LUZ AZUL

TRACKLISTING


A1. Luz Azul - Signals
A2. Luz Azul - Secret Games
B1. Luz Azul - Chaya Sa'la
B2. Luz Azul - La Fete
B3. Luz Azul - Recollecting The Swarm





INFO


Luz Azul is a group started by LA-based vocal and performance artist Anna Homler (ak a Breadwoman) together with musicians Marcos Fernandes and Robert Montoya in 200 7. On this record they compose their own mesmerising cosmic universe where the h ypnotic speaking in tongue voice of Anna Homler blends mesmerising together with the sound of her found toys intensified by the shamanistic percussion of Marcos and the pulsating electronics of Montoya.

As fellow percussionists a nd sound artists, Marcos Fernandes and Robert Montoya's collaborations began in 1983 and ran the gamut from ambient to noise, rock to electronica to improvisati on. Both were founding members of Trummerflora, a collective of creative musici ans based in San Diego from 1999 to 2009.

All three artists were acti ve in the improvised music scene in Southern California and met at Spring Reverb 2006, an annual festival of experimental music curated by the Trummerflra Colle ctive. At the time, Fernandes was experimenting with processed percussion as wel l as phonography and samples while Montoyawas exploring improvisational possibil ities on the computer.

Fernandes and Homler expressed their mutual in terest in collaborating but it was not until the fall of 2007 that they performe d a series of concerts together. Pleased with the results, they performed togeth er again in the spring of 2008 with the addition of Montoya. There was chemistry and the trio promptly decided to enter the studio to capture their collective m agic. The session yielded the music found on Luz Azul.

Anna Homler - voice, pocket theremin, sample sticks, whistles, assorted dry and squeaky
< br />objects, greeting cards, wood devil, tiny metals and motors and potato slic er

Marcos Fernandes - percussion & electronics

Robert Mont oya - electronics