Antenna showcases David Virelles’ mastery in fusing Afro-Cuban spirituality with avant-garde innovation. This reissue highlights its hypnotic rhythms and spectral harmonies.
**David Virelles** redefine jazz fusion with Afro-Cuban traditions in *Antenna*, a 2016 ECM release now reissued on vinyl. Featuring **Román Díaz** on batá drums and **Gonzalo Rubalcaba** on piano, the album blends percussive textures with spectral harmonies. Tracks like *Siku Ila Makori* juxtapose ritualistic chants with jagged piano clusters, while *Marejada* evokes tidal surges through layered ostinatos.
Details
Cat. number: ECM 3901, 5710440, B0025611-01
Year: 2016
Notes:
Recorded and mixed at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York, March through July, 1985
Korg Synthesizers courtesy Unicord
©℗ 1985 Watt Works, Inc./ECM Records GmbH
Publisher: Watt Works, Inc. (BMI)
Manufactured and marketed by ECM Records
Printed in W-Germany
