“Dejemos turbarnos”

Pechitos Ecuestres (Equestrian Chests) is an instrumental/vocal trio from Uruguay. Founded in 2006, Pechitos consists of the three Montevideo-born musicians and composers: Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz, Juan Martín López and Marcelo Rilla Sánchez, who are among the most active young figures in the Southern Cone New Music scene. Having performed at national and international premieres of works by Latin American and European composers such as Alcides Lanza, Osvaldo Budón, Gerardo Gandini and Louis Andriessen, Pechitos Ecuestres has also been performing improvisational-composed music in a great number of urban and rural venues across the Uruguayan urban and pseudo-urbanized territory, within the departments of Montevideo, Colonia, and Rocha.

Individually and together, each of the musicians clearly share a common thread within an understanding of musical production. This thread, or aesthetic, can be shortly defined as a particular taste for the proliferation and germinability of so called “lateral” instrumental techniques. It should be mentioned that this aesthetic is largely informed by the strong influence that choral music represents in Uruguay, which is based upon a positive regard for musical “amateurism.” As new performances and contexts arise, Pechitos Ecuestres enjoys the need to adapt to new conditions and contradictions of the physical and social spaces within which they arrive to play their music, thus constantly coming up with different instrumental and technological ad hoc approaches. Through this iteration of “emergency” performances, these ad hoc decisions progressively accumulate and crystallize, turning into fictional “traditions,” a number of which we conserve and expose in new contexts.

Date: Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Time: 5 to 7 PM performance
Location: MAC650 Artspace, 650 Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457

Also, be sure to tune in to La Pipa de la Paz on WESU 88.1 FM, or streaming live at WESUFM.ORG on Tuesday, November 3rd for a “live” interview and performance broadcast with Pechitos Ecuestres.