Del Cuarto Rojo
Manongo Mujica
Del Cuarto Rojo
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Hallucinatory, Peruvian jazz-fusion from pivotal, Lima-based percussionist-composer Manongo Mujica, paying tribute to his departed friend Rafael Hastings how he knows best - RIYL Michael Ranta, Jocy De Oliveira, Laszlo Hortobagyi
‘Del Cuarto Rojo’ is Mujica’s first solo album since 2016 and sees him tie strands of soundtrack composition and improvised psychedelia to evoke the life of his friend, visual artist Rafael Hastings. Collaborators for almost half a century, Mujica and Hastings developed a cross-discipline method of making music and painting inspired by each other, resulting many soundtracks for dance and scores for video works that were crucial in the context of Lima’s creative milieu during the ‘70s. When Hastings passed away at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020, Mujica began the process of preparing sounds and embarking a personal musical journey in honour of his peer, drawing upon all the techniques learned over the decades - from field recordings and sound montage to experiments with jazz and traditional music - to stitch this absorbing psychedelic tapestry.
Working within interzones also explored by Mujica’s collaborators such as Richard Pinhas, Acid Mothers Temple, João Pais Filipe, and Alan Courtis, the album benefits from the depth of feeling also supplied by crackshot players from the Peruvian scene; Pauchi Sasaki (violin), José Quezada (cello), Terje Evensen (electronic effects), Jean Pierre Magnet (Saxophone), Cristobal, Daniel and Gabriel Mujica (sons of Manongo Mujica, on percussion, string and wind arrangements). Driven by Mujica’s mutable percussive tekkerz, they head in pursuit of an elusive muse, deftly evoking the sense of movement thru vast, natural, nocturnal space and the imagination on their trek from the wide open scenes of ‘Desert’ to the concrète jazz roil of ‘Humor negro’, via sumptuous classical string orchestration in ‘Mar’, and big band tropicalia on ‘Cuerpos en fuga’ that logically prepares and lures listeners into the psychedelic funereality of ‘Procession’ and ‘Inciendos’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Hallucinatory, Peruvian jazz-fusion from pivotal, Lima-based percussionist-composer Manongo Mujica, paying tribute to his departed friend Rafael Hastings how he knows best - RIYL Michael Ranta, Jocy De Oliveira, Laszlo Hortobagyi
‘Del Cuarto Rojo’ is Mujica’s first solo album since 2016 and sees him tie strands of soundtrack composition and improvised psychedelia to evoke the life of his friend, visual artist Rafael Hastings. Collaborators for almost half a century, Mujica and Hastings developed a cross-discipline method of making music and painting inspired by each other, resulting many soundtracks for dance and scores for video works that were crucial in the context of Lima’s creative milieu during the ‘70s. When Hastings passed away at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020, Mujica began the process of preparing sounds and embarking a personal musical journey in honour of his peer, drawing upon all the techniques learned over the decades - from field recordings and sound montage to experiments with jazz and traditional music - to stitch this absorbing psychedelic tapestry.
Working within interzones also explored by Mujica’s collaborators such as Richard Pinhas, Acid Mothers Temple, João Pais Filipe, and Alan Courtis, the album benefits from the depth of feeling also supplied by crackshot players from the Peruvian scene; Pauchi Sasaki (violin), José Quezada (cello), Terje Evensen (electronic effects), Jean Pierre Magnet (Saxophone), Cristobal, Daniel and Gabriel Mujica (sons of Manongo Mujica, on percussion, string and wind arrangements). Driven by Mujica’s mutable percussive tekkerz, they head in pursuit of an elusive muse, deftly evoking the sense of movement thru vast, natural, nocturnal space and the imagination on their trek from the wide open scenes of ‘Desert’ to the concrète jazz roil of ‘Humor negro’, via sumptuous classical string orchestration in ‘Mar’, and big band tropicalia on ‘Cuerpos en fuga’ that logically prepares and lures listeners into the psychedelic funereality of ‘Procession’ and ‘Inciendos’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Hallucinatory, Peruvian jazz-fusion from pivotal, Lima-based percussionist-composer Manongo Mujica, paying tribute to his departed friend Rafael Hastings how he knows best - RIYL Michael Ranta, Jocy De Oliveira, Laszlo Hortobagyi
‘Del Cuarto Rojo’ is Mujica’s first solo album since 2016 and sees him tie strands of soundtrack composition and improvised psychedelia to evoke the life of his friend, visual artist Rafael Hastings. Collaborators for almost half a century, Mujica and Hastings developed a cross-discipline method of making music and painting inspired by each other, resulting many soundtracks for dance and scores for video works that were crucial in the context of Lima’s creative milieu during the ‘70s. When Hastings passed away at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020, Mujica began the process of preparing sounds and embarking a personal musical journey in honour of his peer, drawing upon all the techniques learned over the decades - from field recordings and sound montage to experiments with jazz and traditional music - to stitch this absorbing psychedelic tapestry.
Working within interzones also explored by Mujica’s collaborators such as Richard Pinhas, Acid Mothers Temple, João Pais Filipe, and Alan Courtis, the album benefits from the depth of feeling also supplied by crackshot players from the Peruvian scene; Pauchi Sasaki (violin), José Quezada (cello), Terje Evensen (electronic effects), Jean Pierre Magnet (Saxophone), Cristobal, Daniel and Gabriel Mujica (sons of Manongo Mujica, on percussion, string and wind arrangements). Driven by Mujica’s mutable percussive tekkerz, they head in pursuit of an elusive muse, deftly evoking the sense of movement thru vast, natural, nocturnal space and the imagination on their trek from the wide open scenes of ‘Desert’ to the concrète jazz roil of ‘Humor negro’, via sumptuous classical string orchestration in ‘Mar’, and big band tropicalia on ‘Cuerpos en fuga’ that logically prepares and lures listeners into the psychedelic funereality of ‘Procession’ and ‘Inciendos’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Hallucinatory, Peruvian jazz-fusion from pivotal, Lima-based percussionist-composer Manongo Mujica, paying tribute to his departed friend Rafael Hastings how he knows best - RIYL Michael Ranta, Jocy De Oliveira, Laszlo Hortobagyi
‘Del Cuarto Rojo’ is Mujica’s first solo album since 2016 and sees him tie strands of soundtrack composition and improvised psychedelia to evoke the life of his friend, visual artist Rafael Hastings. Collaborators for almost half a century, Mujica and Hastings developed a cross-discipline method of making music and painting inspired by each other, resulting many soundtracks for dance and scores for video works that were crucial in the context of Lima’s creative milieu during the ‘70s. When Hastings passed away at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020, Mujica began the process of preparing sounds and embarking a personal musical journey in honour of his peer, drawing upon all the techniques learned over the decades - from field recordings and sound montage to experiments with jazz and traditional music - to stitch this absorbing psychedelic tapestry.
Working within interzones also explored by Mujica’s collaborators such as Richard Pinhas, Acid Mothers Temple, João Pais Filipe, and Alan Courtis, the album benefits from the depth of feeling also supplied by crackshot players from the Peruvian scene; Pauchi Sasaki (violin), José Quezada (cello), Terje Evensen (electronic effects), Jean Pierre Magnet (Saxophone), Cristobal, Daniel and Gabriel Mujica (sons of Manongo Mujica, on percussion, string and wind arrangements). Driven by Mujica’s mutable percussive tekkerz, they head in pursuit of an elusive muse, deftly evoking the sense of movement thru vast, natural, nocturnal space and the imagination on their trek from the wide open scenes of ‘Desert’ to the concrète jazz roil of ‘Humor negro’, via sumptuous classical string orchestration in ‘Mar’, and big band tropicalia on ‘Cuerpos en fuga’ that logically prepares and lures listeners into the psychedelic funereality of ‘Procession’ and ‘Inciendos’.
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