Coming across Argentinian sound artist Juan José Calarco's works is a penetrating & unique perceptive experience.
Based essentially on urban field recordings meticulously selected, processed & assembled, his soundscapes seem to tap the collective Subconscious, as well as depicting a fundamental Mystery imbuing all things...
With the consistence of a gas, his music, an amalgam of volatile emanations & vital fluids seeps through every pore...
After several pieces for compilations, releases for netlabels (TIBprod, Test Tube...), a 3"cdr for the now defunct The Locus of Assemblage imprint, a to be continued refined collab with Adrián Juárez, and other collabs with Ubeboet & Pablo Reche ("Biesi" on SIJIS), and H Stewart ("Swan of Skin"), he has put together a baffling full-length of metaphysical proportions for MS...

"Dársena Interna" is breathing backgrounds,
half-light whispers,
a draught in a remote tunnel,
damp walls & channels...

a nocturnal diary of omnipresent streams,
clinkings, dilutions, & scraped stones...

a thin layer of dust & memories strata,
trembling pools & blurred reflections...

"Dársena Interna"'s dripping docks
unlock an ineffable realm of new sensations,
and its faint echoes spread a trail of truth...

Those who become permeable will leave changed...

http://www.mysterysea.net/