In Kürze erscheint bei Room40 das neue Album “Archipiélago” des in Buenos Aires lebenden Komponisten und Saxofonisten Sergio Merce als Download, inklusive spezieller Radio-Edits. Das auf mikrotonalen Saxofonklängen basierende Werk bewegt sich zwischen brodelnd-dronigen Strukturen und minimalistischen Passagen, die je nach Moment knarrend-schwer, glocken oder gongähnlich oder zurückgenommen und aufgeräumt klingen. Dabei bleibt die primäre Klangquelle oft kaum erkennbar, was den Reiz und die Vielschichtigkeit der Aufnahme ausmacht.

Vomn Künstler selbst heißt es: “Most people know my work as a saxophonist and also as a sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I use a microtonal sax that I built myself and I modified it radically. This modification means the mechanisms of my alto saxophone create very rich harmonics and allow for slowly moving tonality. With this recording though I wanted to explore a new approach to this idea of mircotonailty and texture. With ‘Archipiélago’ I wanted to create a new way of approching this depth of sound and form, which are the fundamental pillars of my music. In a certain sense these pieces show a different landscape, at the same time abstract and concrete, and are a development that pushes outward and I feel advances towards new limits of my abilities as a composer. Disappearing into the silence, we seek to understand fear and suffering. Sometimes sound becomes silence and it is a vehicle that opens the doors of a new consciousness and perhaps, if everything goes well, we can see reality”.