«Umsindo Omgcolile 5»: mixes made from the recordings with a 1981 mono cassette from tape at the 10th Anniversary session of Raras Músicas and at the Amphitheater of La Casa de Campo in Madrid, on March 18 and 19, 2023.

“Umsindo Omgcolile 5”
Published on March 28, 2023
Aitor Montes Odriozola & Javier Entonado (production)
Carlos del Olmo: cover design
Pet-i-Cop:
Miquel Àngel Marín: vocals, clarinet
Jose Pitarch: drums and electronics
Rubén García Bartolomé (Ruvenigue): recorder, didgeridoo, vocals.
Luis Lamadrid (image) + Javier Entonado (sound): Registration status.
Minijack-minijack cable: uncontrolled, uncontrolled, incomprehensible and random electric sounds.

THE RECORDER:
Oh, the recorder, the musical chaos, everything has to be recorded, everything deserves to be recorded.
deserves to be recorded, here the law of the funnel is no longer valid, here everything enters
everything without regard or fuss of any kind, no more reductionism, no more abstractions.
reductionism, no more abstractions that drown the world, no more going through the tube.
enough of going through the tube.
The anguish, the longing of writing is located in the chest, near the lungs, just as when you touch the
the lungs, just like when you play some high registers of the instrument.
instrument.
Raymond Hains was an ‘inaction painter’. Humor we like
it’s located in the heart area. A ‘hit and run’ lyric
run’ (hit and run). “A painting should not be considered a world in itself
world in itself, but the world itself should be seen as a painting.
seen as a painting.” (Hains)
The recorder: an instrument where the whole world fits, a poetic recycler of the found sound.
poetic recycler of found sound.
“Some radio technicians and some musicians also strive to compose a ‘found’ music.
to compose a ‘mechanized’ music. Thus, the apparatuses
first intended to record images and sounds serve today to discover other images and other sounds”.
to discover other images and other sounds. (Hains)
With automatic writing, the surrealists declared themselves ‘modest recording apparatuses’.
recording apparatuses’.
Sticking and fleeing, attraction and repulsion, tension and relaxation, strong time and weak time.
weak time.
Anti-art, others call it deconstruction, others call it pro-art,
others call it demolition and reconstruction, and one rock band is called
Einstürzende Neubauten (Tearing Down New Buildings) and others call it art criticism
call it art criticism and others call it a game.
The picture, the page conditions the writing, the size of the page conditions you, a hole in the page conditions you, a hole in the page conditions you.
conditions you, a hole in the page would condition you. You write on
pages so big that they are already exhibition paintings.
Chance as a method. Every fixed idea ends up in a codified crust that ends up
that ends up oozing words that come from fixed ideas. And you feel
a super-man because you have ideas that end up being fixed.

(Text by Miquel Àngel Marín)