VA - Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music 1953​-​1969 (2024)

This LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research - almost all hidden - by Spanish musicians in the '50s and '60s. Those pieces were composed while the country was under the tyranny of Francisco Franco. It is truly the ultimate grail, developed by musicologist Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, he is its curator, editor and commentator. This undoubtedly marks a major step in the approach and understanding of this music which had to fight to exist before the death of Franco in 1975.

Five Spanish Pionniers of Eletronic and Experimental Music
This LP aims to present 5 composers who most often work outside the rules and without the possibility of help from their own country.

Jose Val del Omar (1904-1982)
Essentially a creator, a filmmaker developing a dreamlike art - not without links with Federico Garcia Lorca or Luis Buñuel.

Eduardo Polonio (1941- )
Between 1966 and 1970 at the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music-IPEM of the University of Ghent, Belgium. Eduardo
Polonio, has published, in forty years, more than a hundred works.

Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny (1929-2011)
In 1952 he joined the Manuel de Falla Circle and in 1974 he… more
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released April 4, 2024

Tracklist

1.
Aguaespejo granadino (fragment of the soundtrack, 1953-55) / José Val del Omar 05:52
2. Para una pequeña margarita ronca (1969) / Eduardo Polonio 07:24
3. Peça per a serra mecànica (1964) / Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny 05:00
4. Étude de stage (1961) / Juan Hidalgo 05:03
5. Líneas y puntos (1966) / Cristóbal Halffter 15:05