Oriol Perucho - Asi pasan 45 minutos
“Avant-garde music played by real musicians, for a change.” I don’t know anything else about Oriol Perucho, except that they play great music. At times, it sounds like one of my top 5 favorite albums of this decade, Bang on a Can’s Renegade Heaven. Other times, it sounds like Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica. Or Jasun Martz’s The Pillory / The Battle. Or The Boredoms. At one point, like “Jazz Odyssey”, from Audio Adrenaline’s Bloom. Most of the time, it sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before, but it’s always fascinating. My own experience with this kind of music is like my experience with jazz: I have no idea what’s going on, but I love hearing the music tumble over itself endlessly, always giving me something fresh. This type of music is difficult to analyze, critique, or describe, but: ah, hell, if it weren’t for Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor, this would be my favorite piece of music on Free Albums Galore yet!
The tracks are available as 128kbps MP3s and a full-album zip via the Internet Archive. Additional info at Hazard Records.
beautiful album. to me, it sounds like mauricio kagel in some moments and like the residents in some others, with a little tortoise component here and there.
Comment by lanark — October 25, 2005 @ 9:52 pm
Hey - someone else has heard of Audio Adrenaline! I remember Jazz Odyssey, lol.
This avante garde stuff isn’t my type of thing though…
Thanks for the most awesome blog on the net, btw.
Laters…
Comment by bahgheera — October 25, 2005 @ 9:52 pm
lanark: I haven’t heard mauricio kagel, but the other two descriptions seem to fit, too!
bahgheera: what is your type of thing?
Comment by Luke — October 26, 2005 @ 5:57 pm
Oriol Perucho is not a “they” but a he, a percussionist who lives in Barcelona. That’s Oriol on the inside cover.
Comment by richard — July 2, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
Is it supposed to sound kind of blotchy, as if somebody kept fiddling with the volume while it was recording?
Comment by Lethe — September 16, 2008 @ 1:45 pm