Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf 8 (1976)

After 44 years, a rare piece of South American electronic music history resurfaces for first time, remastered at Berlin D&M after recently being highlighted by KFW’s Creel Pone CDr series

“MESÍAS MAIGUASHCA (b. December 24th, 1938 in Quito / Ecuador) is a composer of Neue Musik, especially electroacoustic music, who studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY (1958–65), with ALBERTO GINASTERA at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and, after a short return to Ecuador, attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966–67 where he studied with KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN. From 1968 to 1972, MAIGUASHCA worked closely with STOCKHAUSEN in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and joined STOCKHAUSEN's ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka. In 1971 he became a founding member of the OELDORF GROUP of composers and performers, and began work at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale in Metz, at IRCAM in Paris, and at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. From 1990 – 2004 MAIGUASHCA was Professor of Electronic Music at the Musikhochschule of Freiburg im Breisgau where he still lives today.

„Maiguashca … is part of the first generation of South American maverick sound explorers that in the 1960s paved the way for a tradition of innovation that persists in the present noise and psychedelic scenes of the continent. Along with Edgar Valcárcel, César Bolaños, Beatriz Ferreyra, Mauricio Kagel or José Vicente Asuar, he contributed to expand the possibilities of musical language beyond the dominant Western canon …“ David Jarrin / Kraak Festival”

Tracklisting:
01. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 1 (6:18)
02. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 2 (4:24)
03. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 3 (6:50)
04. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 4 (5:05)
05. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 5 (6:02)
06. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 6 (2:21)
07. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 7 (11:38)
08. Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf, Part 8 (6:08)