Ascendit In Inferno, by Diego Caicedo

Ascendit In Inferno

by Diego Caicedo

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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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1.	Acústic I 04:49	buy track
2.	Eléctric I 07:20	buy track
3.	Acústic II 05:33	buy track
4.	Eléctric II 07:22	buy track
5.	Acústic III 06:13	buy track
6.	Eléctric III 07:58	buy track

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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.

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