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Israel M

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  • Genre: Acousmatic / Tape music / Electroacoustic / Experimental

    Location Zapopan, MX

    Profile Views: 26339

    Last Login: 5/22/2012

    Member Since 8/24/2006

    Website http://www.israelm.com

    Record Label Aagoo / Abolipop / Mandorla

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ........ "NAREAH" NEW ALBUM .. Available on AAGOO RECORDS, April 21th 2009.. Europe distribution by Cargo.. USA distribution by Carrot Top.. Japan distribution by Inpartmaint.. "Nareah" Israel M’s first album, transcribes a journey through a deeply introspective sonic desert. Presented as 6 mental landscapes, Nareah is a work in which Israel merges his primary sound source, field recordings, with synthesized and sampled instruments. Everything is then processed through the computer, generating a richly complex yet minimalist hypnotic music... "Try getting your head around this one. Nareah, Israel M's first album is minimalism at its best. The fifteen minute track 'Mitah' gives you a good representation of what sound artist Israel Martinez is all about. Dark and glitchy effects building up around very raw and organic sounds. Once you give this a listen or two you start to realize the intricacies of the production and the combination of the analogue and digital recording that would be vacant upon first listen. For Martinez it doesn't just stop with this album either, his biography alone tells of contributing some form of sound art to festivals, exhibitions and commissions all over the world. Nareah is well worth the time of day as it is not something you hear everyday." Middleboop.. ........ "EXORCIZIOS".. 2006 – 2007 Work Compilation.. Abolipop Records. 2008.. Available CD:.. ......Abolipop Records .. .... Germany & Europe:.. ......Dekorder .. .... ......Drone Records .. .... USA:.. ......SquidCo .. .... MX:.. ......Discoteca .. .... Available Digital:.. ......Rhapsody .. .... ......eMusic .. .... ......iTunes .. .... .. 'The exercise of the internal demons', the possibility to expose his obsessions through audio. 'Exorcizo', the title of Israel Martinez' CD, is Spanish slang created with the words exorcism and exercise. If one reads his biography, where he played concerts and some of the prizes he won, you may expect some highly serious, academic form of electro-acoustic music. But that's half the story, I guess. Martinez adds humor to his music, as well as some force to the sounds he uses. Take 'Mi Vida', which starts with the ignition of a car, then a car ride and, how sad, a car crash, all spiced up with car engine sounds. Now that is humor, and noise, I guess. And the recurring theme of noise comes back in the other four tracks too. As said Martinez likes a bit of noise in his music, thus hiding his original sound sources, but he doesn't step into the trap of pure distortion or being too academic in his processing, but rather tells us a nice story of his own, as each of these pieces is a narrative (without words) piece of music, like 'Epidermis', using the sound of someone getting a tattoo, but changing into a massive, machine like piece. This is the noise that I like: thoughtful, loud and simply good. (FdW).. VITAL WEEKLY (NL).... ........ Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, Mexico. 1979) is one of the best known young sound artists from Mexico. His work is developed in different fields: experimental and electroacoustic music, sound installation, actions, site-specific projects and video. Martínez has performed and his works has been played live in several cities of Mexico, England, Austria, France, Spain, United States, Colombia and Cuba. In 2007 he accomplished the Award of Distinction at the Digital Musics category of Prix Ars Electronica. He has released the recordings: “Nareah” (2009, Aagoo), “Exorcizios” (2008, Abolipop), “Los Demonios de la Lengua” (2006, Umor Rex) and “Cubensis” (2005, Filtro); in 2010 Martínez will publish “Trilogy”, audiovisual works in collaboration with Mexican multidisciplinary artist Luis Felipe Ortega. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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