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Limbo Ensemble: Limbo (Creative Sources)

A fascinating confluence of improvisation and contemporary compositional approaches from this Spanish ensemble led by composer and drummer Nasim Lopez Palacios, using 5 reeds, trumpet, flute, piano, electric guitar, harp, double bass, drums and electronics in an extended work exploring space, tension and motion, with a beautiful build to catharsis.
 

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Pau Torres-soprano saxophone

Jon Zufiaurre-tenor saxophone

Pablo Maza-tenor saxophone

Eolo Andino-alto saxophone

Mario Martinez-bass clarinet

Victor Vega-trumpet

Josu Ferreras-flute

Franco Cavalleri-piano

Nico Martin-electric guitar

Liz Freon-harp

Ledian Mola-double bass

Nacho Soto-electronics

Nasim Lopez Palacios-drums, composition


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UPC: 5609063406047

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs604
Squidco Product Code: 27613

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Mecca Recording Studio, in Oiarzun, Spain, on July 21st, 2018, by Mikel Ezeiza.

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"Limbo.

Out of nowhere. The silence. The mute busy space.

From interrupted silence, tension and progressive movement, towards a very high Sonora Plateau.

The concept of limbo appears as catharsis, textural sound mass with total emotional and sensory involvement in the shared common space.

The ritual as an act of collective involvement and structured actions that cause the situation of sensory catharsis, is key to understanding the work in its development.

The structure of the acts and the process (Space / time) as a journey to ascend to the Sonora Plateau and establish in it the essential time to understand that the reason for its finiteness is due to its infinity.

The Sonora Plateau is reduced to a small sample of that state that seems to transcend time.

Once that state comes, there are phenomena that influence the evolution of spontaneous actions, which in that situation act with total independence and autonomy, revealing states of conscious and unconscious creation, as well as the fusion between physical and metaphysical experience.

The impact of this situation and ephemeral experience in the being makes it clear from rational codes, bringing thought to other territories."-Limbo Ensemble, Translated by Facebook


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Artist Biographies

Pau Torres, aka Lngtché, is a Spanish saxophonist known for the bands Kamtchatka, and Limbo Ensemble. He also runs the Barcelona, Spain based label Etude Records, founded in 2006 and focused on experimental and obscure sound archives. Etude records presents artists including Mike Hansen, Augusti Martinez, Tomasz Krakowiak, Lngtche, Ferran Fages, Robert Millis and Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

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Jon Zufiaurre is a saxophonist known for the bands The Mousehunters and Limbo Ensemble.

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Pablo Maza is a Spanish saxophonist known for the bands The Titanians and Limbo Ensemble.

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Eolo Andino is a Spanish saxophonist, known for Albericola, Limbo Ensemble, Guridi Txiki Big Band.

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Mario Martinez is a Spanish clarinetist known for the band Limbo Ensemble.

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V’ctor Vega (Sevilla, 1981) After starting music in a self-taught way and participating in multiple international seminars, he obtains the highest degree of jazz trumpet in the Basque Country. He has played and / or recorded with artists such as El Lebrijano, Ricardo Moreno, Alba Molina, Oscar Marchioni and the Reunion big band (directed by Perico Sambeat). He also studied at Musikene (Higher School of Music of the Basque Country. He is known for his own Victor Vega Quartet, Swingpapers, and Limbo Ensemble.

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"Josu Ferreras Zulueta from Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain: Professor and interpreter in the specialty of Flute Travesera.

At the moment I have finished the upper studies of the flute in the Superior Center of Music of the Basque Country (Musikene) by Miguel Ángel Angulo, Bruno Claverie and Álvaro Octavio, who also gives me piccolo lessons.

I have attended many specialization courses and master classes with prestigious professors such as Silvia Careddu (Soloist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor of the Hochschule "Hanns Eiler" in Berlin), Juliette Hurel (Rotterdam Music School and Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra ), Kate Hill (Royal Academy of Music), Irmela Boßler (Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig), Robert Winn (Professor at the Cologne School of Music), Álvaro Octavio (National Orchestra of Spain), Javier Castiblanque (Professor in the upper center of Granada) and others.

I have collaborated with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS) and I have performed under the baton of directors such as Eduardo Portal, Péter Eötvös, Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, Pedro Halffter, Johan de Meij, Arturo Tamayo, Erik Nielsen, Geoffrey Paterson, Andrea Cazzaniga , Andrés Valero-Castells, etc. I have also recorded a soundtrack for an award-winning film at the prestigious "Zinemaldia" film festival in Spain."

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Franco Cavalleri is a Spanish pianist, known for the groups Trío Larun, Albericola, and Limbo Ensemble.

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Nico Martin is a Spanish guitarist, known for the bands Million-Dollar Haircuts on Ten-Cent Heads and Limbo Ensemble.

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Liz Freon is a Spanish harpist who performs in contemporary and unusual settings for the harp. She has studied at Musikene, the Higher Music Center of Euskadi She is a member of Zormai Threesome, The Alborada Pair, and Limbo Ensemble.

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Ledian Mola is a bassist and violinist from Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain. He has a Baccalaureate in Improvisation Method from Jazz Cultural Theatre, and studied at Contrabajo jazz, Contrabajo Jazz, Cursando, and studied with Cuban composer and violinist Amadeo Roldán.

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Nacho Soto is a Spanish electronic musician known for the band Limbo Ensemble.

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Nasim López-Palacios Navarro born Nov 27th, 1992 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, is a drummer, percussionist and composer. He is known for the bands Andi Deris and The Bad Bankers, Million Dollar Haircuts on Ten Cent Heads, and Limbo Ensemble.

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1. Limbo 27:45

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