April 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

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LA TIFA DELS 7 DIES

'... the two sides of the power of God.
The armed party is the vengeful god,

He who punishes.

And the sword in his hand

is the weapon used to punish

those who leave the right path. Part devoid of armor is one that represents the goodness and understanding, One That Is All right ... '

What would sound a sort of gospel of Igualada, Cardona, Calanda Maru, with the rise and illuminated verbigracia our priests and nuns, we have sought for so many, so many years? And what if it were executed in a post-industrial era to return a deposit down on our hands old transistors and valves as the only viable technology?

25HOMBRES questions but provides no answers. 25HOMBRES is not a band or anything like that. Is an entity that makes radio, that have programs here and there, and that made few direct interventions. The latter had been in the LEM, 2007, and was the best of that issue. Why are here then? Because working with sound and face a él de una manera muy particular. A no pocos músicos les iría bien escucharlos.

Imaginemos que tenemos el silencio frente a nosotros como se tiene una cuartilla en blanco o un cuadro vacío. Mejor aún, no el silencio sino el ruido ambiente X. Si se quiere hacer algo habrá que apartarlo. Toda actuación es una agresión a ese medio ambiente acústico. Entonces, hay que llenar ese plano en el que no hay nada. ¿Cómo lo hacen 25HOMBRES? Pues a partir del lenguaje radiofónico, del arte sonoro, de la electrónica más ruda. Pequeñas limaduras musicales y vocales son atraídas hasta ellos por su imán. No hay ningún concepto instrumental, even when it is electrified acoustic guitar arpeggios. Their proposal is actually a program (radio, or Will and Representation, individually chosen what).

Normally open and close their emission-situations with something then recovered to close them. In this way are perfectly framed (as well as help set the duration). It can be music or a wedge. In this case it was a kind of folk song in Catalan with stink congregation. Among the briefing and collection, this theme suggests that narcotic languor which serves the religion. Catholicism is in the spotlight 25HOMBRES, but always almost always. The thing starts up and begin to structure the wedge issue, this time long, priests or believers ends (where the hell does will draw the material?). People talk about the guilt and power, usually victimized in some inexplicable way and disturbing. I guess that is what all the "mystery." Among these, suitably dispersed, an ether of sounds that do not want to invest it with any musical quality but want to get inside the listener. Reverberation, ringing, funds cosmic angelic voice is raised, a howler of metal, ropes have been tainted. Reasons, many of them subliminal influence to be perceived in environment and general coloration. Except for carrying burning incense from time before and a ring projection showing a kind of alphabet unknown (hieroglyphics depending on how they overlap), not relied on anything external. They move around with very good hearing. As a spectator you wondered if it was music or not, but you said to yourself, "that either are filling this gap in which I find" the hole that was previously built by the silence more little voices, laughter, glasses and bottles ... too ordinary right?

The conclusion is that the old radio art in general, could be of great help to many musicians who also face this disturbing thing white and empty. Today, with all of that paradigm upside-down, if no choice but to work with notions of spatiality, organization, noise, etc., It would at least try to do well.

One last thing. In addition to various radio programs they do or they're involved, every two weeks inviting musicians to play live at its "The Des-25HOMBRES dates" in Radio Contrabanda of Barcelona. They have been there, among many others, people like Francisco López, Pablo Rega, Mr. Hubba and Mono Inventor, Dargelos, Christopher Williams and Alfredo Costa Monteiro. From what I've seen, there are no restrictive, ie it could be someone with a sound, or with two saxophones, or a laptop, provided, of course, do not platitudes or conventional things. But for all this, here are their blogs for anyone who wishes to consult, contact them or access their particular world.

http://25hombres.blogspot.com/

http://desconciertos25hombres.blogspot.com/