El Jardín de las Matemáticas - El Jardín de las Matemáticas (2024) [Hi-Res]

Penultimate Press boss Mark Harwood chimes into The Garden of Mathematics’ earthy, humid/arid flux of atmospheres and fantasy ethnomusicology conjured with bandmates from Chile, Argentina, Australia and Germany - one for fans of trippy tackle by Angus Maclise, Pygmy Unit, Charlie Nothing, Smegma, even early Hype Williams for De Stijl

Flocking around a massive arsenal of folk instruments and electronics, Harwood appears amid a mass including Alvaro Daguer (Glorias Navales/A Full Cosmic Sound/ETCS Records), Pablo Picco (Bardo Todol/Bolinga Everest Records), and Tomás Salvatierra (Glorias Navales), for a properly bezonked session of psych-folk hijinx gleaned from a massive arsenal of kit listed as thus: Tambor chino (drum chino), ocarina, percusiones (shakers), flautas (pips), silbatos (whistles), violin (fiddle), campanas (bells), sonidos de campos (field recording), guitarra acústica (acoustic guitar), clarinete (clarinet), nvike, harmonium, bombo (drum), korg ms-20, moceño, casio sa46, tascam dr05, tapes, owl flute, instagram, reaper.

The ensemble follow their wits for 40’ of music that crosses borders like a troupe who were privy to the making of Holy Mountain, took too much LSD, and never looked back as they headed beyond the compass into deepest fissures of the imagination. Their seven part journey embarks the multi temporal soundscape of ‘Pastoreo de Cabras’, which first loosens heads to their gently layered cacophony, and takes in wigged-out, discordant organ and gravelly swill of ‘El Búho de las Matématicas’, thru to sweat lodge rhythms and reedy expression on ‘Las palabras fueron Sonido’, what sounds like a secret session on a Marrakesh back alley in its title piece, resolving to a crudely spellbinding gauze of meshed elements in ‘El problem de Muslin’, and shores up in the alien atavism of ‘El Golem Gordo’. Serve with a hot crack pipe of DMT for optimal immersion.

Tracklist:
1-1. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - Las palabras fueron Sonido (04:27)
1-2. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - El Jardín de las Matemáticas (05:34)
1-3. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - Luces de Montaña (04:08)
1-4. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - El problema de Suslin (06:16)
1-5. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - El Golem Gordo (07:15)
1-6. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - El Búho de las Matemáticas (04:56)
1-7. El Jardín de las Matemáticas - Pastoreo de Cabras (05:34)