The Lost Tapes [LP White Vinyl]

Marcelo Exposito - The Lost Tapes [LP White Vinyl]

Geometrik Records once again plays a part in the exclusive recovery of Marcelo Exposito's previously unpublished work, which had been lost since its original creation in the 1980s. Marcelo Exposito is one of Spain's most internationally renowned contemporary artists, whose work is regularly exhibited across Europe and Latin America. He began his career at a very young age during the era of sound experimentation that flourished in the wake of so-called industrial culture, which found particularly fertile ground in Spain. As co-editor of legendary publications such as the fanzine Experiencias (1983) and, above all, the cassette-fanzine publisher Necronomicon (1983?1987), which operated on an international scale, Marcelo Exposito has, in recent years, been reconstructing those of his sound experiments that had been lost for decades. This album brings together material previously released on cassettes as EGK023 in a very limited edition. These tracks have now been remastered and expanded to complete this record, which noise musician Mattin has described as "secret recordings that constitute a gem from the rich Spanish underground of the 1980s." In the words of Luis Alvarado, editor of the Peruvian label Buh Records, this album "allows us to appreciate how Exposito developed a style of his own that understood sound as a malleable material open to chance. The recordings gathered on The Lost Tapes reveal an artist who moves as much through territories of unsettling textures and atmospheres as through zones of abstraction and radical noise." Influenced by the early work of figures such as Maurizio Bianchi, Nurse With Wound, and La Otra Cara de un Jardin, the release of this album provides a key piece in reconstructing the genealogical puzzle of Spanish experimental music. This carefully curated edition -- in Spanish and English -- includes a lengthy essay by Marcelo Exposito on the creative processes behind his work and the historical context of the industrial culture of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as extensive liner notes contributed by Vittore Baroni, editor of the legendary Italian label Trax; Francisco Felipe, co-founder of the Ars Sonora program on Radio Clasica (Radio Nacional de Espana) and one of the most active names on the Spanish experimental scene of the 1980s; Mattin and Susana Lopez (Susan Drone), key figures in the sound experimentation of the generation that emerged in the 2000s; as well as the aforementioned Luis Alvarado. A1. Desde un sueno (From a Dream) (1:10) A2. Eco de la tierra (Echo of the Earth 1) (10:16) A3. Emisiones de la noche roja (Emissions of the Red Night 1) (10:20) B1. Emisiones de la noche roja (Emissions of the Red Night 2) (3:25) B2. Eco de la tierra (Echo of the Earth 2) (7:00) B3. Eco de la tierra (Echo of the Earth 3) (9:20)