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cHMa - Historia de Otoño

Gabriel Nieto aka cHMa, hails from Mexico, and has had prior releases on the Bumpfoot netlabel.

In Historia de Otoño, he provides the listener with a survey of the autumnal moods which both soothe the listener and remind the listener that everything is in transition--a changing of the guard from heat to chill, from light to darkness. Using the watercolors of minimalism and glitch, he paints with a firm brush-stroke creating soundscapes which soundtrack the passing of the seasons. Rather than being bound within one genre or set of ideas, cHMA explores a subtle variety of electronic moods and alternate universes.

A great divide has arisen between those for whom the music must eschew traditional beats and instrumentation, and those for whom the beat is at the techno heart of the beating beat of the matter.
Similarly, artificial distinctions such as "noise/drone", "dark/melodic" and "ambient/chill" create needless debates among specialized niches of listeners, as if two small countries choose to go to war over a slice of territory of little economic or political value to either.

After the fervent Spring of division and growth, and the warm Summer of complacency, the Autumn
brings the cutting away of what has passed. In this mood of change and things passing, one comes to appreciate the virtues in what one can hear, rather than to debate its genre or affiliations. In netlabel culture we learn that the traditional "flags" of the music industry no longer wave so briskly. In a time beyond national borders, we greet the coming of the Autumn, and we catalog its history amid drones and beats.

cHMA provides us with a soundtrack for things passing, for things coming into being, and for things yet to come. We invite you to join him as he catalogs a history of our future.

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Historia de Otoño 1 has been downloaded 913 times
Historia de Otoño 2 has been downloaded 747 times
Historia de Otoño 3 has been downloaded 700 times
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Cover Design:
NSI

Cover Images:
Alfredo Lietor


Release Code:
NSI000022

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