Obatalá - Ibofanga

Environmental sound matter from Cuba and the USA. "Original environmental sound matter recorded at multiple locations in Cuba and the USA between 1999 and 2007: Cuba: Sierra del Rosario, Cajío, Siboney, Ciénaga de Zapata National Park, Pico Turquino National Park, Granma National Park, Baconao Biosphere Reserve, Humboldt National Park, Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve, Guantánamo / USA: Sandia Crest Mountains (NM), Algodones (NM), Louisville (KY), Loganville (GA). Edited, composed and mastered at mobile messor (Palermo, Dublin, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Brisbane, Den Haag), 2012-2014." Packaged in a cardboard sleeve. Limited to 300 copies. "The real must be fictionalized in order to be thought [...] It is not a matter of claiming that everything is fiction. It is a matter of stating that the fiction of the aesthetic age defined models for interconnecting the presentation of facts and forms of intelligibility that blurred the border between the logic of facts and the logic of fiction." Jacques Ranciere - 'The Politics of Aesthetics" Original environmental sound matter recorded at the Yanayacu River (Pacaya-Samiria Reserve) in the Peruvian Amazon in 2006. Edited and mastered at moble messor (Troy, NY), spring 2011 Silences in between sections of this piece are intentional. Many thanks to: Alan Poma, Jorge Villacorta, Lucia Garcia, Merardo Ayambo, Leonorio Novoa and Javier Noriega. This edition dedicated to the memory of [a=Zbigniew Karkowski] (1958-2013). (c) francisco lópez 2011, 2014