La Serranita, Córdoba

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Viaje musical

(...) hacia La Serranita, field-recordings nocturnos a la vera del río Anisacate (el mundo secreto de los insectos). Y un concierto, el día viernes 27 en La Cúpula, Ciudad de Córdoba junto a Pablo Mendes Cercas y Juan Castrillo.

A beautiful review by Fluid Radio

FEDERICO DURAND – EL LIBRO DE LOS ÁRBOLES MÁGICOS
Posted On: June 11, 2012

A sense of place. And a sense of time, passing. These are the aims of much of the music we might describe as operating on experimental frequencies. Whether conjured through field recordings, the description of resonating spaces – both real and imaginary, both acoustic and electronic, or the associations of particular instruments, these recordings aim for a world beyond simply ‘the studio’ and ‘the stage’.

With this expanded world at their fingertips, composers look beyond the everyday to the imagined, the idealized and the nostalgic. Thinking beyond such simplified areas as the ‘soundtrack to an imaginary film’, works emerge that are drawn from memory and dreams as much as documentary invocations of place.

El libro de los árboles mágicos is composer Federico Durand’s homage to the village in rural Argentina where his mother lives – drawn from “the voice of that reality and also its echo, which is born out of dream and fantasy.” There are field recordings aplenty here, the chirruping of birds, the crunch of boots on gravel, or maybe snow, the rush of a summer downpour, but from the overlapping chords of Crisantemo onwards, this is no simple snapshot of a place at one moment in time.

Instead, there is a gentle progression from the day to day idyll of the valleys to the heights and solitude of the mountains – suggested by the way the balance of the album shifts from more environmental sounds to more in depth, electronic processes – a move from a photo album to a dream perhaps?

As such, the album presents itself as a journey – and yes, a gentle sense of time passing – summer to late autumn. The extended washes of sound, hints of delayed piano, and expertly placed environment sounds combine to a serene, almost stately whole. Highlights? The way the undulating electronics and backwards attacks of La edad dels bosque overlap with the high-summer sounds of crickets. The almost fanfare like quality of the final track, with its touches of looped zither or harp like tones.– Recommended!

John Boursnell for Fluid Radio.

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Thank you very much John Bournell and Fluid Radio! 

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El libro de los árboles mágicos

Federico Durand : El libro de los árboles mágicos
Label : Home Normal (Japan)
Cat.No : homen036

Release date : June 15th, 2012 (WORLDWIDE)

Edition : 500

• Pre-order @ Home Normal Store HERE

Release description: There is a little mountain village in Córdoba, Argentina, called La Serranita. There lives my mother. Her house is a simple, rural cabin placed on a hill. Everything in it matches perfectly with the spirit of the place. A house to live in during heavy winter storms. Behind the house there is a path which leads to Anisacate river. Here and there you can see bushes, eucalyptus and espinillos which either sleep or blossom in the shelter of the seasons. Sometimes, at dusk, an owl appears while invisible insects whisper among the leaves. And in the vicinity of the mountain path there grow plants of rosemary, mint and other herbs you can make infusions with. ‘El libro de los árboles mágicos’ is dedicated to that place, to the crystalline community of its people, to the animals and things. In fact, this album is more like a storybook. Every musical piece takes the voice of that reality and also its echo, which is born out of dream and fantasy. (Federico Durand)

All music by Federico Durand, except piece 1 which is a collaboration with Chihei Hatakeyama, piece 4 with Fuqugi and piece 5 with Ian Hawgood, originally released on ‘Slow Films in Low Light’ (Home Normal 013).

Mastered by Ian Hawgood.

Photography by Eirik Holmøyvik.

Tracklist:
01 Crisantemo
02 Atardecer
03 La edad del bosque
04 La niebla cambia de color
05 El pequeño zorro colorado 
06 El libro de los árboles mágicos
07 Cinco luciérnagas

Thank you very much, Federico.

Concierto en La Torre - Casa de té

El viernes 23 de julio, a las 21 horas, Federico Durand se despide de su disco "La Siesta del Ciprés" en la casa de té La Torre, en Agua de Oro.

El disco, editado por SPEKK, ha sido descripto por la legendaria revista española Rockdelux como "ese velo blanquecino, una mezcla de ambientes y sonidos de muestra, teclas de juguete y el arrullo de cintas de casete que descubre un mundo en calma, virgen, de una belleza frágil, tan perfecta que parece a punto de romperse".

Los esperamos a la tarde para tomar un rico té y esperar el recital de Fede que empezará a las 21:00 hs.

Para los que no conocen Agua de Oro, está sobre la Ruta E53 a poco menos de 50 km de la ciudad de Córdoba, pasando Río Ceballos, Salsipuedes, El Pueblito, El Manzano y camino a La Granja o Ascochinga.

La Torre está ubicada sobre la ruta, en el km 47 y 1/2. En el barrio Solarium Suizo, frente al criadero de iguanas.

Si no, en el pueblo, cualquier persona sabe cómo indicar el camino hacia "la torre".


Colectivos desde Córdoba :
EDER (sale desde el mercado sud)
Ciudad de Córdoba (el que va a La Granja o Ascochinga)

Muchas gracias a Ana y Gustavo por todo.

La Serranita - Field-recordings

La Serranita - Field-recordings & pictures in a beauty-envoirment

Family.

Thanks to Mother.