Cergio Prudencio: Antología 1: Obras para la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos
BR181 (Buh Records, LP, 2 discs)
FIRST RELEASE (23 February 2024)
Chapters: 1 + 6 + 1 + 1
℗ 2024 Buh Records
© 2024 Buh Records
Main country of recording: Bolivia
Reviewer: Keith Bramich
Review of Cergio Prudencio: Antología 1: Obras para la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos published on 15 January 2024
Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos
Cergio Prudencio (born 1955):
LP1 Side A
1 Cantos insurgentes (2012)
LP1 Side B
2 Tríptica (1985-86) - I / II / III
Otra ciudad (2005)
3 una frescura antigua que se desplaza
4 es el aire en las calles
5 no la soledad de lo efímero
6 la blanca propiedad de lo vencido
7 como una noche acumulada
LP2 Side C
8 La ciudad (1980)
LP2 Side D
9 Cantos funerales (2015)
The work of Bolivian composer Cergio Prudencio (born La Paz, 1955) is indissolubly linked to the project of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (Experimental Orchestra of Native Instruments, OEIN), which he co-founded in 1980 and of which he is the emeritus director. It constitutes one of the most challenging adventures in the music that has emerged in Bolivia and Latin America. The OEIN is the result of the incorporation of Aymara musical traditions into the realm of contemporary music to produce a new sonic world. In the composer's words, it is about '...finding in the indigenous conception of music, elements of change and transformation, to establish a historical continuity'. This incorporation is not only based on using native instruments but also involves integrating their socio-historical context and philosophies from the Andean indigenous world.