Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo..., by Positive Catastrophe

Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...

by Positive Catastrophe

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1.	Café Negro Sin Azcar 03:27	buy track
2.	Garrison Ascending 12:23
3.	Lessons Learned from Seafaring Tales: It's Eternally 04:41
4.	Lessons Learned from Seafaring Tales: Perhaps the Artist Was a Little Mad 08:31
5.	Lessons Learned from Seafaring Tales: Wolves and Blizzards 09:33
6.	Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...: Dibrujo One 05:31
7.	Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...: Deebroojo Two 01:26
8.	Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...: Debruhoe Three 03:24
9.	Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo...: Dibroojoh Four 05:48

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"Time was when the wide range of sources heard in the music of Positive Catastrophe had to fight for a place in jazz. Ethnic music (some of it in odd meters), rock and funk, literary art songs, and other influences from outside the jazz tradition have all elbowed their way into the music over the past few decades. It is the musical vocabulary that the young members of this 10-piece band co-led by brass player Taylor Ho Bynum and percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado grew up speaking. Do the noisy rock sonorities of Pete Fitzpatrick’s electric guitar on “Deebroojo Two” belong in jazz? Of course! Settings of passages from novels by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad? What’s the big deal? Composers Bynum and Gomez-Delgado so easily mold their eclectic range of resources in a single voice and the band interprets the charts with such exuberance and grace that you hardly notice the music is actually quite rigorous and challenging.... There’s a lot happening, but Positive Catastrophe makes it sound as natural as Basie playing 'April in Paris.'" – Point of Departure

"Combining the raw passion of Afro-Cuban rhythm with the intellectual intensity of free jazz, Positive Catastrophe transcends idiom.... With its exciting mélange of ingredi- ents, this genre-defying album contains sufficient amounts of improvisational rigor and enchanting harmonies to satisfy both adventurous and more-conventional listeners." – Jazziz

"This group combined the Latin and avant-garde traditions in unheard ways, sinking its teeth into everything from Arkestra pandemonium to deep Afro-Cuban grooves to long-form composition. This music was full of roof-raising pleasures but also artful decision-making." – JazzTimes

The 10 piece strong 'little big band' Positive Catastrophe was founded in 2007 by cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and percussionist/vocalist/composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado. Uniquely fusing Latin and avant-garde jazz, the group enlists many of New York’s most adventurous jazz and salsa musicians.

Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo... is Positive Catastrophe's second album. Here, the group combines salsa-derived groove with the intensity of modern jazz for a mix that is both artistic (dibujo = drawing) and magical (brujo = sorcerer). It features new music by both Bynum and Gomez-Delgado, including an extended suite by each.

Throughout the recording, all of the performers in the ensemble receive ample room to feature their musical voices and there are exciting scored passages that roll into rollicking solos; this is new music that knows how to swing and shake!

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released May 8, 2012

Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet)
Abraham Gomez-Delgado (percussion, vocals)
Kamala Sankaram (accordion, vocals)
Mark Taylor (french horn)
Reut Regev (trombone)
Matt Bauder (tenor saxophone)
Michael Attias (baritone saxophone)
Pete Fitzpatrick (electric guitar)
Alvaro Benavides (electric bass)
Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

Recorded November 22, 2011 at Systems Two, Brooklyn NY.
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Jon Rosenberg.
Produced by Abraham Gomez-Delgado and Taylor Ho Bynum.
Art by Abraham Gomez-Delgado.

Dibrujo is a combination of two words: “dibujo” (drawing) + “brujo” (sorcerer).

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