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Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth release "march" on Drimala

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New compositions for electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, vocals and drums

Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth have a longstanding duo collaboration that now includes three releases, many performances, a European tour, and a major upcoming American tour. Their third duo release, march, was recorded in Brooklyn, NY following their three week European tour in early 2002. This recording is a document of the concepts they honed together during numerous performances, train rides, conversations, and through collaborations with other musicians they met on that tour. The result covers a varied sonic terrain, incorporating spare, gestural preparations, electronic static, ringing open strings, and delicate piano/guitar interplay, all with an overarching compositional vision.

The thirteen tracks include duo pieces for acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and piano, solo pieces (one by each artist), and three improvised songs featuring vocals and drums by Diaz-Infante. Within the final track is an extended, hidden piece recorded live at Roulette Intermedium in New York City by Jim Staley.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth will be promoting “march" with a five week U.S. tour as a trio with Berlin based electro-acoustic guitarist Annette Krebs in October and November, 2002. Check http://www.paxrecordings.com/linernotes/march.html for more info and tour dates.

PRESS QUOTES:

“(Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth) first got together in 1999, but to listen to their highly intelligent and effective electro-acoutsic music one might think that they've been on the same wavelength for a good deal longer than that-I personally would have guessed at somewhere between two and three thousand years." -- Walter Horn, SIGNAL TO NOISE

“The dialogue established between the two musicians is convincing, their sound palette enough varied to sustain the attention. Both have a propensity to land on tonal islands in the flow of free improv, which gives them the power to destabilize and charm. Recommended. (****)" -- Fran

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