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Oier Etxeberria, David Azurza, Niño De Elche, Xabier Erkizia
Locuela

Album ES 2017 on Hirugarren belarria label
Electronic and Spoken Word (Abstract, Poetry)

This record emerged from a collaborative project involving the musicians David Azurza, Francisco Contreras (El niño de Elche) and Xabier Erkizia. During the month of July 2013 a series of recordings and vocal exercises were realised in the Chapel of the Carmelites and the studio of the self-managed Bonberenea centre (both located in Tolosa), taking as their starting point notes and scores written by Oier Etxeberria in the 2012-2013 period. Locuela, defined by Saint Ignacio de Loyola as a fundamentally infraverbal manifestation, was a term that the saint introduced into the mystic terminology of the XVI century. This project explores the relations amongst the voice, space and the body, principally in the phase prior to the configuration of meaning. However, the scores used in Locuela include phrases, words and terms that refer to the theological vocation of certain economic concepts like debt, credit, accountancy and existence, all closely linked to Ignacio de Loyola’s project to meticulously administer the senses and produce a language capable of combining the fantastic with consciousness. Furthermore, the texts used in the project include two poems by Nicanor Parra, taken from his poetry collection “Sermones y predicas del Cristo de Elqui [Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui]”. This work, in which the author assumes the alter ego of Domingo Zarate Vega (1898-1971), is renowned for the ingenious way in which it evokes the paradoxes encountered by the “sacred” – anything referring to what is unnameable – when it collides with the constitution of words and language.

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	Oier Etxeberria , electronics, composed by, album by
	David Azurza voc, lead vocals, album by
	Niño De Elche voc, lead vocals, album by
	Xabier Erkizia bvoc, g, har, *1975 ES producer, post production, electronics, album by

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