Guitarist and composer Diego Caicedo, born in Colombia but working in Barcelona, steps nimbly between the worlds of jazz, avant-garde improvisation, noise, and metal. On Seis Amorfismos, he premieres a six-part work featuring his own highly distorted electric guitar, an extreme metal vocalist reciting poetry in hellish tones, and a string quartet. The album also includes three solo pieces that expand not only Caicedo’s own improvisatory vocabulary, but the musical world established by the first six tracks.
“Every so often a release comes along that purports to be ‘like nothing you’ve ever heard.’ After engaging in an appropriate amount of skepticism, we take a listen and — more frequently than not — the album falls short of this selling point. But not every time, and Diego Caicedo’s latest proves to be one of these rare exceptions…Stylistically, Caicedo’s writing and playing manage to bridge the gap between modern classical, metal, and free-improv. Has anyone done something similar in the past? Not to my knowledge. Accordingly, I will use the word ‘unique’ to label Seis Amorfismos, an album that is very well done.” — Avant Music News
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