Nazca - 1988 - En Vivo

Nazca

1988 

En Vivo

01. Nervios de barricada (6:11)
02. Espacios en toro (3:29)
03. Mangle (6:52)
04. Lladotoprogato (10:18)
05. Estacion de sombra (6:21)
06. La morgue (7:15)
07. Ipecacuana (4:21)
08. De oir te duele la boca (6:56)

Alejandro Sanchez / violin
Juan Carlos Ruiz / saxophone, bassoon
Guauahtemoc Novelo / drums, percussion
Jorge Gaitan / bass, viola
Carlo Nicolau / piano, cello

I am not usually a fan of "live" albums, don't know why, just not. But this is fantastic. First off, it's great to hear that NAZCA could really pull this difficult of music off live. And seemingly authenic and effortlessly. Also, the music is just awesome and inspired. In a world (of which I also enjoy) of electronic empasis, it is so, almost reassuring, to hear so organic, acoustic instruments played so wonderfully.

There are very few methodologically rock-based recordings in existence as free of cliches as this. The violin playing has a sense of timbral adventurousness that recalls Malcolm Goldstein or the like, and certainly not the conventional violin playing adopted in the avant-chamber-rock relatives of Nazca like Aksak Maboul. This ranks with Rich Woodson's Ellipsis _Control and Resistance_ as one of the most intricate works of post-rock composition I've ever heard, and its structural sensibilities are so resolutely counterintuitive that I find it among the most impenetrable albums I've ever heard, even while extracting great pleasure from it. I've probably played this a dozen times and I still find myself puzzled and challenged.

If you like R.I.O., this is just (as all their albums) the ticket. I believe all 3 titles of NAZCA are still available, so a must for the "quaint" side of avante music.