (an ethno-jazz band from the Netherlands), Planeta Imaginario (progressive jazz-rock) October Equus (avant-rock), The Oddvisers (pop-avant), Fine! (indie pop-rock), Mundo Flotante (ethno-jazz-rock), Kaulakau/Cobla Sant Jordi (an ethno-jazz Catalan orchestra), Filthy Habits Ensemble (a jazz octet playing Zappa's and Stravinsky's repertoire), Cows On Trees (a jazz-improv quartet with Susana Santos Silva and Kaja Draksler), Balimonster (an impro-ethno duo with Angel Ontalva), Yedo Gibson-Vasco Trilla duo (an improv sax & drums duo), Outerzone (jazz-core), Reptilian Mambo (mambo free rock), Liba's Traum, etc. In the last years he has been playing and experimenting on the free-improv scene, applying extended techniques to the kit and treating it as a textural-melodic instrument. Blowing, bowing, scratching, playing with hands and all kinds of objects, all is valid to expand the vocabulary of this innovative percussionist. He played with improvisers, such as: Lotte Anker, Marshall Allen, Yedo Gibson, Susana Santos Silva, Kaja Draksler, Jasper Stadhouders, Mikloaj Trzaska, Martin Kuchen, Richard Barrett, Jorma Tapio, Christher Bothen, Marc Stucki, Luc Ex. etc... He has released around 30 CDs in labels such as Cuneiform Records (USA), Altrock Records (Italy), Leo Records (UK) Discordian Records (Barcelona, Spain), Audition Records (Mexico), El Negocito Records (Belgium), Jacc Records (Portugal), Fmr Records (UK)." ^ Hide Bio for Vasco Trilla
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Track Listing:
1. I 12:44
2. II 4:03
3. III 5:47

Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Quartet Recordings
Recordings Utilizing the Natural Resonance of a Space
New in Improvised Music
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