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O t a c í l i o M e l g a ç o
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C a d a v r e X q u i s E n s e m b l e

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Official Site
otaciliomelgaco.wix.com/cadavrexquisensemble (in Portuguese) & Facebook page www.facebook.com/cadavreexquissensemble

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The artist Otacílio Melgaço has two official curators in the virtual world. A curator (from Latin: ´curare´, meaning ´to take care´) is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or, as the present case: sound archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and, highlighting the context in force here, involved with the interpretation of personal (heritage) material. Both, Mr. Paz and Mr. Campbell, are, therefore, reviewers of the Melgacian works. To learn more about their missions, tasks, assignments and responsibilities by means of valuable informations regarding the compositional process, the performative rhizomes and other special features, just click the following link: otaciliomelgaco.wixsite.com/preamblebypsp
(O.M.Team; P r e l u d e)

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"A superb creation full of (and how are lovely the alliterations) spiral stairways, struts and stilts, stay rods, friction and tension fasteners etc. The always innovative proposal originating from such exquisite jazzy Melgacian Ensemble now gains new heights as forays into deep-rooted contemporary music (in this sense, aerating altitude and substantiated radix are not paradoxical), ligneous noise rock, rustles of authentic fusion as punctual funky whiffs." (Pablo S. Paz; Argentinean musicologist)

"Tree houses are usually built for leisure purposes, but sometimes they may be built for protection against wild animals. In some parts of the tropics, houses are either fastened to trees or elevated on stilts to keep the living quarters above the ground to protect occupants and stored food from scavenging animals. The Korowai, a Papuan tribe in the southeast of Irian Jaya, live in tree houses, some nearly 40 metres (130 ft) high, as protection against a tribe of neighbouring head-hunters, the Citak. Along with subterranean and ground level houses, tree houses are an option for building eco-friendly houses in remote forest areas, because they do not require a clearing of a certain area of forest. The wildlife, climate and illumination on ground level in areas of dense close-canopy forest is not desirable to some people.

Maybe we can try to decode the title of this ´overhead´ work of art. On the one hand, some directions that go beyond the - devourer and carrying wild freedom - jazzistic language (which is also masterfully developed here). On the other hand, an elevated signaling - consistent with mimetic stylistics cohabiting.

´You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul´, George Bernard Shaw uttered. Let us see (& - above all - hear) what this sonic house of natural mirrors reflects ...

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... well, coming from Mr. Melgaço, we must presume.
S o u l f u l.
This is the best definition.

A Music that each one of us has irresistible permission to dwell. A Music that makes us uncover our (human) nature while elevating the nature of sounds until levels even more breathable. A Music, taking into account the interrelations between instruments and among one and another sound Piece, that seems to seed a kind of ´aesthetic ecosystem´. I particularly admire the Confuciusian quote: ´If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of one hundred years, teach the people.´ The art of Otacílio Melgaço is a tireless sower, a dedicated tree planter and impeccable teacher. Concomitantly. In fact, exceeding one hundred years, a genuine and ravishing chef d'oeuvre (and I apologize if I'm being lyrical) craves what we usually call ´Infinite´. While there´s Humanity plus its legacy ... will be eternal the creations of Bach, Michelangelo, Shakespeare. And so the metaphor reaches the paroxysm: from the treetops, we glimpse the Infinite even more clearly. More than that: audiblely." (Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician)

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I - A tree house or tree fort is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space, habitation, observation or as temporary retreats;

II - Interesting to note some subtle references that occasionally are present in "Tree House" such as Antonio Vivaldi, John Coltrane, Iggy & The Stooges;

III - Below, other records released by CadavreXquis:

melgacootacilio.bandcamp.com/album/o-c-rculo-imperfeito-otac-lio-melga-o-cadavrexquis-ensemble-otac-lio-melga-o-duration-41-39

melgacootacilio.bandcamp.com/album/x-otac-lio-melga-o-cadavrexquis-ensemble-otac-lio-melga-o-duration-01-00-42

...for purposes of pragmatism and clear exegesis,
Wikipedia was the main source...

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Between two parentheses...
(Atonalism, Twelve-Tone, Serialism, Musique Concrète... Acousmatic. Eletroacoustic. Magnetic Tape. Expressionism, New Objectivity, Hyperrealism, Abstractionism, Neoclassicism, Neobarbarism, Futurism, Mythic Method. Electronic...Computer Music, Spectral, Polystylism, Neoromanticism, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism...are addressed by Melgaço. Paradoxically New Simplicity and New Complexity also.
Art Rock, Free Jazz, Ethnic Dialects, Street Sounds are occasional syntax elements.
All the possibilities mentioned above and others that were not mentioned are the usual accoutrements of the composer/instrumentalist to establish his ´babelic´ glossary. We can prove this in a short passage of a single composition up along the entirety of a conceptual phonograph album. All distributed over a career and idiosyncratic records. Have we a universe before us and I propose to see it through a telescope, not a microscope.
I propose not handle very specialized topics here. Otherwise would be, with the exception of musicians and scholars, all hostages of a hermetic jargon. Because more important is to present Otacílio Melgaço to the general public and not to a segment of specialists. Faction of experts not need presentations, depart for the enjoyment beforehand. For this reason there is no niche here for intellectual onanism and encrypted musical terminology. The reason for these parentheses is to establish such elucidation. The non-adoption of technicalities leads to more panoramic, amplifier reviews. Are You always welcome. Those who do not dominate contemporary music and are introduced to the world of ubiquitous O.M. [autodidact and independent artist who, being more specific, does not belong to schools or doctrines; artist who makes Music and that´s enough; music devoid of labels or stylistic, chronological, historical paradigms or trends] and Those who belong to the métier and turn to enjoy propositions they know and also delving into advanced Melgacian sound cosmogonies...
I conclude poetically. ´Certeza/Certainty´ by Octavio Paz. ´Si es real la luz blanca De esta lámpara, real La mano que escribe, ¿son reales
Los ojos que miran lo escrito? De una palabra a la otra Lo que digo se desvanece. Yo sé que estoy vivo Entre dos paréntesis.´ If it is real the white light from this lamp, real the writing hand, are they real, the eyes looking at what I write? From one word to the other what I say vanishes. I know that I am alive between two parentheses.
We´re all more and more a-l-i-v-e now.)
- P.S.P.