ìan implacable and electrifying celebration...  with a naturality so enviable that seemed the  complete concert that the electronics of this  country was waiting to live and listen... for the  first time, it seemed that it was not necessary to  look outside of the origen of some gold mine that  is later adulated and exalted here.î Vicens Batalla (Avui - rock & classic, feb. 2001)

VICTOR NUBLA: samplers, mco systems, clarinets, electric arpa PASCAL COMELADE: piano ROBIN STOREY (RAPOON): sampler, small instruments ANTON IGNORANT: tapes, effects IO CASINO: electric bass, voice EVRU  BEFORE ZUSH: sinthesizer KASPER T. TOEPLITZ: electric bass, computer FRANCISCO LÓPEZ: lopez systems ORIOL VILELLA: electric Harp BABEL AGATHA:          GUILLERMO M. CAMARASA: turntables, effects           EMILIO SÁNCHEZ: percussion, radio, effects           VICENTE MARTÍNEZ: sampler, sinthesizer   Ferran Fages: scene supervisor Ana Martínez: 2nd scene supervisor

The get-together of some of the most influential musicians of the international panorama around the music of Victor Nubla, has as a result two hours of sonorous magic, in which oniric atmospheres are altered, minimalist songs, hipnotic trances, imaginary folklores, science-fiction, instrumental heterodoxy and electronic visions of a present future. Practically all of the current sonorous resourses brought to service of an ambicious suite dividided in 12 parts and interpreted by 12 instrumental groups without solution of continuity, in a spectacule in constant change where the surprise plays an important role, and in which the turntables of the d.j. and the grand piano live together without problems next to the voice and the samplers, the instruments of other cultures and the electric basses touched by bows. A serious and intelligent experiment which didnít lack sense of humor, a reflection on science and its relation with art that is the result of seven years of work. Difficulty one can find a get-together of musicians of such magnitud and coming from areas of current music so apparently distant and at the same time so necessary to understand what we know as music of our times. The popular genres and the cult tendencies of the beginnings of this new century live together in Antichton, opera-concept of noise and magic, humanity and confusion, new secrets and old knowledge. Artists of three generations work in Antichton to celebrate this contemporary ritual.                                                                     photos: Francesc Sans / L'Espai, Barcelona, 7th - 8th February 2001.