Un altro lavoro di Lezrod (aka David Velez) pubblicato, come al solito da test tube. Questa volta si tratta di 10 pezzi che accompagnano altrettanti video da proiettare in un sushi bar a Las Vegas. Il tutto con il significativo titolo di  fear and loathing in rio/tokyo (paura e disgusto in rio/tokyo).

Data la destinazione, tutti i brani durano 3 minuti e alcuni hanno un carattere tonale che di solito è assente dalle composizioni di Lezrod, ciò nonostante l’atmosfera rimane quella tipica di questo musicista.

Le note di Lezrod:

By the end of Spring I was hired to compose 10 pieces for a series of 10 videos to be displayed in a Brazilian Sushi Restaurant in Las Vegas. Even though the nature of this pieces is abstract, the fact that they have to work with the videos (produced by Daniel Roversi) and that they were going to be performed in a restaurant somehow brought back ‘musical’ elements which were part of my early work. After I finished them I felt it might be interesting to publish this material that if it wasn’t for this project I wouldn’t have ever done it.

The videos were based on cultural elements from both Brazil and Japan but I wanted to make something more universal and I feel my love for soundtracks and film music in general, were particularly influential here. The soundtrack projects of people such as Ry Cooder, Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin, Herbie Hancock, Vangelis, Edward Artemyev, Vincent Gallo and John Frusciante sure served here as inspiration.

The title of this release pays tribute to film director Terry Gilliam and novelist/journalist Hunter S. Thompson and their movie/book ‘Fear and loathing in Las Vegas’ where a unique atmosphere of delirium and disregard is built through the entire story, creating confusion between the sometimes-vague line between reality and imagination. This confusing atmosphere were present on the videos, as Daniel Roversi allowed contradictory elements to play together, as the relationship between the video themes and the relation between Japan and Brazil culture required certain level of abstraction to work altogether.

Also by the time I composed some of the pieces for this release I had a at home some of Luis Buñuel movies which I am sure inspired this work as well. This release pays tribute to him and in particular to his movie ‘Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie’ where this delirium and disregard atmosphere can be found as well. This is a soundtrack for a move composed by 10 chapters, 10 stories that the listener could write, direct, shoot and perform, on his own mind.

Come al solito i brani sono licenziati in Creative Commons e possono essere scaricati qui.

Alcuni estratti. Provateli per cena.

36 Chambers
Ciudad sin Dios

“Retorno a la nada”, album di debutto di David Velez (aka Lezrod) e della netlabel Zymogen, pieno di ritmi obliqui su cui si muovono drone, beep, click e disturbanti scricchiolii.

I sette brani che lo compongono sono tutti rappresentativi, tanto che sono indeciso su quali mettere. Ve ne piazzo alcuni, ma andate ad ascoltarvi e scaricare l’intero album qui.
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For the first release of zymogen.net we bring you the debut album of David Velez, Lezrod, a brand new artist from Bogotà, Colombia.
Raln (Retorno a la nada), represents an exploration into David’s personal style of composition; these songs were produced between april and september of this year, while David was exploring many different ways to express his feelings with music, but always with his very personal style of composition. Download.

Lezrod – Retorno a la Nada (2005)

• Blach
• Spr.m
• Lzblnc

Lezrod è il nick del colombiano David Velez.

In questo album, Exploraciones sonoras de paisajes surreales y espacios infinitos, Lezrod ci introduce in una atmosfera acquatica in cui suoni liquidi si mescolano a rumori meccanici come quelli che potrebbero generarsi nella sala macchine di un ipotetico Nautilus…

L’album è pubblicato dalla netlabel Test Tube e scaricabile da questa pagina.
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Had David Velez, in his Lezrod disguise, inspired himself in the works of Jules Verne for this release, and I would say that he was showing us around the mighty submarine Nautilus, and then taking us in a guided journey through the deep sea.
Is the name “Submar” an abbreviation for Submarine? Only David will know for sure. But in this first piece, everything is dark. Sounds that could almost be labeled industrial group together and are splintered with samples of water moving. Almost no rhythm, apart from the waves of static and the flow and ebb of distant echoes of dark sounds. A gloomy landscape, with the comforting melancholy that only Lezrod can achieve.
The title says it all: sonic explorations of surreal landscapes and infinite spaces. This is the best description one could give.
[Luís Marta]

Lezrod – Exploraciones sonoras de paisajes surreales y espacios infinitos (2006)

• Submar
• Asiv

Full download from Test Tube