Info:

La Venganza Del Agua

Artists:
Susan Campos - Fonseca
David Saravia Bolívar
José Pablo Ureña
Julián De La Chica
Luis Alfaro Bogantes
Melómana distorsión
Maria Clara Vargas-Cullell
Alejandro Gutiérrez
Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Costa Rica

Composer:
Susan Campos - Fonseca

Info:
Format: Album
Release: April 01, 2022
Catalogue: IGM-037
GTIN/EAN/UPC: 4064832926910
Producer: Irreverence Group Music

Tracks:

La venganza del agua

01. Quesintuu & Umantuu
02. Kä Nague
03. Refugio
04. Esfinge
05. La creación sin mañana
06. La venganza del agua

Album Notes:

The artist Bárbara Campos-Fonseca, sister of the composer, writes: “It is essential to understand that life is futile.  There is magic in the never ending cycle of life and death, deaths and resurrections.  Life begins and evolves in multiple different shapes: fragrant flowers, fast animals, tiny bacteria cruising along infinite oceans and, like stigmatised martyrs, all those creatures are destined to die.  Death is essential for the creation of new life.  Eternity is an absurd fantasy, a pompous and satirical Sci-fi tale.  Organic matter sacrifices itself for the benefit of what is coming after. Without death there is no evolution, nor adaptation.  Eternity feeds on what is intrinsically perishable.” 

The composer proposes a journey where the listener is invited to immerse and let be carried away by the flow of forces that humanity cannot control, forces that decompose and mutate in the face of human depredation and extraction.

Campos-Fonseca explains:

Quesintuu and Umantuu, listening to hybrid beings that inhabit a lake at the top of the Andes… Kä Nague, according to the Ngäbe-Buglé people, a vortex of water that leads us to parallel universes between lives and deaths… Refuge, in the wetlands, interspecies crochet next to the infinite ocean... The Sphinx, in the garden of Enlightenment, contemplating the decomposition of human civilization, Sisyphus, in Creation without tomorrow... in the end, only the vital noise of the machines and the cosmos…, which, as Inger Christensen wrote:

“som dybet løfter vandet
op til en kilde
løfter døden de levende
op for at drikke”

[just as the depth raises the water
towards a spring
death raises the living
for to drink]

It's The Revenge of the Water.

In this album Susan Campos-Fonseca brings together an extraordinary group of musicians and artists from Costa Rica, who materialize this journey: David Saravia-Bolivar (pianist), María Clara Vargas Cullell (harpsichord player), Luis Alfaro Bogantes (horn player), Juan Alfaro, aka. Melómana Distorsión (sound artist), Orquesta sinfónica de la Universidad de Costa Rica [Symphony Orchestra of the University of Costa Rica] conducted by Alejandro Gutiérrez, and artist José Pablo Ureña. They are accompanied by Colombian-Newyorker composer, pianist and multimedia artist, Julián De La Chica, who also collaborates in the sound design of the album.

Susan Campos Fonseca, PhD.

The Recording

Credits

Produced by Irreverence Group Music
Music by Susan Campos - Fonseca

Susan Campos - Fonseca (Piano)
David Saravia Bolívar (Piano)
José Pablo Ureña (Artist)
Julián De La Chica (Piano)
Luis Alfaro Bogantes (Horn)
Melómana distorsión (Sound Artist)
Maria Clara Vargas-Cullell (Harpsichord)
Alejandro Gutiérrez (Conductor)
Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Costa Rica (Orchestra)

Recorded by Carlos Escalante Macaya
at the School of Musical Arts
University of Costa Rica
Mixed & Sound design by Julián De La Chica
at IGMusic LAB, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Shochi Shams
Kä Nague — recorded & mixed at IGM
Brooklyn, NY, by Julián De La Chica
La creación sin mañana — recorded live & mixed
by Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Costa Rica Production
at Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica
Alejandro Gutiérrez

Program Notes by Susan Campos
Cover design by IGM
Photography Self Portrait by
Susan Campos - Fonseca

Videos by IGM
Susan Campos - Fonseca (BMI)
Manufactured and marketed by
Irreverence Group Music (Brooklyn, NY)
Made in US. Total time: 45 min
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