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Jimenez, Pablo

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Jimenez, Pablo: Objeto (Tour de Bras)

A solo double bass album from Colombian-born, Montreal-based improviser Pablo Jiménez, recorded at the Conservatory of Music in Montreal in 2024, where his imaginative use of extended techniques and deep engagement with improvisation reveal a distinctive personal language that merges avant and contemporary traditions into a striking and sensitive exploration of the instrument.
 

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Label: Tour de Bras
Catalog ID: TDB9000084cd
Squidco Product Code: 36774

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Canada
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at the Conservatory of Music, in Montreal, Canada, in January, 2024, by Julian Meneses.
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"Pablo Jiménez is a double bassist and composer born in Bogota and based in Montreal. Using improvisation as a profound creative engine, his work seeks to establish a rigorous musical language based on movement. He frequently collaborates with ensembles and musicians from the current and contemporary music scene in Quebec and Canada, including Ensemble SuperMusique, Malcolm Goldstein, Lori Freedman, and Scott Thomson. He has performed and participated in festivals such as the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, Suoni per il Popolo, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he studied with Anthony Braxton and performed his music."

-Quatuor Bozzini (Translated by Google) (https://quatuorbozzini.ca/en/artiste/jimenez_pa)
12/3/2025

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