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Wallace / Vazquez / Von Schultz

Siesta

Wallace / Vazquez / Von Schultz: Siesta (577 Records)

Recorded during an ambitious 15-day, 14-show European tour, this debut from pianist Eli Wallace, bassist Pablo Vazquez, and drummer Marcelo von Schultz captures the spontaneous chemistry of a trio forged in motion, weaving explosive rhythmic interplay, extended techniques, and melodic nuance into a vibrant and unpredictable tapestry of creative improvisation.
 

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Eli Wallace-piano, objects

Pablo Vazquez-double bass

Marcelo von Schultz-drums

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UPC: 755491338698

Label: 577 Records
Catalog ID: CD-577R-5973
Squidco Product Code: 36029

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Kuhlspot Social Club, in Berlin, Germany, on May 13th, 2024, by Gustavo Obligado.
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"Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, leading his own projects, collaborating with other like-minded artists, and co-curating the interdisciplinary performance series Invocation with Drew Wesely. His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, free improvisation studies, and extensive piano preparation, while his compositions employ notational strategies to broaden the manner in which sounds are created and the ways in which musicians interact. Over the past decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and has performed at such esteemed venues as The Stone, New York, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, and the Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA."

-Eli Wallace Website (https://eliwallacemusic.com/)
12/9/2025

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"Pablo Vazquez is a double bassist from Buenos Aires, Argentina"

-Squidco 12/9/2025

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"Marcelo von Schultz (Argentina, 1976) musician, drummer and teacher. Coming from the scene of jazz and creative music from the West (Dervish, Doña Marìa, Antü) for several years is devoted to the exploration and development of improvised music and free jazz.

He has recorded two albums with Catriel Nievas, Dùo (2014) and Tùneles (2016), both edited by the Argentine label Isla Visión and by the French label Adaptador Records.

Currently he continues playing in Dervish and is part of the trio Haiti, along with Cecilia Quinteros and Sergio Merce, a duo with Hernán Samá and the Mokita quartet with Cecilia Quinteros, Christoph Gallio and Alex Elgier.

As a teacher he dictates the subject Afro-Latin Percussion of the chair of battery at the School of Art of Luján (Prov. Of Buenos Aires)."

-Marcelo von Schultz Website (Translated by Google) (https://marcelovonschultz.wordpress.com/about/)
12/9/2025

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