V/A - Homenaje a Macromassa (Tetra Brik Records, 1999)

Macromassa was founded in Barcelona in 1976 by Victor Nubla and Juan Crek as an experimentation laboratory specially focused on the electronic modification of wind instruments and the voice. Since then, and until 1997 (year when it appeared their last album "Puerta Heliogábal") the team Nubla-Crek produced more than forty recordings and a hundred concerts. It is impossible to summarise all this material in just few words. Alongside these years, the music of Macromassa has walked on industrial sounds; has gave birth to such complex and crazy conceptual creations as "Los Hechos Pérez"; has closed vocal-literary phases to give way -in other recordings- to some other phases completely instrumental and of improvisation; has made the work of Macromassa to pass through the filter of the Municipal Band of Tolosa; has made the electric guitars appearing and disappearing; has transformed the rhythm machine into two drums... And all that with an inclassifiable "macromassic" touch. The same touch that has never left the listener indifferent when listening any of their eight albums. Victor Nubla (1956) started his artistic career in the mid 70's. Composer, video-artist and writer, he has also composed music for cinema, video, theatre and contemporary ballet. He has worked in many other bands and projects: Colectivo de Improvisación Libre, Naif, El Cuarteto Albano, Nubla & Zulian, Agrupación Instrumental Phonos, El Consuelo Húngaro, Delirio de Dioses, Secreto Metro, UMYU, Klamm, Clónicos, Zush-Tres, Bel Canto Orquestra, Leo Mariño & Victor Nubla and CKT3 among others. Juan Crek also started his activities as a professional musician in the mid 70's, with a stylistic base close to psychedelic rock. He has explored many areas in the new musical frontiers. Nowadays, he maintains an interesant solo career. Around the nucleus Nubla-Crek, Macromassa has always had the complicity of musicians such as Albert Gimenez, Antón Ingnorant, Zush, Markus A. Breuss, Pere Boada, Kasper T. Toepliz, Eric Blanchard, Patri Martinez or Pep Figueras. Some of them participate in the CD "Homenaje a Macromassa" (Tetra Brik Records, 2000), where people as Superelvis, Clónicos, Pascal Comelade, Tina Gil or Carter Piler are in charge of making versions of some themes of Macromassa.

B. Amanuense

01 Sociedades en Tetrabrik - La fácil lectura de los hechos
02 Clónicos - Comunicaciones con cara de asco
03 Lattosso - Sorpresa
04 Superelvis - Viejo León
05 Pascal Comelade - Amuleto
06 Pere Boada-Alicia Martínez-Oriol Perucho - El espigado aspecto de Martínez
07 El Sirera / Tientos y Navajas - Sólo Pez
08 Antonio Murga & Locos de Atar - Macromissa
09 Carter Piler - Sorpresa
10 Koniec - Primeras impresiones
11 Tina Gil - Yo no soy el ornitólogo

Homenaje a Macromassa