Cubelogic Improv

As I mentioned in a previous post, ustr?ga‘s debut album has been completed! This includes all the production work and the artwork. (I even became relatively familiar with Illustrator (using NuLOOQ) although someone told me I should have used InDesign.)

Paolo and I are thinking to ways to distribute it, although it seems like a daunting and time-consuming task. Things to consider are manifacturing 1000 or so copies and ways we are going to sell those copies. However, a part of me doesn’t want to get involved in the sales aspects, as I can already feel it draining away a lot of mental energies. Maybe I just have to suck it up.

For now we are working with CDBaby, a friendly and easy-to-use service that takes care of digital distribution. They have a great website. You can’t buy the CD there, but we can mail out whatever requests we receive burning the CD ourselves. Send us an email (ustrega AT gmail DOT com), and in any case, listen to the samples at our page @ CDbaby.net, and/or here or here!

I l’a dé la mola a Rubbil!

Paolo and I usually improvise. We are currently editing a lot of material and surprisingly enough, there’s some good stuff in our improvisations. Well, “good” is a relative term. Improvisation is something that gives me so much. I always, always wanted to do it, and actually, it’s kinda weird the way it started with Paolo. I won’t bore my non-existent readers with that though. However, I will bore them with more uSTREGA noise.

So. Terrmuq is my first suite! It came out from a original thought (aka canovaccio) that Paolo laid out, but the performance is totally improvised. Edits are minimal as usual. Terrmuq I, II, III.

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edit: the links were broken. I fixed the links.

The other thing that’s been happening since June 05 is… uSTREGA! I finally started playing music again, with Paolo Guiducci, a new friend I found here in California. Guitar and turntable, plus some electronics and loops. We have some pieces, like this, and this, and this, and this, and this. More to come.