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Mauricio Moquillaza — Mauricio Moquillaza
(Buh Records BR185, 2024, LP / DL)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2024-11-24

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Maurizio Moquillaza is a new name from the Peruvian electronic and experimental musical world, and this is his debut LP. He emerged from Lima’s experimental music scene, and he is also a bassist who has honed his craft at the crossroads of noise and free improvisation. He founded the collective Deshumanización, which serves as a platform for showcasing a whole new generation of experimental music artists in the city. The album contains four lengthy pieces simply titled “1,” “2,” “3,” and “4” each clocking in somewhere between seven and twelve minutes, created using modular synthesizer — each the result of extensive experimentation in his home studio, each created in a single take with no overdubs. Each creation is a powerful and wildly experimental blend of ideas that seems to be in a constant state of circulation and chaotic freedom, with sounds that walk a thin line between free improvisation and mechanical spontenaiety, straddling the cusp of organic beauty and disorder, never quite reaching a point of resolution. Over the decades, electronic music has developed from its humble beginnings into several different schools of sound, like Berlin School, the French sound of folks like Jarre, the floating ambient and progressive ambient, folks like Rudy Adrian, Michael Garrison, Steve Roach, and many others, and then of course electronic translations of classical music; but Moquillaza is like none of that, in fact to find electronic sounds such as this, one would need to get in the wayback machine and go back to the very beginnings in the early-to-mid 60s when all electronic music was experimental in nature, the very earliest efforts to craft something palpable out of essentially noise from circuits. Moquillaza is retracing that similar journey from the genesis of electronic sound, carving and shaping it into something uniquely interesting, and offering the listener something challenging at the same time.

Filed under: New releases, 2024 releases

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