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RELEASE DATE: 6/27/2025
Buh Records presents the release of Cello in My Life, the new album by the renowned Ecuadorian composer Mesías Maiguashca. This deeply personal work reflects an intimate exploration of the relationship between the cello and the artist's life, realized in collaboration with celebrated cellist Gaby Schumacher. The album features six remarkable compositions spanning Maiguashca's career from 1972 to 2015. Each piece offers a unique perspective on his groundbreaking approach to music, blending acoustic and electronic elements to create an immersive sound experience. Highlights include: "Übungen" (1972-73): A fascinating dialogue between cello and synthesizer, performed by Gaby Schumacher and Maiguashca himself. "Lindgren" (1973): A haunting composition for cello and magnetic tape. "El Oro" (1992): A meditation on cultural collisions between the Old and New Worlds, featuring flute, cello, and spoken word. "The Spirit Catcher" (1993): An evocative piece inspired by the writings of Carlos Castañeda, combining cello and electronics. "unvermindert weiter" (1993): A duet for cello and accordion that highlights the interplay between the two instruments. "por el yasuní" (2015): A poignant commentary on the protests to protect Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, featuring violin, cello, and electronic textures. This release also marks the second collaboration between Maiguashca and Buh Records, following the critically acclaimed 2021 collection Música para cinta magnética (+) instrumentos (1967?1989). Cello in My Life stands as a testament to Maiguashca's enduring legacy as one of the most significant voices in contemporary and experimental music from Latin America. The album's intricate soundscapes and profound themes promise to captivate both long-time admirers and new listeners alike. Set for release on February 28, 2025, the album will be available on digital platforms and as a physical CD edition. This milestone in Maiguashca's discography further cements his reputation as a pivotal figure in the realm of contemporary and experimental music from Latin America.
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Mesías Maiguashca is a relevant figure on the map of contemporary avant-garde composers. Born in Ecuador but currently based in Germany, he has been a composer who, since the '60s, would constantly expand his possibilities in fields such as electronic music (where he stands out as a pioneer), mixed works, expanded interdisciplinary pieces and the creation of unconventional instruments, where the encounter between his country of origin's popular folkloric tradition and the new European music has produced a universe of tension, as fascinating as it is startling. Música Para Cinta Magnética (+) Instrumentos (1967-1989) presents for the first time a sample of the essential work of Maiguashca, covering a period that goes from 1967 to 1989. This is the first of a new collection, a new series of albums that seeks to document the extensive recorded work of Maiguashca, with pieces that date from the mid-60s to the present. This first release is a good introduction to understand the various aesthetic options developed by the artist throughout his career. It includes his historical pieces of electronic music, such as "El mundo en que vivimos" (1967) or "Ayayayayay" (1971), which are early references for electronic music in Latin America, and also mixed pieces, such as "Intensidad y altura" (1979) for six percussionists and magnetic tape, "The wings of perception" (1989) for a string quartet and tape, and "Nemos Orgel" (1989) for organ and magnetic tape. Mesías Maiguashca studied at the Quito Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.), the Di Tella Institute (Buenos Aires) and the Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne). He has made recordings at the WDR music studio (Cologne), Center Européen pour la Recherche Musicale (Metz), the IRCAM (Paris), the Acroe (Grenoble) and the ZKM (Karlsruhe). In 1988, together with Roland Breitenfeld, he founded the K.O.Studio Freiburg, a private initiative for the cultivation of experimental music. He has been living in Freiburg since 1996. Mastering: Alberto Cendra at Garden Lab Audio. Design by Martín Escalante. Includes photos and detailed information on the pieces; Liner notes by Mesías Maiguashca and Fabiano Kueva; edition of 300.
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First-ever official reissue of the Ecuadorian composer Mesías Maiguashca's stunning electroacoustic composition Oeldorf 8 on vinyl and CD. Mesías Maiguashca (b. December 24th, 1938 in Quito/Ecuador) is a composer of neue musik, especially electroacoustic music, who studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (1958-65), with Alberto Ginastera at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and, after a short return to Ecuador, attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966-67 where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1968 to 1972, Maiguashca worked closely with Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and joined Stockhausen's ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka. In 1971 he became a founding member of the Oeldorf Group of composers and performers. The Oeldorf Group, named after the small village 40 km away from Cologne where they lived and worked in a rented farmhouse where they set up their own studio for electronic music and studio productions, was a musicians' collective active during the 1970s. Thanks to a long-standing contact with the Westdeutscher Rundfund, the core members of the Oeldorf Group (Peter Eötvös, Joachim Krist, Mesías Maiguashca, and Gaby Schumacher) received commissions for compositions, invitations to perform in the Musik der Zeit concert series, as well as having many of their summer concerts recorded for the late-night broadcasts of WDR3. One of these commissioned compositions was Oeldorf 8: a retrospective portrait of the Oeldorf Group consisting of a series of ten short pieces for four instrumentalists (clarinet, violin, cello, electric organ/synthesizer) and tape which may be played either simultaneously or continuously without a break. It premiered in 1974 at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and was released on LP two years later. Conceived as a sonic diary with an edge to encompass radical electronic synthesis, the 48-minute composition is a thing of wonder; from the outset, Maiguashca's spoken introduction of the players and concept gets slowly eroded by errant, pointillist electronic sound -- which then lets loose for ten minutes before a swarm of slowly rising held tones comes to the fore. On the second side, the acoustic sounds are annihilated by a rising pulse-wave drone, an almost Roland Kayn-esque climax of raw oscillator gristle. Remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. LP version comes on 180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve; includes download code.
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LP version. 180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve; includes download code. First-ever official reissue of the Ecuadorian composer Mesías Maiguashca's stunning electroacoustic composition Oeldorf 8 on vinyl and CD. Mesías Maiguashca (b. December 24th, 1938 in Quito/Ecuador) is a composer of neue musik, especially electroacoustic music, who studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (1958-65), with Alberto Ginastera at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and, after a short return to Ecuador, attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966-67 where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1968 to 1972, Maiguashca worked closely with Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and joined Stockhausen's ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka. In 1971 he became a founding member of the Oeldorf Group of composers and performers. The Oeldorf Group, named after the small village 40 km away from Cologne where they lived and worked in a rented farmhouse where they set up their own studio for electronic music and studio productions, was a musicians' collective active during the 1970s. Thanks to a long-standing contact with the Westdeutscher Rundfund, the core members of the Oeldorf Group (Peter Eötvös, Joachim Krist, Mesías Maiguashca, and Gaby Schumacher) received commissions for compositions, invitations to perform in the Musik der Zeit concert series, as well as having many of their summer concerts recorded for the late-night broadcasts of WDR3. One of these commissioned compositions was Oeldorf 8: a retrospective portrait of the Oeldorf Group consisting of a series of ten short pieces for four instrumentalists (clarinet, violin, cello, electric organ/synthesizer) and tape which may be played either simultaneously or continuously without a break. It premiered in 1974 at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and was released on LP two years later. Conceived as a sonic diary with an edge to encompass radical electronic synthesis, the 48-minute composition is a thing of wonder; from the outset, Maiguashca's spoken introduction of the players and concept gets slowly eroded by errant, pointillist electronic sound -- which then lets loose for ten minutes before a swarm of slowly rising held tones comes to the fore. On the second side, the acoustic sounds are annihilated by a rising pulse-wave drone, an almost Roland Kayn-esque climax of raw oscillator gristle. Remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.
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