{"id":57133,"date":"2021-09-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=57133"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:32:52","slug":"angel-ontalva-angel-on-a-tower-octoberxart-records-2021-grabacion-de-jazz-por-enrique-farelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/angel-ontalva-angel-on-a-tower-octoberxart-records-2021-grabacion-de-jazz-por-enrique-farelo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ngel Ontalva: Angel on a Tower (OctoberXart Records, 2021) [Grabaci\u00f3n de jazz] Por Enrique Farelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"El \u00faltimo trabajo de \u00c1ngel Ontalva supone adentrarse en un mundo sonoro complejo, oscuro a veces, pero siempre contextuado en un concepto de puro rock<\/em> progresivo aderezado por multitud de influencias, esencias e infinidad de texturas que abarcan desde el Canterbury<\/em> m\u00e1s cerebral (National Health<\/em>) hasta el rock<\/em> de c\u00e1mara, pasando por jazz \u00a0avantgarde<\/em>, Rock in Opposition <\/em>o el ambient<\/em> m\u00e1s cercano a Robert Fripp y Brian Eno.<\/p>\n

En Angel on a Tower<\/em> trabamos contacto con un \u00e1lbum instrumental para elegidos, para aventureros e inconformistas que buscan ir m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de lo conocido que engarzar\u00eda como un guante en sellos como Moonjune Records<\/em> o Cuneiform Records<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Una obra que requiere pausa y reflexi\u00f3n, una obra fundamentada en el pasado pero que se adelantada a su tiempo, una obra que nos habla del futuro desde el presente.<\/p>\n

Muchas son sus influencias y tambi\u00e9n empastadas que suponen un punto de partida desde el cual iniciar una forma distinta y muy personal de alcanzar un estilo \u00fanico.<\/p>\n

Doce piezas cortas y alguna miniatura que enlazan a la perfecci\u00f3n conformando un todo compacto y s\u00f3lido, donde cada corte contiene una riqueza instrumental de m\u00faltiples matices, donde cada eslab\u00f3n de la cadena cuenta una historia.<\/p>\n

Desde la inicial \u201cParadise Flying Snake I\u201d encontramos sonidos emergentes, contundentes, obsesivos y naif<\/em> en sinton\u00eda con propuestas como Ensemble Nimbus<\/em> o la L`Ensemble Ray\u00e8<\/em>; la diminuta, paradigm\u00e1tica y parad\u00f3jica \u201cSeafoam\u201d nos ofrece una gran variedad de sonidos ricos en texturas.<\/p>\n

En \u201cAngel on a Tower\u201d encontramos lo que quiz\u00e1s podr\u00edamos definir como la mayor de las influencias de \u00c1ngel Ontalva; Henry Cow<\/em> y King Crimson<\/em> y en menor medida, los igualmente brit\u00e1nicos Gryphon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

En \u201cLena Pillars\u201d, \u00c1ngel Ontalva transmuta alqu\u00edmicamente su guitarra en la de Robert Fripp; juego de silencios inquietantes y sonidos naif<\/em>, una vez m\u00e1s, encarnados en la figura del fagot de John Falcone en \u201cFootsteps\u201d.<\/p>\n

De paso firme, marcha obsesiva y free-jazz<\/em> (potenciados por el saxo alto de Pablo Hern\u00e1ndez Ramos) y aderezado por un buen n\u00famero de cambios de ritmo y matices es \u201cDoppelganger\u201d. La tensi\u00f3n inicial se torna en madeja instrumental donde todos tienen cabida en \u201cMaybe\u201d. Ambientes oscuros y disonantes y lis\u00e9rgica densidad en \u201cDeep Low\u201d.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1s pausada, reverberante y t\u00edmbrica, de orquestaci\u00f3n precisa y paisajes lunares (V\u00edctor Rodr\u00edguez) permiten a \u00c1ngel Ontalva surcar el espacio vac\u00edo en \u201cRoads to Sunrise Cities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Todos somos. Nadie posee la batuta en un debate de instrumentaci\u00f3n total en \u201cSarisin\u201d. De cadencia naif<\/em> y aura Canterbury<\/em> versa \u201cLand of opportunities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Para poner el broche final, segundas partes si fueron buenas, as\u00ed se muestra \u201cParadise Flying Snake II\u201d, donde cobra justo protagonismo el saxo soprano de Pablo Hern\u00e1ndez Ramos.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Enrique Farelo, 2021<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel Ontalva: Angel on a Tower<\/em> (OctoberXart Records, 2021)<\/p>\n

M\u00fasicos: Yolanda Alba (flauta en 2, 3, 7, 9,11), John Falcone (fagot en 1, 2, 3, 5 ,6 ,7, 9, 10, 11 ,12 y contrafagot en 8); Pablo Hern\u00e1ndez Ramos (saxo alto en 1, 6, saxo soprano en 12); Wadim Dicke (contrabajo en 4); V\u00edctor Rodr\u00edguez (piano y teclados); Amanda Pazos Cosse (bajo excepto en 4); Avelino Saavedra (bater\u00eda) y \u00c1ngel Ontalva (guitarras, mezclas, dise\u00f1o de portada y producci\u00f3n).<\/p>\n

Composiciones:<\/p>\n

1-\u201cParadise Flying Snake I\u201d, 2- \u201cSeafoam\u201d, 3-\u201cAngel on a tower\u201d, 4-\u201cLena Pillars\u201d, 5-\u201cFootsteps\u201d, 6- \u201cDoppelganger\u201d, 7-\u201cMaybe\u201d, 8-\u201cDeep Low\u201d, 9- \u201cRoads to Sunrise Cities\u201d, 10- \u201cSarisin\u201d, 11-\u201cLand of opportunities\u201d y 12-\u201cParadise Flying Snake II\u201d.<\/p>\n

Todos los temas compuestos por \u00c1ngel Ontalva, excepto \u201cDeep Low\u201d por Falcone-Rodr\u00edguez-Pazos-Saavedra-Ontalva y \u201cSarisin\u201d tradicional arreglado por Ontalva.<\/p>\n

Grabado en \u201chome studio\u201d entre el a\u00f1o 2020 y 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enrique Farelo rese\u00f1a Angel on a Tower (octoberXart Records, 2021) de \u00c1ngel Ontalva.Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17848,5,15517,1038],"tags":[8720,8719,11600,304,23836,18314,25747,8722,25748,25746],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","has-excerpt","post-57133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-enrique-farelo","category-grabaciones","category-textos","category-contenidos","tag-amanda-pazos-cosse","tag-angel-ontalva","tag-avelino-saavedra","tag-enrique-farelo","tag-john-falcone","tag-octoberxart-records","tag-pablo-hernandez-ramos","tag-victor-rodriguez","tag-wadim-dicke","tag-yolanda-alba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Angel-Ontalva_Angel-On-A-Tower.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73827,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/angel-ontalva-a-haunted-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":57133,"position":0},"title":"\u00c1ngel Ontalva: A Haunted, Hidden World Of Caves (octoberXart Records, 2023) Por Enrique Farelo [Grabaci\u00f3n de jazz]","author":"Tomajazz","date":"12 mayo, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A Haunted, Hidden World Of Caves (octoberXart Records, 2023) es la nueva grabaci\u00f3n de \u00c1ngel Ontalva. 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