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Aguirre: Egungun - Percussion Sextets / SoXXI Percussion Group
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Aguirre: Egungun - Percussion Sextets / SoXXI Percussion Group

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Details

Composer
Louis Franz Aguirre
Artist
Soxxi Percussion Group
Format
CD
Label
Ekkozone
Released
Mar 29, 2024
Catalog #
Ekkozone02
UPC
809730000225

About

EGUNGUN: EARTH-SHATTERING PERCUSSION

Ekkozone Records proudly presents the Valencia-based SoXXI Percussion Group and their decade-spanning collaboration with Louis Franz Aguirre (b. 1968), one of the foremost Latin American composers of today.

EGUNGUN features premiere recordings of Aguirre’s ground-breaking percussion sextets, a singular body of work which conjures up the composer’s mystical-religious universe. Elements from traditional Afro-Cuban percussion music, Indian classical music and Iannis Xenakis’s percussion writing are some of the sources that Aguirre draws upon, yet his musical language is wholly original.

Visceral and highly dramatic, the five compositions on EGUNGUN encompass every conceivable dynamic nuance, from evocative gongs and incantations of ancient Yoruba texts to terrifying textures, screams, and a profusion of drums and unconventional metallic percussion sounds, including the unheard-of and stunningly captured sound of electric hammer drills drilling into car rims!

EGUNGUN is the follow-up to Ekkozone’s latest release, ORULA, which was picked as one of the best albums of 2023 by the leading Danish music magazine Seismograf.

Tracklist 5 tracks

  1. 1 Egungun: Ará Orun 10:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    Egungun: Ará Orun
    Duration
    10:37
    Composer
    Louis Franz Aguirre
    Ensemble
    SoXXI Percussion Group
  2. 2 Toque a eggun 03:36
    Track
    2
    Title
    Toque a eggun
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Louis Franz Aguirre
    Ensemble
    SoXXI Percussion Group
  3. 3 Bembé 11:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    Bembé
    Duration
    11:06
    Composer
    Louis Franz Aguirre
    Ensemble
    SoXXI Percussion Group
  4. 4 Oriki y Bembé a Eshu (Kyrie eleison) 26:07
    Track
    4
    Title
    Oriki y Bembé a Eshu (Kyrie eleison)
    Duration
    26:07
    Composer
    Louis Franz Aguirre
    Ensemble
    SoXXI Percussion Group
  5. 5 Wemilere a Eleggua y Oggún (Liturgia de la Presencia Divina) 15:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    Wemilere a Eleggua y Oggún (Liturgia de la Presencia Divina)
    Duration
    15:19
    Composer
    Louis Franz Aguirre
    Ensemble
    SoXXI Percussion Group