SPARK AND EARTH/VINYLE TRANSPARENT 180GR

Description

Denovali presents Spark and Earth, the ninth full-length album from the renowned New York composer and performer Mario Diaz de Leon. Long celebrated for his electroacoustic chamber music, Spark and Earth is Diaz de Leon's first solo album to showcase his performance as a metal guitarist, alongside an electronic ensemble with vivid textures of laconic synth hits, wood timbres and vocals, grounded synth bass, and propulsive kick drums. Since 2009, Diaz de Leon has released four recordings of his collaborations with chamber ensembles (International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, TAK), while from 2012 to 2016, he produced three solo electronic albums under the project name Oneirogen. With the two-song album Heart Thread (2022), he began releasing electronic works under his own name. His music has been celebrated over the past decade for its "hallucinatory intensity" (New York Times), "bristling exuberance" (Pitchfork), and "remarkable textures and vibrant atmosphere" (New Yorker Magazine). As a collaborator, he is the guitarist and vocalist in the extreme metal duo Luminous Vault (Profound Lore Records), and plays synth and drum machine in Bloodmist, an electroacoustic improvisation trio with Jeremiah Cymerman and Toby Driver. In 2023, he collaborates with Eartheater and members of Krallice in a performance of songs from his album Trinity. Since 2019, he has been teaching at the Stevens Institute of Technology as an adjunct professor of music and technology.