Triángulos de Luz y Espacios de Sombra cover

Triángulos de Luz y Espacios de Sombra

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On July 11, 1991, an ambitious concert of experimental electronic and progressive music took place in Mexico City featuring a bill of the scene’s most ambitious composers. The date was no accident, as it was during a solar eclipse. So it’s fitting that Tri​á​ngulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra, a heady compilation looking back on this particularly fecund era in Mexican music some thirty years later saw release during the most recent solar eclipse in North America. The 17 tracks compiled in this set find its artists in a curious space, not only looking back at the sorts of progressive rock music that emanated from Europe in the 1970s but even further into the past, envisioning what the music of the indigenous Mesoamerican people might have sounded like before the Spaniards and their germs wholly obliterated such cultures. Prehispanic instrumentation became the forté of artists like Antonio Zepeda and Jorge Reyes. Zepeda’s collaborations, with the likes of Reyes but also Eugenio Toussaint and Eblen Macari are clear highlights, reimagining and recasting ancient rituals at the end of the 20th century, yet every selection here still sounds like a possible future where indigenous ritual and modern circuitry might still coexist.

Andy Beta

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