#insilio

[alcrego]

The fifth wall

Insilio - Inner Sanctuary

Curated by @sutanz x @cyberformsart at @nft_paris

Booth by @olt_lab

4k quadriptych at Objkt

[dustedmagazine]

Isasa — Insilio (La Castanya)

Insilio by Isasa

Conrado Isasa filters a rich tradition of Spanish and Catalan guitar through the lens of American Primitive picking, with echoes of Fahey, Jack Rose and Glenn Jones showing through lines of liquid, rounded clarity. In the end, the music is more reminiscent of Appalachian back hollows than the gypsy caves of Granada, though, of course, the line is not so hard and bright. Some in the American Primitive lineage do draw from flamenco and Spanish classical styles—Peter Walker and Sir Richard Bishop come to mind. Though Isasa mostly doesn’t foreground these influences, they’re there.

The first two tracks, for instance, reference Catalonia—the first overtly in the title which is “Homenaja a Cataluῆa” and the second through the language, as “Tinc Ganes de Veure’t” means “I want to see you in Catalan.” “Homenaja” begins the disc in a ruminative space, its slow strums left to hover, its flurries of picking punctuated by homely squeaks of string. The melody, country pure and simple, emerges like a Polaroid developing, pushing up through the surface of picking and then sinking back down again. “Tinc Ganes de Veure’t” runs a bit starker and less flowery, a pendulum swing between notes repeating like the thought you can’t shake at 3 a.m.

Elsewhere, though, the sounds evoke a bucolic America. “Arquitecto Tenista” swaggers in porch country manner a la Jack Rose’s ragtime sessions, while “Cuesta Ramon,” coaxes eerie vibrating atmospheres out of slide and pick, like Rose again, but in a transcendental mode. You can hardly play acoustic blues like this without a nod to John Fahey, and here Isasa makes his homage explicit in thoughtful, evocative “Copla para John Fahey.” The cut is spare, but set against an ambient drone that captures some of the master’s blend of quotidian folk and gnostic mystery.

Throughout, Isasa pursues his ends with a meditative clarity. Every note seems surrounded by a golden glow, and there is plenty of time to consider the last one before the first intrudes again. It is the sort of record that changes depending on when and how you listen, reflecting something inside of you as well as the notes on guitar. The first few times it played for me, it seemed to reflect the stark grey winter around me. Now, I hear it again, and green pushes through the crack. It is, all in all, a very good record in its quiet way, reflecting multiple guitar traditions in a pensive, self-searching way that makes them seem intimate and personal.  

Jennifer Kelly

[isasaguitarra]

Vinyl is here! You can pre-order it now and get the exclusive coloured edition! Only in my bandcamp site: isasa.bandcamp.com Thanks! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Habemus vinilos! Si hacéis el pre-order, podréis conseguir la edición en vinilo azul que sólo está disponible por bandcamp: isasa.bandcamp.com Gracias!

[jesus-montoya]

Revista Insilio, vol. II

Portada: Ernesto Montiel. Diseño: Santiago Gamero. Edición: Paola Nava y Jesús Montoya.

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[ksoraart]

Insilo - cyber sport

[isasaguitarra]

Amics, el próximo 16 de Noviembre, estaré en el Heliogàbal en Barcelona. Muchas ganas de volver! + info y entradas: Isasa a l'Heliogàbal . . . La Castanya

[isasaguitarra]

Con mucha ilusión os cuento que el jueves de la semana que viene estaré abriendo para el majérrimo @xaviercalvet en el @cafeberlinmadrid y también el sábado en @casairla , Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Entre medias estaré en Zaragoza, el viernes y el domingo en Palamós: J 13/06: Café Berlín, Madrid + Xavier Calvet V 14/06: Arrebato, Zaragoza + Piró S 15/06: Casa Irla + S. Feliu de Guixols + Xavier Calvet D 16/06: Palamós, TBA Gracias!!! @lacastanya @bcoredisc , @tobeconfirmedproductions #isasa #xaviercalvet #crosswinds #insilio #guitarraacustica #santfeliudeguixols #cafeberlin #arrebato #lacastanya #americanprimitive https://www.instagram.com/p/ByX-n4ciNDz/?igshid=gd0foe96knd

[isasaguitarra]

Mañana 25 de abril, estaremos en @costelloclubmad, Madrid. Entradas, link en bio. Hace un año que no toco en Madrid. Negro, tres. La última vez que tocamos juntos en la capital fue hace 4. Nos haría mucha ilusión veros. Celebramos que los dos hemos sacado nuestros respectivos discos, #insilio y #clasemedia. A tope de ambient y folk. Foto en @altafidelidaddiscos por Esaú. @lacastanya (en Sala Costello) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwovGxzADyX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g9cs5luvol7j