Arturo Ruiz del Pozo
Composiciones Nativas
Subtitled "Music for Native Peruvian Instruments and Magnetophonic Tape (1978)" this is a wonderful collection of pieces composed between 1976 & 1978 at the Royal College's EMS by Peruvian composer Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. Ranging from extended tape-loop meditations to application of mystical folk instrumentation & enharmonic percussion sonorities, this is an incredibly eye-opening survey of the work of a composer of whose work I was completely unfamiliar prior to this issue.Like many countries in …
Nocturno
First release in 1981. Another essential reissue documenting the history of experimental music in Peru. Omar Aramayo (Punol' s wind instruments), Manongo Mujica (percussion) and Arturo Ruiz del Pozo (keyboard), they shaped this magnificent album, where the early Andean music in Peru is assembled with the electronics, opening up to the pure sound experimentation. These composers explored serial, electronic, electroacoustic, and aleatoric music during a time of tension between politics and the ava…