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P I A N O M A R -Mixtape- 2 0 2 4- Mixcloud

Pianomar mixtape

A mixtape based on Bilal Dídac P. Lagarriga's novel Pianomar (published in Spanish by Galeria H2O, Barcelona, 2024). A 1 hour mix of styles from african jazz to brazilian beats, minimal piano, electronica and experimental music.

https://www.mixcloud.com/bilal_didac/pianomar-mixtape/

Download high res image of Pianomar dj session

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N I G H T U R N S - 2 0 2 2 - P U B L I S H E D - B Y - C E L L U L E 7 5 / D E K O R D E R

Nighturns

18 tracks, 53 minutes

Un Caddie Renversé dans l'Herbe aka Bilal Dídac P. Lagarriga: mbira, kalimba, balaphon, vibraphone, melodica, flute, electronica.

Collaborations:
o Du Balimb (xilophone and marimba on tracks 1, 2, 5)
o Maktar Diop (voice on track 7)
o Daara Touba taalibés (Koranic school pupils) (chant on track 9)
o Djibi Fall (voice on track 15)
o Cheikh Fall (chant on track 10)
o Mbacke Baye Falls (chant on track 18)
o Eulàlia Fanar (cello on track 4)
o Ahmed G (clarinet on track 5 and saxo on track 14)
o Pela (voice on track 3 reciting the poem "Kulu-Kulu di Lalayu" by Haji Hasan Mustapa)

Soundscapes and ritual chants recorded in Mbacke, Diourbel and Touba (Senegal), 2017-2020.
Piano (tracks 5 and 12) recorded in Radio Contrabanda, Barcelona, 1995.
All tracks edited in Barcelona, 2021-2022.

Artwork & Mastering by Marc Richter

https://cellule75.bandcamp.com/album/nighturns

. . . NIGHTURNS REVIEWS . . .

in Nighturns, the latest recording by Un Caddie Renversé dans l’Herbe, the moniker of Bilal Dídac P. Lagarriga, the combination of African instruments – such as balaphon, mbira and kalimba – together with the use of found voices and traditional classical instruments, results in a powerful, highly involving and passionate amalgam. The influences that go into this project are very diverse. The sounds are mixed and processed using computers and software that make it decidedly more practical and immediate to compare the acoustic recordings of varying quality that are the result of explorations in specific locations and experiences with distinctly exotic and delimited cultures and social practises. It is these random field recordings or recordings sought out in precise contexts that determine the grain of the various compositions, which also cultivate an instrumental wisdom made of accuracy, sensitivity and love of a lively and organic flow. It is “a self-made music”,” says the Barcelona-based Brazilian master, unintentionally subverting the Burroughsian maxim that the author is the one “who is on the spot”,” a place – both physical and mental – where it is possible to change the order of the elements without substantially altering the essence of things. The things, in this case, are nothing more than simple sounds, pure vibrational energy captured and detourned for a more structured and coherent listening. Lagarriga is no stranger to using ethnic instruments and rhythmic structures combined with electronics, techniques that were also used on Like A Packed Cupboard But Quite…, an album released on Dekorder in 2004. Memory for Lagarriga is at the same time a dis-memory, music that has been lost and then found again, a nocturnal drifting through the sandy, dimly lit streets of West Africa or through the retrieval of old recordings, for example of devotional poems recited by pupils of a Koranic school or broadcasts from an Arabic radio station. There is intricate and suggestive percussion, ritual chants and organic sounds. And yet, the overall impression one gets from listening is one of deconstructive minimalism, somewhat magical, but still with a decidedly conceptual and combinatorial feel.
Neural, Critical digital culture and media arts (Italia)

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15 années se sont écoulées depuis le dernier album de Bilal Dídac P. Lagarriga aka Un Caddie Renversé dans l’Herbe et Nighturns. 15 anes c’est long, mais c’est le temps qu’il a fallu à l’artiste pour retrouver l’envie de composer. Une éternité parsemée d’expériences personnnelles et de découvertes, de voyages et d’écriture, de pertes et de rencontres.
Né au Brésil et installé à Barcelone depuis son enfance, Un Caddie Renversé dans l’Herbe croise les cultures de l’Afrique aux déconstructions d’une dystopie éclatée, futurisme minimal gorgé de percussions éclatantes et de sonorités organiques à la beauté universelle.
Chez lui, le monde est une cour des miracles aux mouvements excentrés, axes en pivotement aux allures de mantras universels.
Nighturns est le journal de bord d’une existence passée à se nourrir des autres et construire une personnalité multiple aux ramifications entrecoupées d’intériorité et de lumière, de philosophie et d’humanité.
Les loops et les field recordings donnent à entendre un monde sublimé par l’acte de création, les balafons, xylophones et autres rythmiques étoffent l’ensemble avec élégance, fuyant par la petitesse pour nous faire pénétrer dans l’immensité de la bienveillance. Vital.
 
Roland Torres, Silence and Sound (France)

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Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. That's what I thought when I saw the same Un Caddie Renversé dans l'Herbe again, after many years of silnce. I don't know why Didac P. Lagarriga didn't release any music between 2006 and 2022. I reviewed many of his works before, if not all, going by what Discogs lists. One of the labels releasing his music, was Marc Richter's Dekorder label. These days Richter has a new label, Celulle 75, and it's time for another release by Lagarriga. In the intervening years he
comverted to the Islam, and started to investigate Africa's spirituality, especially West-Africa. He also pusblished twelve books in Spanish and Catalan, poetry and essays. All of this he works into his music, which is a strange but exciting wild ride of music, atmospheres, chants, electronics bleeps. The result is one of the stranger releases I heard in a while. Inconsistency is my essence, is what the music says to me. Everything is laid out sparsely as each of the eightteen pieces is a miniamlist sketch of a few sounds. Think some chanting, field recording (maybe; or Lagarriga's doing? I don't know), tribal rhytms, but sometimes fed through a synth, adding an alien charcater to the sound. Some kalimba sounds, a mbira, balaphon, flute, spoken word. Imagine a travelogue from Africa, but taking you occasionally outer space. Maybe you can say this is a personal album (aren't all albums personal?), as if the composer took a bunch of snapshots, to be reminded later on of the experience,
but back home, it seemed that some of these recordings were corrupted; or if the recordist took the liberty to add some sounds, maybe on the spot, as if an interaction with local musicians. The more I hear this CD, the less I know about it, or understand it. But all the same, I found this a highly fascinating release.

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Live at Espai Nyamnyam - Mieres, 12-2023

Barcelona, 2022. Photo by Isaac Prunera

Argentina, 2000.

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Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2014
by Geert-Jan Hobijn
With IlpoVaisanen, John Hegre, Un Caddie Renversé dans l'Herbe, Muslimgauze, Jim O'Rourke,
Staalplaat soundsystem

This release consists of a book, a record player, a 7" single and a small electronic sound device.
The 48-page book shows some of Hobijns work through several photos, an introduction by Douglas Kahn, and an essay by Jorinde Seijdel.
The 7" single contains 20 locked grooves on each side that you can play manually using the needle attached to the bookcover or using a regular turntable. The locked grooves on the a-side are taken from the Yokomono loop records and the locked grooves on the b-side are from Yokomono 02 (empty ) so you can scratch them and creat your own rhythms.
The electronic sound device is an instrument that can be played by moving your fingers across the light-sensitive sensor.

https://staalplaat.bandcamp.com/album/witteveen-bos-art-technology-award-2014

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"Atlas saltA (map lies, border lies)" - minicd (Dekorder, 2005. Hamburg)

"Like a packed cupboard but quite..." - LP/CD - (Dekorder, 2004. Hamburg)



"Now there's a weird taste in my mouth" minicd (dekorder, 2003. Hamburg)



"Some Nenu Songs" - CD - (ooze.b\E2p, 2002. Barcelona)



"Polyhedric tetrapak" feat. remixes by Dj Olive, Alejandra & Aeron, Stephen Vitiello, Erik m and OnCe11
- CD - (ooze.b\E2p, 2001. Barcelona)



"Totlop pak" - CD - (ooze.b\E2p, 2000. Barcelona)

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