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Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Solus
by Mark Corroto
Wandering minds might want to know. Pondering souls can take comfort, as meditation on sound confers solace. As abstract as Ernesto Diaz-Infante’s Solus is, it never displays perplexity, invasion, or ire. The San Francisco based composer plays solo piano on thirteen individually numbered improvisations that eschew swing for an internal rhythm not apparent on first listen. ...
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Solus
by Glenn Astarita
Some might ask, what California based pianist-guitarist-composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante will do next? Whether utilizing the prepared acoustic guitar witnessed on the outlandish Left & Right featuring electric guitarist Chris Forsyth or open-ended/minimalist style solo acoustic piano performances on Ucross Journal, Infante at times parallels 20th Century composers such as John Cage and Morton Feldman. On Solus, ...
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Ucross Journal
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Ernesto Diaz-Infante composed these 25 short pieces while he was an artist in residence at the “Ucross Foundation Ranch” located in Wyoming. On Ucross Journal, Diaz-Infante creates briefly stated tone poems while utilizing space and depth to his advantage, as he indicates in the liners: “A strong sense of location and the influence of a ...
Ucross Journal
Label: Pax Recordings
Released: 1999
Track listing: Ucross Journal Weeks I-IV; Ucross Improvisations I-V.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Ucross Journal
by Jim Santella
It’s an interesting concept. Let the piano chords paint images for you and ignore most of the other elements that make music what it is. Tonal relationships offer impressions. Most of us agree on the various moods that can be portrayed. A happy-go-lucky stroll through daisy-covered fields? No problem. The impending violence that issues from a ...
Tepeu
Label: Pax Recordings
Released: 1998
Track listing: As Above, So Below; Thesis; Tepeu; Antithesis; Synthesis; What Has Been, Will Be Again.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Tepeu
by Jim Santella
Improvised solo piano musings from gifted artist Ernesto Diaz-Infante allow the listener to share in the creative process. His two albums itz'at and Tepeu both serve to demonstrate the improviser's creative process from start to finish. Diaz-Infante begins with vague thematic material and molds it, through his choices of harmony and melody, into an image “suitable ...
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