AVANT #1
Esplendor Geométrico. Part II
Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
AVANT #1 reviews the artistic career of Esplendor Geométrico. The second part offers a musical selection of his works from 1981 until today.
Born at the end of the 1970s as a reaction to the hedonism of Madrid’s New Wave (which over time became to be known as the “Movida”), Esplendor Geométrico is one of the first cases of independence in the history of Spanish music. Theirs was not only a financial and structural, but also a creative independence, and their music, rooted in an aggressive aesthetic, founded on rhythm as a means of expression and free of elitist pretensions, stands out in the music scene of recent decades as the chief influence for the development of countless branches of experimental music around the world. With their feet on the ground, the members of Esplendor Geométrico struck a sincere and lively attitude that eschewed formalities, especially those of “industrial music”. Arturo Lanz, founder of the group and a resident Shanghai today, has referred to it as “folk music made with electronic instruments”.
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