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Pandemic Ballad

from Pandemonium by Banda Elástica

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The ENVIRULADA SUITE is composed of 3 tracks twinned in different ways. The Jazz Quartet appears in its most orthodox version: Saxophone, Guitar, Double Bass and Drums. What is no longer so conventional are the "ways" of articulating the discourses. The soloist-section paradigm has long since been discarded by Banda Elástica. However, the instruments take their role per-se, as in the Plegaria Miasmática where the Sax discourses and begs and the trio welcomes and interpellates him, pushing the insistent request. The longed-for connection takes place, time crystallized, minutes of concreteness and coincidence, that is the magic of music.
Pandemic Ballad is a song of love and longing, as all ballads are. It is in the calm and in the waiting that love blossoms, in kind and lyrical words, not exempt of vehement insistence. Love has only one condition: energy, and in this it is very much like music. There is an existential premise in both cases, since they happen, they happen. The pressing call of love is of course seduction, lover and listener are seduced, occupied by the loving acts, by the voices of the sirens. They are the ways of the heart, benefactors of existence. The special role of the cymbals that drive the ethereal phenomena of aural pleasure, seem to caress the listener and advocate for the other voices, is the metallic vibration molded with mastery by the percussionist.
Tremendous rhythm section, that of Banda Elástica! The musicians in their facets of alchemists acrisolando in mancuerna their expertise, in being two seem as one. The drummer floats, maneuvering and foot-acting, flooding the acoustic space in a sonorous cascade, while the double bass emerges with solid swinging roots to attach himself to his section. Their voluminous instruments shaking and founding the base of Microrganismos en Pugna, the open book where guitar and saxophone are explored, their strategies put into play are unified, they are years, decades, of sharing a band and that jumps to the ear. The resource of the ostinato is shared by the Memos, repetitive and mechanical phrases seem to illustrate the obsessive micro-organic movement, stimulus-response between these instrumentalists, who share the convincing message. It is the coherence of their words Band, it is the avidity with which the quartet acrisola event and coincidence, there where these elastic chavo-rucos grab ascending way. And what goes up, goes up more!

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from Pandemonium, released March 12, 2021
Propositor, alto sax : Guillermo Portillo. Guitar Guillermo G. Phillips. Double bass Sósimo Hernández. Drums Luis Miguel Costero.

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