Tour Tapes by Federico Durand

'As a musician, and as a listener and collector, I enjoy the table full of releases that artists set up during their concerts. For me, fanzines, posters, tapes and limited-edition CDs from independent labels are objects of great beauty. Its modesty tell us about careful craftsmanship and love for music.

Thanks to Home Normal, we have together released Tour Tapes, an album that compiles three of my works: “Adormidera”, a souvenir cassette from my European tour; “Música para Manuel”, a tape from my first musical travel to Japan and “Pavel”, from my second trip to Japan.

It is a very limited edition of two CDs, with an austere and precious design illustrated with a photo that my aunt Mirta took at my grandparents' house in 1977. An object that holds music that I love very much, released together for the first time in this format and mastered by my friend Ian Hawgood. There are long pieces and very short ones; acoustic and electronic instruments, experiments with tapes, rustic, recorded in my old house in Buenos Aires and in my home in La Cumbre, a mountain town in Argentina.

It is true that music allows us to travel within ourselves, remember forgotten dreams and even inhabit that liminal moment in which we are neither asleep nor awake. Tour Tapes is also a field-book of the places I visited, a postcard of the friends I met, forests, book and record stores, venues, cities, alleys, homes, gardens and temples. A journey that, as the poet Matsuo Bashō wanted, leads to distant towns by secondary roads.'

- Federico Durand

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CD 1

Adormidera • European Tour 2012

1. Adormidera

2. Niebla, montaña, pinos

Música para Manuel • Japanese Tour 2014

1. I

2. II

CD 2

Pavel • Japanese Tour 2017

1. Pléyades

2. La cesta de mimbre

3. Pavel

4. Fiesta de los brotes azules

5. El hechizado

Through this album Home Normal releases the music that accompanied me as a very limited cassette souvenir on my tours.

I want to express my gratitude to Ian, Home Normal & the old and new friends I met on the back roads to far towns.

Federico Durand

La Cumbre, Argentina

Tracklist

1.	Adormidera	15:48

2.	Niebla, montaña, pinos	16:08

3.	Música para Manuel I	13:39

4.	Música para Manuel II	13:42

5.	Pléyades	1:54

6.	La cesta de mimbre	8:05

7.	Pavel	12:28

8.	Fiesta de los brotes azules	2:03

9.	El hechizado	19:42

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