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The musical treatment is specifically chamber music, as the compositions are written for different groups of acoustic instruments.
The album "Music for empty screen" is a sample of the different instrumentations that can take the music of this composer, from the Suite "Besos Abrazos y Mordiscones" written for Flute, Clarinet, Cello and Piano;until the work Pesebre or Amigos 1 y 2 where the writing was extended to 7 instruments (Violin, Cello, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet) plus Piano, Guitar, Bass and Percussion as rhythm section instruments.
The style of music contained in these works are part of a genre rather "cinema", with colors of Argentine folklore, the tango, and other influences of the music of Uruguay and Brazil, which influenced the music of Buenos Aires some time thus giving rise to a new style concept within this genre.
"Music for blank screens" was chosen in December 2010 ALBUM OF THE MONTH by CLUB DEL DISCO.
CLUB DEL DISCO Magazine said:
"The author, director and pianist, takes no typecasting with a proposal magnificent, full of attractive melodies and rhythms. To close your eyes and see the movie you want."
"A conceptual work, poetic and deep, the first disc of Cinematic Machine The instrumental music used to say many things, not enough words. But we must begin to explain this great work of Exequiel Mantega from the orchestration."
"..And this has to do with how to write Mantega, which combines gestures of popular music derived from jazz, or rock as well, with the tango and more academic symphonic language, in short, is fed from a varied palette of colors that are always in progress, in motion. "
"Music written is true, and faithfully executed and emotion, is like that, what about the call that classical music (or written tradition, say). But the characteristics of the disc and how to weave the pieces, the internal rhythm that is generated on site, it feels closer to film language to the concert hall.
Like a film without pictures, just sound. Movies for the blind. This of course is suggested from the name, listening to empty screen, which fits like a glove. But is the perception that generates the sequence of music. In fact, the listener probably will not stop calling to see how each theme is not important. The work is heard as a whole which is very difficult to remove a fragment. Do not resist: we must always listen to the whole, the opposite would like to see one day a scene release of a movie ... "
All songs are composedby Exequiel Mantega
1. Amigos ( part 1 )
2. Amigos ( part 2 )
3. Luana
4. Intrusos
5. Eterno Sábado
6. Pesebre
7. Amomiir
Suite:
8. Besos
9. Abrazos
10. Mordiscones
11. Candombe para los pájaros
12. Media Luna
Recording: Estudios Cosentino (Octubre 2008)
and Estudios FORT MUSIC (Febrero 2009)
Mix & Mastering: Lomas Records
by Gustavo Corrado and Gabo De Piero
Design: Angelina Sánchez
General Production: Exequiel Mantega
( agenda )
2011
18 de Abril / 20:00hs
ENSAYO ABIERTO / WORK IN PROGRESS
2 de Mayo / 20:00hs
ENSAYO ABIERTO / WORK IN PROGRESS
16 de Mayo / 20:00hs
ENSAYO ABIERTO / WORK IN PROGRESS