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by Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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Collage #1 18:19
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Invent a small audience and have no notion and Saturdays and Mondays and I’ve heard your self-portrait and you walk on the moon and you love down passion and you go through this modern art this modern life and this modern art and this modern life and you go and you pretend to be in the orchestra and you compose like a sentence and you really love Willem de Kooning and you make a little noise and you tiptoe and you stand on Tuesdays and you recite on Sundays
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Collage #2 16:16

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"And you thought Eugene Chadbourne's 1980s "basement experiments" on cassettes were weird! If Ernesto Diaz-Infante leaves any lasting impression (and this writer thinks he will, thanks to his free improv skills), music fans in a few decades will surely be baffled by his large output of wildly different releases, especially his most obscure productions. This album, a cassette with Xeroxed artwork from the Omaha micro-label AZA Foreign Lands, belongs to the same category as his other tapes for Seagull and oTo. It features two 20-minute collages of field recordings (street sounds, answering machines), basic electronic tweaks (drones, electric buzzes), and passages of acoustic guitar and voice. Surprisingly, these provide the most disturbing moments: the guitar is horribly detuned and prepared and Diaz-Infante murmurs more than he sings, making the words decipherable only in part. It all sounds very dark and alienated -- Chadbourne's tape universe without any iota of humor. Lucky for us, we have his other, more "high-profile" releases to convince ourselves that he is not the madman he appears to be here or that his inspiration is not running out. This art is extreme, radical in its negation of the listener's pleasure, its artistic claustrophobia, and its do-it-yourself parti-pris. No need to say that it's only for the fanatic or collectors of bizarre sound art." --François Couture, All Music Guide

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released April 2, 2021

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: field recordings, guitar, vocals, and tape collage

Recorded at 699 Arguello and in and around San Francisco, California.

Originally released as a cassette on AZA Foreign Lands micro-label in 2002.

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Ernesto Diaz-Infante San Francisco, California

Ernesto Diaz-Infante’s musical compositions span a broad perspective: transcendental piano, noise, improvised music, avant- garde guitar, field recordings, and experimental song. He received his MFA from CalArts in Music Composition, where he studied with Stephen L. Mosko and Wadada Leo Smith. He lives in San Francisco with filmmaker Marjorie Sturm and their son and daughter. ... more

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