Maria Chavez CDR reviewed by Vital Weekly

Maria Chavez CDR reviewed by Vital Weekly

MARIA CHAVEZ - THOSE EYES OF HERS (CDR by Pitchphase)
Women and experimental music is still, unfortunally, something exotic. Add to this that Maria Chavez was born in Lima, Peru and exotica mounts up, even when she grew up in Austin and lives in Houston. After becoming a club DJ her mentor David Dove (director of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation) advised her to experiment with turntables and vinyl. She got all excited about this and now solely works through improvisation, melting vinyl and working with broken stylus. The twelve improvised pieces on this release show indeed a great love for the way out experimental possibilities of turntablism. Going from inaudible to noise and back, with some heavy spinning and hardly anything recognizable coming from the vinyl, Chavez is perhaps not unique (think Yoshihide, think Jason Talbot), but there are really not enough people doing this kind of thing, so if you want a really want something nice out of your turntable, play this CDR. (FdW)
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