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Maria Angélica Valencia, Brandon Lopez, Matt Moran

Tarabita Espiral

Label: Relative Pitch Records

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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Friendships and musical ties that are born unpredictably and are woven through distance, allowed the fortuitous encounter of Tarabita Espiral. A trio made up of Colombian saxophonist and clarinetist Maria Valencia, Puerto Rican NY- based double bassist Brandon López and NY-based vibraphonist Matt Moran. These three vibrant artists eschew traditional roles to sculpt a musical landscape of restless motion and textural dissonance.

Valencia’s reeds seethe and spiral, channeling both fractured lyricism and guttural exorcism, while Moran’s vibes are less shimmer than pulse—percussive, fractured, bowed. Lopez anchors and disrupts in equal measure, his bass work a volatile mix of deep groove and extended technique. This is improvised music at its edge: exploratory, unrelenting, and defiant. This trio doesn’t just play—they interrogate, offering a recording that’s as confrontational as it is deeply attuned.

Details
Cat. number: RPR1229
Year: 2025
Notes:
Special thanks to: Kevin Reilly, Randy Thaler, Jon Lipscomb, iBeam, Peter Gannushkin, Daniel Piedrahita Gutiérrez Recorded live at iBeam Brooklyn, N.Y. May 27th 2024 ©2025 Relative Pitch Records LLC. [on back cover] © 2025 Relative Pitch Records LLC [on disc]