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Electronic jazz, ambient and urban jungle held by the hand of Gat, from Barcelona, and the newyorker Mark Cunningham.
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Raeo is the result of the meeting between a genuine and real survivor of the new-yorker no-wave, and one of the creators of, among other things, the punk of Barcelona. Trumpet player Mark Cunningham (ex-Mars, ex-Don King), and bassist Gat (ex-Error Genético, ex-Buildings) are Raeo's "yoke".
Raeo was born in Barcelona in 1991, with the premise of creating instrumental music which mixed jazz's formal freedom and its ability of evocation with any kind of sound: from ethnic to industrial music, passing through noise, hip-hop or dub.More interested in the creation of climates and textures than in the mere instrumental virtuosity, Raeo sounds "thick", "reverberating" and brilliantly dark; Gat's filtered bass provides a smooth path where Cunningham's trumpet strolls, while drawing arabesque pictures which either refer us to traditional film noir scores or make us revisiting classical such as " Bésame Mucho" or Mars' " Helen Forsdale". The cinematographic qualities of this duet's music are strengthened in the live global show "The Body Tapes", where Raeo introduce their second album "Body Loops" and where it is included the collaboration of the video- artist Josep María Jordana. Raeo is a group which prefers hinting than exhibiting.

Jesús Brotons.

 
 
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  • El Diablo (Single, G3G, 1992)
  • Adiós Júpiter (CD, G3G, 1994)
  • Words Are Worms / Most Na Savi (Single, Amanita, 1997)
  • Body Loops (CD, G3G, 1999)
 
 
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"Body Loops contains Kinesthesia, the closest thing to a hit ever written by Raeo and the most exciting four minutes of the year that ends. As it has been said: monumental." (Oriol Rossell - ROCK DE LUX).

"Their alchemichal combination of noise and melody turns to be sometimes as magical and sometimes as ghostly, placing itself in between of the isolationism and the free-jazz. And when Mark's trumpet navigates among the noises' tangle, the effect is a really fascinating one." (Luis Llés - EL PAIS de las TENTACIONES).

"After almost five years of editorial silence, Raeo, duet from Barcelona, comes back with a record that goes beyond any kind of formal contention, to spread through ambient, funk and jazz's fissures. An opus rich in textures and slippery forms. A specimen unique on its species." (AJOBLANCO).

"Body Loops is a 40 minutes narrative voyage which starts from the abstract matter and ends in the organic one, in order to confirm itself as this year's best film. They write, they direct and they perform: Raeo." (FACTORY).

"Raeo is a project that joins jazz on its most free side with experimental electronic music to construct fascinating sonorous landscapes. Their concerts introduce a splendid multi-media show with impacting images projected over the musicians." (SEÑAS - DIARIO ALTO ARAGÓN).

"Raeo is an acknowledged instrumental duet expert in unforeseeable music and sounds free from the conventional canon. Freedom, imagination and experimentation are the basic mainstays where these sound investigators' music is based on." (David Picó - AVUI).

"Their live music pokes again into the most hidden hollows of that combination of industrial pop and milesdavisian jazz of the late years." (Miquel Jurado - EL PAIS).

"Improvisation and spontaneity become some of the identity signals of Raeo, whose sonorous universe has no limits at all and stands out for its liberty to absorb any kind of influence when trying to reinterpret and define acid-jazz." (L. Castellanos - LA CRÓNICA DE LEÓN).

"The music has the same kind of frightening beauty and fragility as a medical picture. Despite its melody, its seductive rhythms and its flashes of humorous appropriation, there's a deep sense of unease about Body Loops, not unlike that of Journey Through a Body, the scariest of Throbbing Gristle's albums.../... Cunningham's trumpet creates washes of searing emotion over the seductive rhythmic tableaux. With repeated listens, the duo's painterly sense of composition becomes more apparent in its interplay of melody and noise, and its transitions from the dislocation of Motion And Rest to the mutant rhythms of Atlas And Axis and the noirish jazz of Kinesthesia." (Don Watson - WIRE)

 
 
 
   
 
 

Adiós Júpiter (excerpt)

Kinesthesia (excerpt)

 
 
 
 
   
     
 
 

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