Member Since: 11/14/2004
Band Website: rep.no.sapo.pt/ernesto_diaz_infante.htm
Band Members: Ernesto Diaz-Infante: bajo sexto & acoustic steelstring guitar
The Neshama Alma Band:
Ernesto Diaz-Infante bajo sexto
Marjorie Sturm video/flute
The Neshama Alma Band is a San Francisco-based collaboration of composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante and video-artist Marjorie Sturm. Their latest work, "The Sun Heals Life," is an experiential performance that provokes private reflection in a public space around retribution, forgiveness, and war. On a bajo sexto guitar, Diaz-Infante performs trance, mantra-strumming inspired by Native American and other rhythms. The minimalist video accompaniment focuses the mind to the hypnotic soundscape, breeding a personal and collective visualization to the current dilemmas. This performance is best absorbed by a ruminative participant who will engage with the Band of spirits who are being conjured for guidance.
Video clip: Sun Heals Life
mp3 release:
Mirrors on the Crisis of the Moment (Stasisfeld)
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Influences: Charlemagne Palestine,
Ostad Elahi,
Alice Coltrane,
Wadada Leo Smith,
Stephen L. Mosko,
John Zorn,
Pauline Oliveros,
Terry Riley,
Silvestre Revueltas,
Carlos Chavez,
Leo Brouwer,
Conlon Nancarrow,
Margaret Mayer,
Jeremy Haladyna,
Dr. Carl Christensen,
Phill Niblock,
Sun-Ra,
John Cage,
Steffen Basho-Junghans,
Derek Bailey,
Morton Feldman,
Jandek,
Joseph Beuys.
Sounds Like: "Ernesto Diaz-Infante's steelstring guitar pushes and shoves itself into a trance, like a spaced-out raga-master..." --Tokafi
"a composer and performer with an instinctive way of creating 'sound paintings" that stress mood and feelings. his atonal adventures here sometimes recall the work of British free guitar icon Derek Bailey." --Josef Woodard, LA Times
Record Label: Pax Recordings
Type of Label: Indie