diciembre, by Ernesto Díaz-Infante

diciembre

by Ernesto Díaz-Infante

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	1.	manía 05:03
	2.	anxiety 07:15
	3.	agitación 07:19
	4.	circadian 07:01
	5.	irritability 05:21
	6.	energía 07:10

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Ernesto Díaz-Infante electric and acoustic guitars

I suffer from seasonal depression.
The holidays are often hard for me. Is it my family upbringing and memories? The change of seasons? In this case, my partner Marjorie took our two kids back to New York to visit family and I spent the time alone.
I began each night by picking out a word that described how I was feeling, like 'mania', 'anxiety', or 'agitation', and then I would meditate on that word and sketch out the piece on the electric guitar and/or acoustic guitar. Then I would plug into my TASCAM Digital Portastudio and hit record. Sometimes I would use a distortion pedal or sometimes I would play clean with a little reverb.
The outcome is this work 'diciembre' (December in Spanish), a journal of free improvisations recorded from 25 December (Christmas night) to 30 December 2022.

My background as an improviser began at the California Institute of the Arts. I studied with trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith. Later, I studied more about improvisation by listening to Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, and Charlemagne Palestine recordings (and many other recordings) of experimental music.
In 2000, I moved to San Francisco and became part of the improvised music community where I began playing and booking shows at the Luggage Store Gallery, SF Alternative Music Festival, and the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival. While I have done a lot of solo work, I've also recorded with Helena Espvall, Lisa Cameron, Michel Kristof, Gino Robair, Chris Forsyth, Rent Romus, Rotcod Zzaj, Dave Tucker, among many others - Ernesto Díaz-Infante

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released October 8, 2023

recorded and mastered 25 to 30 December 2022 by Ernesto Díaz-Infante at Next Door to the Jefferson Airplane Studios, San Francisco, California

cover drawing by Shoshana Sturm Diaz-Infante

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