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Xavier Losada : Acantilado
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Avant garde chamber and experimental music
Genre: Classical: Contemporary
Release Date: 2008
Acantilado Record Label: Xavier Losada
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La Calma 5:20 $0.99
Sin Destino 4:23 $0.99
La Muerte de Empédocles 4:38 $0.99
Inferno 4:40 $0.99
La Calma (Remastered) 5:20 $0.99
Sin Destino (Remastered) 4:23 $0.99
La Muerte de Empédocles (Remastered) 4:38 $0.99
Inferno (Remastered) 4:35 $0.99
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Album Notes

From the books to your player:

Xavier Losada, musical producer and theater composer, presents this EP called acantilado.

After recording Escritorio and soon to start the production of embas' Suburbia, Losada began to work with 4 books published by biblioteca del acantilado:

Resting by Attila Bartis
Fateless by Imre Kertész
Death of Empedocles by Frederich Hölderlin
Inferno by August Strindberg

The result is this 8 theme EP (Each theme is presented mastered & remastered) were is placed his interpretation of each tale.

About Xavier Losada

Losada began his musical career as guitarist and composer in the rock band HD in 1995. Later, he worked as a composer and live musician of Kaiser Soze Teatro (KST), a theater group led by Juan Souki. El verdadero Inspector Hound (Best Original Score, Festival Jose Angel Porteacero, 1998) was his first composition for theater and the beginning of a very productive relation with the novel director.

Among the pieces that counted with the musical participation of Xavier Losada are: Klown (KST, 2001); 10 (Enescena, 2002) for which he obtained Best Original Score in the Cinates Festival; Tell 2,2 (KST, 2003); Atra Bilis (Festival the International of Theater of Caracas – Tinta Fresca, 2004); Love (Caracas - New York Collective, 2005 with two seasons in the city of New York, 2006); The Uhaul Trilogy (Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 2006); Crime & Punishment (Columbia Stages, 2007) and El Cascanueces Flamenco (2007) a flamenco adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

Simultaneously, Xavier developed his facet as a musical producer taking the reins from the albums Suburbia by Embas (2006); Skama Sweet Selection of the reggae/dub band Skama Sweet Selection (TBA); and Blood & Karma (2008), debut album of the dark metal band Triad.

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REVIEWS

Una obra sui generis con una madurez que promete un gran futuro
author: Gerry Weil
acantilado evidencia que no siempre el intento creativo de un músico en proceso de formación se ve vinculado a los patrones de moda que influencian a jóvenes compositores e intérpretes como la solución que garantiza el éxito. Xavier Losada tiene la audacia y originalidad de proponer una obra sui generis con una madurez que promete un gran futuro en el arte de jugar con los sonidos. Su vínculo con la literatura y el teatro lo llevan por caminos diferentes al músico cuya intención es solamente divertir al oyente. La obras de Xavier Losada exigen que el oyente se inmiscuya en los textos, es decir, en el trasfondo literario que son el aliado e inspiración de este joven compositor. Me atrevo a pronosticar que su nombre se hará sentir en las corrientes musicales vinculadas a la auténtica expresión sin dar concesiones, con una personalidad propia y bien marcada. Felicito a Xavier por este nuevo intento.
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Creative Contemporary Classical CD
author: William and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team
"Acantilado" by Xavier Losada is a creative CD of experimental Chamber and Avant Garde music. It features 8 themes, 4 mastered and 4 remastered. It is a highly cinematic album, but in a minimalist way. The arrangements are certainly "out there" and will challenge your ears. Lots of tonal piano lines and progressions mixed with eerie sounds and some ethnic instruments. The quality of sound is quite good and attention was paid to every detail. Highlights include "La Calma," which is the lead-off track and lets you know right away what you are in store for as it fades in with faint gong strikes, followed by a promise filled piano line that eventually moves into a dark place. "La Meurte de Emp'edolces" features many unique ethnic sounds (rainsticks, digerdoos, etc...) and has a curious Tuba arrangement. If you like experimental classical music, you'll enjoy this inventive CD.
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Acantilado
author: Beatríz Abreu
Emociones Inteligentes... Una influencia prematura que desata mis intenciones de arraigarme al color de la música...
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