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Boca Negra
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| Boca Negra is the 5th release of the critically acclaimed
Chicago Underground Duo and 10th release by the Chicago Underground
Collective. As with the previous four Duo records, it contains both
composed and improvised music. The recording contains powerful grooves
along with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity and
polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. It also
combines high energy music with slow moving ballads. Boca Negra
was recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Rocha Studios making it the first
record not created in Chicago. It is also the first record that
contains a 'cover', that being Ornette Coleman's 'Broken Shadows'. This
record has been three years in the making and took so long to make due
partly to both Chad and Rob's frantic touring schedules (Rob is the
leader of the Exploding Star Orchestra, Sao Paulo Underground, Mandarin
Movie, and more while Chad performs with Iron and Wine, Marc Ribot, and
so forth). The title Boca Negra means 'Black Mouth', a term
coined in the Tenerife Canary Islands evoking the idea of an endless
intake of information and also harks to the mouth of the volcano Tiede.
The cover photo of the record was taken at the Dead Sea. Keeping those
two things in mind, one of the goals of the record was to present the
listener with the familiar in unfamiliar ways. 'Broken Shadows' for
instance, has Chad playing the drums and vibraphone simultaneously. He
plays just the A section or verse while Rob plays the bridge section or
chorus of the tune. The form is repeated over and over but some times
the bridge is elongated, sometimes it is shortened and sometimes it is
skipped all together, evoking the idea of 'Broken Shadows'. There are
improvisations that sound like composed songs in which Chad's mbira and
Rob's cornet are played through various filters often times sounding
like different instruments all together and composed songs that sound
like improvisations of folk songs. 'Confliction' was probably the most
difficult song to record. The bass line flows with ease but the time
signature varies between 17/8 and 4/4. As with previous records the
goal was not to show virtuoso technique, but rather to present the
listener with an emotional experience that transcends the idea of genre
or label. |
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ARTISTS
Chad Taylor (drums, vibraphone, mbira, computer, electronics); Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics) |
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