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Transparent-white cassettes in cases, dubbed and assembled in Barcelona. Duochrome covers. Each copy is unique and numbered by hand. Track order is reversed compared to digital (Eléctric/Acústic). Unlimited edition.
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From the deepest underground of Barcelona comes Diego Caicedo, a skilled improvising guitarist whose work is inspired by extreme metal.
Born and raised in Colombia, Diego learned guitar at an early age taking private lessons from local teachers and later went to university to study composition under cult Colombian composer Blas Emilio Atehortúa (1943–2020) before moving to Barcelona to attend Conservatori Liceu, an important institution in the Catalan and Spanish music world.
Caicedo’s uncompromising vision is rooted in non-idiomatic guitar improvisation and medieval, choral, and contemporary music, with dissonant chords and structures borrowed from death metal. On “Ascendit In Inferno,” he was challenged to play acoustic guitar for the first time on record, so the recording is divided into two parts (Acústic/Eléctric). While the acoustic pieces have a dark, haunted, almost gothic quality, they are interrupted by electric parts. Those are more of Diego’s trademark sound and venture into a Japanese-influenced wall of noise, with Caicedo injecting metal rods into his guitar. RIYL Keiji Haino at his most violent.
Diego Caicedo lives and teaches guitar in Barcelona and frequently plays and co-curates Nocturna Discordia - a weekly Barcelona event dedicated to free improvisation with a legendary status in the city’s avant scene. It is home to such musicians as Diego himself, Vasco Trilla, Àlex Reviriego, Tom Chant, Liba Villavecchia, et al.
“Hideousness and beauty are contained within each other. This prodigious paradox, in all its absurdity, leavens life itself, and in art makes that wholeness in which harmony and tension are unified.”
⏤ Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Sculpting in Time”
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released May 16, 2023
Diego Caicedo: acoustic and electric guitars
Recorded by the artist in Barcelona, 2022. Mixing, mastering, artwork by Ivan Zoloto.
Released by School of the Arts in 2023.
Cat. no. SOTA116.
supported by 8 fans who also own “Ascendit In Inferno”
Definitely different from his more recent collaboratively ethereal and leisurely LP's, this is a crepitating, sparsely textured album that sounds like a peregrine mixture of Whitehouse eeriness, Diamanda Galas, and the first Sonic Youth LP if it was played by Jandek. A fascinating LP that is best played at very loud volumes lying on the sofa after a few Fernet Branca's. brantly
supported by 6 fans who also own “Ascendit In Inferno”
Deep, mind-bending psych. I don't know how it was put together, but it feels very organic, like early Nurse With Wound. I could see Gordon, Dilloway, and Nace sitting among a pile of junk and miles of tape, splicing together this album piece by piece. Levrikon
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A really exciting album: each track is a universe in a nutshell. it's really hard to pick a favourite.
I recommend the tape to get the "whole picture ", sonically speaking. psy_collab
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I can't get through any new Bill Orcutt record without getting excited, but here he has gone one step further. Can we talk about invoking the spirit of counterpoint now? jiristepan