Треклист 01. Simiatu(02:45)
02. Huashca de corales(02:35)
03. Bailando me despido(02:35)
04. La naranja(02:49)
05. Negra piedad(03:05)
06. Píllaro viejo(02:50)
07. Poncho verde(02:49)
08. Anacu de mi guambra(02:26)
09. Isinche grande(02:43)
10. Cotopaxi(03:05)
11. Manuco(02:43)
12. Cashari shunguito(02:32)
13. Pedacito de corazón(02:47)
14. Tondero(02:45)
15. Árbol frondoso(02:47)
16. En la casa del prioste(02:49)
17. Marco Pungo(02:49)
18. Rosa María(02:57)
19. Pujilí(03:14) total / 00:52:54
• Dilson de Souza...
The out-of-this-world recordings of Dilson de Souza, leading a kind of tropical chamber jazz on leaves from a ficus tree. Dilson was from Barra do Pirai, in the Brazilian countryside; moving to Rio as a young man, where he worked in construction. He recorded his first record in 1954, for RCA Victor. He travelled to Quito around 1957, soon hooking up with Benitez & Valencia, who introduced him to the CAIFE label. Dilson played the leaf open, resting on his tongue, hands free, with his mouth as the resonator. Though a leaf can also be played rolled or folded in half, this method allowed for more precision, a tethered brilliance. A picked ficus leaf stays fresh, crisp and clean-toned for around ten hours. He could play eight compositions, four at each end, before it was spent.
Biluka plays trills and vibratos effortlessly, with utterly pure pitch, acrobatically sliding into notes and changing tone on the fly. In Manuco, he leads Los Caníbales into a mysterious landscape on a rope pulled from an Andean spaghetti western, and corrals and teases them into a dialogue. A leaf, a harp, a xylophone, and a rondador — joined in Bailando Me Despido (Dancing As I Say Goodbye) by a saucy organ, doing sloshed call-and-response. In Anacu de Mi Guambra, Biluka shows his full range of antics, hiccuping melodically over a set of magic tricks. His expressiveness was boundless. The eucalyptus leaf is popular among Aboriginal Australians. In China, they’ve played leaves for 10,000 years. In Cambodia, people play the slek, a leaf plucked from either the sakrom or the khnoung tree. But ain’t nobody like Biluka, ever. Astounding music.
foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2023-04-05 15:20:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Biluka y Los Canibales / Leaf-Playing in Quito, 1960-1965 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR11 -0.20 dB -12.86 dB 2:44 01-Simiatu DR11 -1.48 dB -14.95 dB 2:34 02-Huashca de corales DR12 -0.64 dB -14.34 dB 2:34 03-Bailando me despido DR12 -1.10 dB -14.67 dB 2:49 04-La naranja DR11 -0.20 dB -12.86 dB 3:04 05-Negra piedad DR10 -1.19 dB -13.44 dB 2:50 06-Píllaro viejo DR9 -0.65 dB -11.77 dB 2:49 07-Poncho verde DR10 -0.26 dB -12.14 dB 2:25 08-Anacu de mi guambra DR10 -0.20 dB -11.89 dB 2:42 09-Isinche grande DR12 -0.20 dB -13.38 dB 3:04 10-Cotopaxi DR10 -0.67 dB -12.88 dB 2:43 11-Manuco DR11 -0.20 dB -12.64 dB 2:32 12-Cashari shunguito DR11 -0.80 dB -12.69 dB 2:46 13-Pedacito de corazón DR10 -0.46 dB -11.86 dB 2:44 14-Tondero DR9 -0.71 dB -11.60 dB 2:47 15-Árbol frondoso DR10 -0.20 dB -11.68 dB 2:49 16-En la casa del prioste DR12 -0.22 dB -13.15 dB 2:49 17-Marco Pungo DR10 -0.39 dB -12.28 dB 2:56 18-Rosa María DR12 -1.07 dB -14.56 dB 3:14 19-Pujilí -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 19 Official DR value: DR11 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 716 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================
