1980-82 by francisco lópez
For nearly a decade, starting in 1980, I worked almost exclusively with walkman recorders and cheap cassette players. From the beginning, sound recordings were intuitively for me “worlds in themselves”, always markedly different from the original “reality”, always full of their own thrilling features. I developed my own, very simple -but very efficient- techniques for sound transformation using only cassettes. I couldn’t afford the prototypical “experimental” tools of those times: reel-to-reel recorders, synthesizers, rhythm boxes and the like. With hindsight, this limitation turned out to be a great advantage and an important lesson, that has remained vividly present for me until today: the most essential tools are spiritual, not technical. [Francisco López]
Tracklist
| 1. | 1980-82 - track 1 | 3:02 |
| 2. | 1980-82 - track 2 | 2:35 |
| 3. | 1980-82 - track 3 | 2:23 |
| 4. | 1980-82 - track 4 | 6:13 |
| 5. | 1980-82 - track 5 | 12:08 |
| 6. | 1980-82 - track 6 | 21:30 |
Credits
Recorded in Madrid between 1980 and 1982.
Digitally remastered from the original cassette masters at ‘mobile messor’ (Amsterdam, Palermo, Mexico City, Berlin), 2009-2012.
Sleeve images: original drawings by Emma McNally.
First released on CD ('nowhere') in May 2015 - Edition 300 copies.
(c) francisco lópez 1980-2015 – www.franciscolopez.net
Immaterial reissue by nowhere [worldwide] 2018
License
All rights reserved.
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realm of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty+ years he has realized hundreds of live performances, projects with environmental recordings, and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide.