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Finis Africae
El Pulso de la Madera
Glossy Mistakes (GLOSSY013)
Release date: Jun 23, 2023, Spain
Unreleased work from Finis Africae together with the reissue of their first album “Prima Travesía”. A deep trip of the roots of organic ambient.
“Pulso de la Madera” comes as the definitive official reissue of the first album by the legendary band, along with previously unreleased remastered material, on a double LP with extensive liner notes and previously unseen pictures of the band. Essential to revisit the work of a band that inspired fourth world and organic ambient as we know it today; these tunes sound immersive and still contemporary.
On their short but influential career, Finis Africae proposed an informal and decentralized model of creativity that was decades ahead of current practices linked to technological advances; they explored unknown worlds and imagined landscapes of the “fourth world” apart from their present; they neither affirmed nor denied any of the labels they were to assign to them (“New Age”, “ethnic music”, “world music”, etc.); they recreated, used, and nourished foreign cultures without fear.
And most importantly – they shaped a sound “finis”. Your own space. Where there were no rules. A dimension in which the collective was submerged in long sessions of improvisation; where they could be goblins and magical entities; a place where they could imagine scales and structures unreal; where they could play any instrument in the known world; where they could tour the Mediterranean, Africa, and the Middle East in a blink of an eye; where they could be themselves without caring about anything that happened outside.
The unreleased tracks come as a careful selection of a deep-dive over hundred tracks and demos, compiled by Urba and Glossy Mario. The license comes from Juan Alberto Arteche’s family.
A1
Radio Tarifa
A2
El Secreto de las 12
A3
Luna
A4
Zoo Zulu
B1
Juana y Rosalía
B2
Hybla
B3
Managua
B4
Bahía de los Genoveses
C1
El Viento que Mece los Juncos
C2
Costa de la Muerte
C3
Petróleo, Petróleo
C4
Las Reglas de la Regata
D1
El Viaje de Iradier
D2
Alma Ata
D3
Los Restos del Naufragio
D4
El Pulso de la Madera
D5
Geosinclal