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01. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Parantara
02. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Lago De Totoras (Totora Lake)
03. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Clarinete De Cajamarca (Clarinet From Cajamarca)
04. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Tarka En Brujas (Tarka In Sorceress)
05. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Estudio Para Quena (Study For Quena)
06. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Despegue (Takeoff)
07. RUIZ DEL POZO, ARTURO  - Selvynas
ARTIST
TITLE
Native Compositions
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BR 066LP BR 066LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/1/2018

By the end of the 1970s, a new generation of musicians who brought together ancestral and forefront, became visible in Lima as they searched for native sounds and the new tools of technology. Amongst them, we find Arturo Ruiz Del Pozo, composer who studied with Edgar Valcárcel. After studying at the National Conservatory in Lima he traveled to London in 1976 to register himself at the Royal College of Music where he took a master's degree in electronic composition. Ruiz Del Pozo had left Lima with a bag full of Peruvian native instruments with the idea of utilizing them in his future compositions. In London he was taught by Lawrence Casserly, one the prominent figures of Britain's electro acoustic composition; a musician who was fascinated by the interaction of instruments and electronic media way back from the times of his fundamental audiovisual experimentation group Hydra. Ruiz del Pozo utilized a series of concrete music resources learnt from Casserly. Based on sounds that came from native instruments and diverse manipulations to which these sounds were subject of, he obtained textures and sonorities, which, at the same time they invoked rituals, they opened a new field of experimentation; a collage of sounds of Andean reminiscence, echoes and abstractions, which will entrance you an unprecedented sound universe. These recordings were named Native Compositions (Composiciones Nativas) and they were released in a cassette tape format in 1984 by the author himself. More than 30 years later Buh Records rescued these recordings to inaugurate its Essential Sounds (Sonidos Esenciales) collection, dedicated to publishing strange and fascinating artifacts of Peruvian experimental music of this period, in a CD edition (2015), which was quickly sold out. Now the label presents its first release on vinyl.