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Reviriego, Alex

Raben [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD]

Reviriego, Alex: Raben [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes)

Spanish double bassist Alex Reviriego (Memoria Uno) in a solo album recorded by Ferran Fages in 2019, the second chapter of his "German Poets Trilogy" following his 2018 Blaue Tauben album, here inspired by the writings of Romanian-born poet Paul Celan in an intense and moving album of dense foreboding depicted through nine improvisations of heavy bowing, ruminative harmonics and dark friction.
 

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Label: Tripticks Tapes
Catalog ID: TTT007
Squidco Product Code: 31084

Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: USA
Packaging: Cassette
Recorded at V20, in Winter, 2019, by Ferran Fages. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
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Alex Reviriego is a Spanish double bassist known for the groups Memoria Uno with Agusti Fernandez, Phicus, Pindio, Völga, and Alguns Homes Bons.

-Squidco 6/10/2026

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