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Diari s​ò​nic 2022​-​23

by Murcia Parker

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2022.10.15 01:49
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2022.12.09 01:56
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2023.02.07 01:45
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2023.04.17 02:13
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Writer Eduardo Galeano repeated it over and over: in a world of plastic and noise, he preferred to be of clay and silence. Just that. It is difficult to explain why someone chooses to make instrumental music, more so when pop and rock culture has been founded on this inextricable binomial: the music and the lyrics. Perhaps there is no need to ask; perhaps it is because restless minds, like that of Sebastià Mesquida, have understood that Music —in capitals— is not the means but the goal.

The sophomore effort by Mesquida solo under the moniker Murcia Parker is eloquent and convincing evidence that instrumental music needs no other message; that voice is not a must for saying something intelligent; that lyrics are not a mandatory procedure for expressing the ideas simmering within us. This new collection maintains the electronic drive of his début, but the increasing prominence of instruments like guitar or electric bass makes it something more than ambitious: it makes it unpredictable and therefore surprising, as if the frontierland mestizo guitars of Ry Cooder were dissolved into the contemplative echoes of the most cosmic kraut.

Without being necessarily continuist, nor by any means conservative, Murcia Parker’s new offering preserves what makes this project unique amidst the current Balearic musical ecosystem: betting on songs that are apparently —I insist: apparently— sketches; genuine sonic haikus which, like short stories, rely on a robust and coherent inner structure. Before our eyes and ears, the evidence: each one of these pieces contains the soul of a bigger —and invisible— song we will never hear; Mesquida offers them to us wisely condensed into their minimal expression.

We don’t know if, as Galeano, Murcia Parker’s sonic diaries take shape from clay and silence; we do know, though, that their boldness and fearlessness defy the noxious indifference to which plastic and noise have led us.

Tomeu Canyelles
Translation: Enric Cuéllar

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released April 8, 2024

These sonic diary entries have been recorded between October 15th, 2022 and November 11th, 2023 in Alaró and Santa Maria del Camí towns. All are multitrack live recordings with no overdubs and no further processing beyond some reverb added in post-production.

Music written and performed by Sebastià Mesquida.

Mixed by Joan Llabrés.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.

Released by Espora Records

Per a en Martí, de son pare.

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