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Quintela

Carme López

A 6 track minimal/glitch album (39m 58s) — released March 29th 2024 on Warm Winters Ltd.

#electronic #minimal-glitch

'Quintela', the debut album by Carme López, a performer, teacher and researcher of traditional oral music from Galicia, is a new experimental work for Galician bagpipe. Influenced by the approach of composers like Éliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros, the Spanish composer creates slowly modulating sound environments, and stretches the sonic the possibilities of the bagpipe to its absolute limit. 'Quintela' is structured in four movements, plus a prologue and an epilogue, which serve as a link to the contemporary language of the instrument.

The bagpipe is strongly tied to traditional musics; its use in different genres and musical contexts is extremely limited and unimaginative. 'Quintela' brings it to a wholly unknown field, decontextualising the bagpipe in order to elevate a personal approach, and leaving behind its male-dominated past (in which it relates to ideas of prestige, dominance or carries even sexual connotations). López expertly demonstrates its grandeur and breadth; the music on 'Quintela' ranges from barely audible sounds of air passing through the hide bag through rhythmical use of its reeds to all-encompassing drones with complex harmonic structures and vibrant overtones.

The narrative arc focuses on the composer's past, its people and places, and could be conceived as a journey in and of itself. A homage to those in our memories, but also a step into the unknown, 'Quintela' is an ambitious, graceful and captivating debut.

On Quintela, López not only subverts our expectations of what a bagpipe sounds like, she opens entirely new avenues of possibility for the instrument. - Bandcamp Daily Matthew Blackwell

That may well end up being the legacy of this remarkable album: the joy and openness that is available if you are willing to play – and listen to – the bagpipes in new ways. - KLOF Mag Thomas Blake

Quintela carries resonance beyond Galician music. It questions what we mean by traditional. The word itself implies a certain inertness, a sense of something time-locked and unchanging. A view from an outsider looking for esoteric sounds and missing the contexts and flux they live in. López’s music challenges us to think differently. - The Quietus Daryl Worthington

Music that bypasses rational thought and taps straight into the subconscious. - Cyclic Defrost Bob Baker Fish

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