#2196: Program #2196

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
The unpredictable and adventurous Mexican band Café Tacuba takes top billing on this New Sounds program. Don’t miss a sampling of their forays into punk, bolero, ranchera, salsa, chamber music (with and without the Kronos Quartet), rock, soul, trance, techno, metal, funk, industrial, and even disco, sometimes all at once. We'll also hear the weird otherworldly sounds of the plasmaht, developed by Mexican innovator Ariel Guzik. It’s an instrument creation that responds to electromagnetic energy from objects in the environment - or even from people themselves - to trigger musical sounds from the strings coated in a variety of metals. Plus, there's music by Mexican recorder virtuoso Horacio Franco to round out the show.

PROGRAM #2196 New Music from Mexico (First aired Thurs. 9-25-03)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Mariachi Cobre

XXV Anniversario

El Jilguerillo, excerpt [1:00]

Black Sun#15022 www.harmonies.com*

Ariel Guzik

Plasmaht

Ponchada con celula base excerpt [:30]

AG #1, available through www.csr-records.ch

Café Tacuba

Reves/Yosoy

8 [4:00]
El Polen [3:30]
MC [4:00]

Warner Bros. 2 CDs #47374** www.cafetacuba.com.mx

Kronos Quartet

Nuevo

12/12, with Café Tacuba [11:30]
Plasmaht, with Ariel Guzik [2:00]

Nonesuch #79649** www.nonesuch.com or available for purchase at Amazon.com*

Ariel Guzik

Plasmaht

Ponchada con celula base excerpt [5:30]

See above.

Antonio Zepeda

Espejo de la Noche

Mariposa de Obsidiana [4:00]

Producciones Fonograficas #0751, probably out of print, but try Amazon.com*

Horacio Franco

Serie Siglo XX, Vol. VIII

D. Catan: Encantamiento [7:30]

Serie Siglo XX, probably unobtainable, but contact the artist directly through his website http://horaciofranco.com/

Ariel Guzik

Plasmaht

El Experimento, excerpt [3:00]

See above.

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