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The Incognito Traveller
Ravine

Album MX 2010 on Discos Konfort label
Electronic and Jazz (Abstract, IDM)

The Incognito Traveller – Ravine Explorations into various human states of consciousness The Incognito Traveller presents a profound exploration into the deepest crevices of the human subconscious on “Ravine”. Each song writhes and meanders into the listener in different ways and the album as a whole becomes an intense voyage, its paths converging where all inaccessible memories lie. “Ravine” is a work conceptually founded on Milton Erickson’s “A Special Inquiry with Aldous Huxley into the Nature and Character of Various States of Consciousness” where writer Aldous Huxley is guided into a deep hypnosis. In such state, he describes meeting with his own self at different ages and revisiting his own stages of growth and intellectual development. The Incognito Traveller translates into music the descent deep within, way beyond memories, into the purest definition of self. The resulting work is characterized by a peculiar curiosity-provoking obscurity, permeated with glimmering instants of clarity. The production is designed to create, maintain, and heighten, a sense of incomplete understanding by bringing together aperture and space in the song structures with a balanced layering of melody, rhythm and field recordings. This altogether avoids the external claustrophobic feeling of a dark room by rather amplifying the striking openness that exists within the mind and therefore inviting the listener to explore those broad inner spaces. “Ravine” works as a specific sequence of songs that come together to form a discourse much more grand than the sum of its parts. There is a natural flow in the succession of songs that recalls the process of drowning into a hypnotic state; from the uneasy search for direction, to the fall into a deep hypnosis, to the resulting positive intellectual awakening.

Musicians

	The Incognito Traveller , album by
	César Juárez Joyner producer, author, piano, keyboards, rhodes
	Enrico Gianfranchi producer, author, guitar
	Dan Shook , flute
	Malcolm Aiken tr, fh, GB trumpet
	Itzam Cano cb, b, MX double bass
	Gerardo Gopar , saxophone, flute
	Alán Santos , vibraphone

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