Music from Spain

Awesome 3 x LP box (plus a 7" and a t-shirt): Two Lp’s of the box with Diez Años double cassette ( a collection of unreleased tracks of the eighties with some tracks of  compilations.) The third Vinyl will include: AVANCE RAPIDO (from La Zona Compilation) FUNGUS CEREBRI (from Sinn und Form) RASKIN (from 80´s Tracks) MAXIMO RENDIMIENTO(from 80´Tracks) PRIMERA TUNDRA (from 80´Tracks)TRANS UNMMA (from 80´sTracks) and the superb Live Performance of 87 from the special Bruitiste Box-Set. The 7“ conta…

Another installment from the Fario label in their attempt to bring together two artists. Usually these CDs consist of three tracks: one  collaborative track and one by each artist solo. For this fifth CD two Vital Weekly household names show up: Francisco Lopez and Steve Roden. Let is discuss the solo pieces first. In Roden's solo piece, the rubbing and playing of everyday objects is the central point of attention. It seems an extension to his work 'Schindler House', which was released last year…

Using field recordings made in Brussels together with TRMX, Johan Vandermaelen, Martiens Go Home, and Building Transmissions, López mutates and records these into an intense 73 minute composition that takes the sounds of a city and transforms them into a interior landscape, a city within.

Specially re-mixed material Francisco Lopez created for the dance work, Geography, by the The Ralph Lemon Dance Co. which premiered at Yale in New Haven. At the time Francisco already had established himself as an important new composer working with huge pools of silence that then build in time stretching waves of sonic purity. This work is certainly in the vein but there’s also subtle percussive elements woven in, drawn from an African percussion ensemble that performed live during the perfor…

On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an instrum…

Francisco López's Absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: Alain Wergifosse, Albert Mestre, Antón Ignorant, Carlos Medina, César Góngora, Christian Dergarabedian, Daniel Menche, Ferrán Fages, Francisco López, Games Addiction, Ilios, Io casino, Joe Colley, Jorge Haro, Koji Asano, Masami Akita, Mego laptop orchestra, Michael Gendreau, Michael Northam, Oren Ambarchi, Philippe Faujas, Roc Jiménez, Ruben García, Russell Haswell, Shunichiro Okada, Víctor Nubla, Zbigniew Karkowski, Zipperspy, Alan Co…

With his ongoing pursuit of an 'absolute concrète music,' Francisco López has recontextualized the sounds of the world around us by pushing these sounds to their polar extremes. At times, he has imposed gaping silences and eradicated all but the slightest traces of musicality; at others, he has turned the placid wash of rainforest insect chatter into mechanically toxic drones and twisted a gentle breeze into a hurricane force blast of raw sound. The ambient din of the urban environment, human vo…