Elisabet Curbelo: Resonance Unbound

Mixing electronics with her voice, composer Elisabet Curbelo brings together a musical mosaic with sounds and tones from various latitudes and longitudes, all with a modern sensibility. So, yes, you may be taken to Spain for some foot stomping Andalusian music and dancing, but the synth loops and textures of “Fantasia Flamenca” makes for earth shaking results. Likewise, the static noise of “Roxanne’nin Donusumu” sounds almost like a dragon breathing down your throat, with kaleidoscopic strings and abstract voices take you to dark alleys on “Kara Toprak”. Fluffy woodwinds from the RENGA Ensemble veer around the banging copper plates of an open market during “L’anello” with Tommy Babin supplying subtones of magma on his rumbling bass on “Epulos”. These are places that Rick Steves will not be taking you to, as they are not for the casual traveler.

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