Mboko

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Release Date: 13th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: 3782966
Label: ECM
Length: 59 minutes

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David Virelles: Wind Rose (Antrogofoko mokoirén)

Work length6:26

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: The Scribe (Tratado de Mpegó)

Work length7:35

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Biankoméko

Work length4:53

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Antillais (A Quintín Bandera)

Work length7:06

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Aberisún y Aberiñán

Work length4:22

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Seven, Through The Divination Horn

Work length4:47

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Stories Waiting To Be Told

Work length8:21

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Transmission

Work length8:27

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: The Highest One

Work length6:15

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

David Virelles: Èfé (A María Teresa Vera)

Work length0:39

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David Virelles (piano), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Robert Hurst (double bass), Román Díaz (african percussion)
Recorded: 2013-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

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With 'Mbókò', Cuban pianist-composer David Virelles has taken the folkloric rhythms of Afro-Cuban religious ritual and transmuted them into a 21st-century music resonating with mystery and meaning.

The main title, 'Mbókò', can mean "fundament" or "sugar cane" or "The Voice," not the human voice but The Voice that is believed in Abakuá culture to be the voice of a spirit, or spirits. Sound is an element revered in this culture, and that idea - the worship of sound itself - was a shaping force in the performances of Virelles' compositions on 'Mbókò'.

The album's subtitle, 'Sacred Music for Piano, Two Basses, Drum Set and Biankoméko Abakuá', indicates both the ritualistic intent of the ten pieces and their sound, with piano as lead voice alongside dual bass drone (played by Thomas Morgan and Robert Hurst) and the polyrhythmic percussion of a traditional trap set (Marcus Gilmore) and the all-important four-drum biankoméko kit, manned by Román Diaz. Virelles has tapped into a musical impulse that is simultaneously ancient and modern, communal and personal, meditative and propulsive. 'Mbókò' casts a spell.

David Virelles, born in 1983, was raised in Santiago de Cuba, moving to Canada in 2001 and to New York City in 2009. His studies included composition lessons with the great jazz composer-saxophonist-flutist Henry Threadgill. Virelles appeared as a sideman on two previous ECM albums: Tomasz Stanko's double-disc 'Wislawa' and Chris Potter's 'The Sirens', both released in 2013. The pianist's album 'Continuum' (Pi) was his initial exploration in the modernist refraction of Afro-Cuban ritual sounds; exotic and evocative, it wound up on many critical best-of-the-year lists in 2012.

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