Kagel: "Acustica" (Vinyl) [2LP]

Album #2 of the brand new vinyl series with pioneering recordings of the musical avant-garde. Mauricio Kagel's Acustica, composed for experimental sound generators and loudspeakers, is one of his most radical works most radical works. It combines electro-acoustic tape material with acoustic performances and embodies Kagel's idea of instrumental theater, in which sound, gestures and the presence of the performers merge into a single musical act. The work explores an expanded field of musicality and uses invented instruments to liberate sound from traditional performance conventions. The multiplicity of global sound sources reflects the diversity of his childhood in Buenos Aires, transforming chaos into playful order and emphasizing the autonomy of each individual performer within a collective whole. With Acustica, Kagel created a unique Latin American response to the European avant-garde: a living Avant-garde: a lively, democratic sound world full of inventiveness and humanity. Mastered and cut from the original analog ¼-inch 2-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios. Limited and numbered edition with original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector's cover with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, pressed on 180g vinyl.