Juan Pablo Balcazar - Otro Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (2024) [Hi-Res]

Otro quatuor de la fin du temps/Una fe particular is an album on paper; a mixed media work where music, texts, and drawings intertwine. It is the result of the collaboration between the bassist and composer Juan Pablo Balcazar and the illustrator Pedro Strukelj, two artists who have been active in Barcelona's cultural ecosystem for over two decades.

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, the work of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, is the point of departure from which the music on this new project takes form. Making use of a broad sonic spectrum, the compositions are full of different textures that Balcazar has developed, true to his unique understanding of jazz. In his hands, it is a style that knows no boundaries and the music is redolent of the many influences and aesthetics that are part of the history of the art form.

Seduced by the quality of Balcazar's new project, Pedro Strukelj has elaborated a short literary narrative, illustrated with his drawings which depict a reality that the artist himself refers to as anti-dystopian. This brief chronicle, which serves as a sortof fictitious precedent of what could be, revindicates and reveals to us a part of the often invisible cultural present of the city of Barcelona.

Juan Pablo Balcazar – Bass
Marcel·li Bayer – Sax
Dani Comas – Guitar
Oriol Roca – Drums