Mauricio Kagel - Acustica - Avantgarde Series LP
Mauricio Kagel - Acustica - Avantgarde Series LP
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Avantgarde Vinyl Series No. 2 on 180-gram vinyl 2LP
Mixed & lacquers cut from the original analog 1" 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios
Limited and numbered edition with original artwork
Plus a newly-designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey
Album No. 2 in the brand new vinyl series from Deutsche Grammophon featuring pioneering recordings from the musical avant-garde.
Mauricio Kagel's Acustica (1968-70), composed for experimental sound-producers and loudspeakers, stands among his most ambitious and radical works. Combining electroacoustic tape material created at WDR with acoustic performances on roughly 200 graphic-score cards, it embodies Kagel's idea of instrumentales Theater-where sound, gesture, and performer presence merge into a single dramatic and musical act. The work explores an expanded field of musicality, using invented instruments and found objects to free sound from traditional performance conventions.
Beyond its avant-garde innovations, Acustica reflects Kagel's anarchic and deeply human vision. Its multitude of global sound sources mirrors the diversity of his Buenos Aires upbringing, transforming chaos into playful order and highlighting the autonomy of each performer within a collective whole. Both humorous and sensuous, the piece rejects ideology in favor of freedom, individuality, and shared expression-a musical "anarchy" that celebrates life itself. Through Acustica, Kagel forged a uniquely Latin American response to the European avant-garde: a vivid, democratic sound-world of invention and humanity.
Mastered & lacquers 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, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl 2LP.
LP 1 Side A
1. Kagel: Erster Teil [Acustica]
LP 1 Side B
1. Kagel: Zweiter Teil [Acustica]
LP 2 Side A
1. Kagel: Dritter Teil [Acustica]
LP 2 Side B
1. Kagel: Vierter Teil [Acustica]
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