WALTER SMETAK & CONJUNTO DE MICROTONS - INTERREGNO Vinyl LP

Buh Records presents a reissue of Walter Smetak & Conjunto de Microtons' Interregno, originally published by Discos Marcus Pereira in 1980. The second album by the legendary Swiss artist and composer, based in Brazil, Walter Smetak, opened a new field of exploration within his own musical horizon. With the publication of Smetak (1974), a musical universe had been defined where Afro-Brazilian ritual traditions, studies of microtonality and open processes of collective improvisation converged, always under the influence of theosophy, which allowed him to generate a personal mythology, a religious-esoteric worldview that served as a framework for the creation of a musical symbolic universe embodied in the construction of more than 150 instruments of his own invention that he called plásticas sonoras. In Interregno (1980), Smetak radicalized some of these processes. Produced by Carlos Pita, this album features microtonal guitars, performed collectively -- another step in the use of