Label: Pentiments

限定65部の展示用エディション、24ページカタログ付き!!非常に優れた審美眼にて音盤リリースを行っている米アート系/実験レーベルPentiments。ここの主宰者にして音楽家のGuido Gamboaが、2024年9月にロサンゼルスのギャラリーで開催された自身の展示"Twice a Man"の開催を記念して制作した極小部数LP作。エクストリームなエレキギター音楽を聴いていた青春時代のノスタルジーをコンセプトに、雑多なギター演奏の断片を積み上げた強靭なミュージック・コンクレート。ヒリヒリとしたエッジの立った感触が非常にカッコイイ。カタログには展覧会の作品を掲載。





In what is surely some sign of psychological regression, Gamboa ventures back into the haze of his adolescence as a listener of extreme electric guitar music in order to fashion with great discomfiture this motley assemblage of “musical songs” that bare the vestiges of idioms plucked from one subgenre or another, albeit now defused by attitudes persisting from previous works. In reality, the work’s mode of operation in its more cogent moments can be said to be crudely redolent of what Kyle Gann has described in relation to the work of Peter Thoegersen as “this particularly American concept of fusing the polytempic with the polymicrotonal,” although one could just as easily perceive the results of this operation as resembling some peculiar weed grown from the crevices of whatever untraced constellation may exist between the works of Henry Brant, Easley Blackwood, Bjorn Fongaard and Brenoritvrezorkre. Guitar Center Elliott Carter, maybe. For the exceptionally curious only.

Edition of 65 LPs released on the occasion of the ‘Twice a Man’ exhibition opening, September 21, 2024 at P.E.O.P.L.E. Gallery in Los Angeles. Includes full-color offset-printed jacket, full-color labels and a 24-page 8.5x11” exhibition catalog with postscript by Gamboa. Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering.