“All we stay alive upon lots of ruins and debris. We do it upon geolical strata that lasted million years to agglomerate as well as upon intangibles and material manifestations of cultures blown with the wind. But, is it ‘upon’ the proper word to this matter? In a country like ours, that clearly has a mestizo origin, the level of uprooting and ignorance of our roots exhibited by the most of its people is remarkable. The same people who daily uses place names and native roots words without a bit of conscious of its original meaning.
Actually, the new Mika Martini‘s release is very deep in thought, and it’s not meant to be an anthropological work but it did felt its first taste inside the recordings of Yagán people tales behind Ursula Calderón‘s voice, which are recorded by Lluvia Acida, the magellan duet, and heard at the album ‘Kuluana‘ (pncd05 / 2009), in which Mika Martini featured as producer an live musician. As he told us, he’s got a kind of ‘negative soundcast‘, one that didn’t make it intelligible though, it triggered a though anyway: the impossibility of completely understanding an ancient and closer-to-Nature cosmovision than ours.
Five performances across two days including Eli Keszler's semi-sculptural performance installations and rapid-fire percussive attack, John Wiese's electroacoustic music emphasizing the mixing desk as a true instrument and the debut ...