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Indigenae

Release: Jan 06, 2020

Irreverence Group Music, presents Indigenae, the new album of the composer and musicologist, Susan Campos - Fonseca. In this work, Campos-Fonseca proposes a deconstructive exploration of the music of Costa Rican composer Marvin Camacho-Villegas and the sound cosmogonies of the Bribri-Cabecar people, working with extended techniques on the piano.

 
 
 
Art Cover by José Pablo Ureña (2015)

Art Cover by
José Pablo Ureña (2015)

 
 
 

Info:

Susan Campos - Fonseca: Indigenae

Artists:
Susan Campos - Fonseca (vocal & piano)
Yónder Muñoz (Marimba)

Composer:
Marvin Camacho - Villegas

Format: Album
Release: Jan 10, 2020
Catalogue: IGM-027
GTIN/EAN/UPC: 4050215811461
Producer: Irreverence Group Music

Tracks:

Indigenae

Haikus
01. I
02. II
03. IV
04. VII

Sorbones
05. I
06. IV
07. VI

Kö yöno: Canto para desgranar el maíz (Feat. Yónder Muñoz)
08. I
09. II

 
 
Susan Campos - Fonseca Photo by Julián De La Chica

Susan Campos - Fonseca
Photo by Julián De La Chica

 
 

Album Notes:

Post-minimal indigenism

In 1986 I met Marvin Camacho-Villegas, since then a close friendship joins us. His music is a fundamental guide for my intellectual work and for the sound research that I develop. In 2013 I undertook a deconstructive project of his works inspired by the indigenous audible worlds of the Bribrí-Cabécar people. I carefully studied and shredded his "Bribri Meditation" (1984), the "Seven haikus" (2012), "Six sorbones" (2018), and "Kö yöno" (2018). This process transformed us mutually, his music ceased to be the same interpreted by him and virtuously replicated by other musicians. It became a research about sonic experimentation, spectral music and post-minimal indigenism. This justifies the title of the album: indigenae.

 
 
Susan Campos - Fonseca Photo by Julián De La Chica

Susan Campos - Fonseca
Photo by Julián De La Chica

 
 

I made several recordings and presented his “haikus” and “sorbones” at the Spectra / International Festival of Electroacoustic Music 2018 in Bogotá, Colombia; in the University Museum of Contemporary Art - MUAC of Mexico City in 2019, and in the country where both born: Costa Rica. This deconstructive exploration was developed within the framework of my research on noise and interior coloniality. Consequently, this album is a log of that trip.

Susan Campos Fonseca, PhD.

 

The Recording

 
 
 
 

Credits

Produced by Irreverence Group Music
Music by Marvin Camacho - Villegas

Susan Campos - Fonseca - Vocal & Piano
Yónder Muñoz (marimba)

Recorded & Mixed by Bernal Chaves
at the School of Musical Arts
of the University of Costa Rica
Mastered by John Garcia

Program Notes by Susan Campos
Cover design by José Pablo Ureña
Photography by Julián De La Chica

Videos by IGM
Marvin Camacho (BMI)
Manufactured and marketed by
Irreverence Group Music (Brooklyn, NY)
Made in US. Total time: 50 min
Ⓟ and Ⓒ  2020 IGM