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 01. "Wind Rose (Antrogofoko mokoir?n)" 02. "The Scribe (Tratado de Mpeg?)" 03. "Biankom?ko" 04. "Antillais (A Quint?n Bandera)" 05. "Aberis?n y Aberi??n" 06. "Seven, Through The Divination Horn" 07. "Stories Waiting To Be Told" 08. "Transmission" 09. "The Highest One" 10. "?f? (A Mar?a Teresa Vera)"
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| Description: | With Mb?k?, pianist-composer David Virelles - based now in New York but born and bred in Cuba - has taken the folkloric rhythms of Afro-Cuban religious ritual and transmuted them into a 21st-century music resonating with mystery and meaning. The main title, Mb?k?, can mean "fundament" or "sugar cane" or "The Voice, " not the human voice but the Voice that is believed in Abaku? culture to be the voice of a spirit, or spirits. Sound is an element revered in this culture, and that idea - the worship of sound itself - was a shaping force in the performances of Virelles' compositions on Mb?k?.The album's subtitle - Sacred Music for Piano, Two Basses, Drum Set and B iankom?ko Abaku? - indicates both the ritualistic intent of the 10 pieces & their sound, with piano as lead voice alongside dual bass drone and the polyrhythmic percussion of a traditional trap set and the all-important four-drum biankom?ko kit, manned by Rom?n Diaz. Virelles has tapped into a musical impulse that is simultaneously ancient and modern, communal and personal, meditative and propulsive. Mb?k? casts a spell.Mb?k?: Fundament. Sugar cane. The Voice.
Recorded December 2013
Avatar Studios, New York
Cultural resources: Rom?n D?az and Dr. Ivor Miller.
Thanks to Sarah Humphries, Rio Sakairi and The Jazz Gallery, Ravi Coltrane, Tomasz Stanko, Maurice Hogue, Eric McPherson and Melvis Santa.
? 2014 ECM Records GmbH
? 2014 ECM Records GmbH |
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| No. of tracks: |
10 |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
3782966 |
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