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Reseñas, entrevistas y otras publicaciones

Reseña de Planos de Estratificación por Priscila Mayen, para Musexplat
“Escuchar profundamente y adentrarse en cada track es como adentrarse a un mundo material distinto que nos invita a conocer un contexto que, de no ser por la experimentación del ejecutante no podríamos percatar, como diría Gérard Grisey, todo ocurre como si el efecto zoom que nos acerca a la estructura interna de los sonidos sólo pudiera funcionar en razón de un efecto inverso que concierne al tiempo. “

Reseña de Planos de Estratificación por Fringes of Sound
“Upon first listen, I admired the synthetic textures and the haunting ambiance that Díaz managed to created on this album, especially in regard to the level of depth these tones had and the intricate layering of them. Then I went back for another listen and discovered that these textures are not synthetic at all.”

Review de EL TEMPLO por Eyal Hareuveni para Salt Peanuts
Parker’s soul brother Matthew Shipp, who wrote the liner notes, mentions that Parker thinks that this trio has a right vibe, a great compliment in the lexicon of Parker. And indeed, this trio serves the music, and as Shipp writes, there is a «balance, an equilibrium to this trio that comes from honesty of intent and from all three members being truly in the moment …  the trio have an intrinsic sense of trio as a whole and that allows them to find their own space». This is a trio that works as a powerful organism and clearly empties its individuals from ego-based clashes.

Entrevista para Rosario 12 (suplemento de Página 12 en Rosario) por Leandro Arteaga. / Paula Shocron y Pablo Díaz
“Acercarse a Algo en un espacio vacío es ingresar en un lugar maleable, donde todo está a punto de ser. El ánimo viaja entre sonidos e imágenes que intentan figurarlos, mientras se escapan como arena entre dedos.”

Reseña del audio-libro Algo en un Espacio Vacío, en la revista digital Musexplat. Por Ana Mora.
“Algo en un Espacio Vacío se traduce en el aquí y en el ahora. Las interrogantes y reflexiones con las que abre este texto, se transforman en sonidos de una manera única cada vez que escuchamos esta producción y que se potencializa con el aspecto visual.”  

Entrevista por Oscar Abad para Malaria Sonora de Mexico / Edición de Algo en un Espacio Vacío

“La pianista Paula Shocron y el baterista Pablo Díaz, artistas clave en el circuito de improvisación libre en Buenos Aires, nos invitan a atravesar esa puerta y ponen frente a nuestros sentidos un provocador trabajo en el que, a través del indómito torrente de la improvisación libre, conviven el sonido, lo corpóreo, lo escénico y lo visual.”

Reseña de Algo en un Espacio Vacío en The Free Jazz Blog, por Paul Acquaro
“In the liner notes, bassist William Parker writes “the sounds are like an ocean in a painting … internal rhythms and burst open to field of blue or green.” Accept the hacked quote and poetic grammar and let the sound of the language convey the motion that is captured in many forms on Algo en un Espacio Vacio.” 

“Paula Shocron y Pablo Díaz publicaron el disco-libro Algo en un espacio vacío.El álbum es el registro de un momento en el amplio trabajo que la pianista y el baterista vienen desarrollando con la música improvisada en los últimos años.”
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“Imperdible entrevista con el destacado músico argentino Pablo Díaz. Una charla profunda, reveladora y de lectura imprescindible”

Por Sergio Piccirilli para la revista digital El Intruso

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Pablo Díaz: música para “un espacio vacío” / Entrevista por Fernando Ríos para Argentjazz

Reseña de El Contorno del Espacio, del SLD Trío, en Jazzword. Por Ken Waxman. 
“Little known in the wider world of exploratory music unless the musicians relocate to Europe or North America, a vibrant, but pocket-sized community of improvisers exists in South America. Following divergent musical currents with dissimilar personnel are combos from the continent’s largest cities showcased here. Buenos Aires’ SLD Trio, consisting of pianist Paula Shocron, bassist German Lamonega and drummer Pablo Diaz provides its version of the FreeJazz piano trio.”

Reseña de El Contorno del Espacio, del SLD Trío, en The Free Jazz Blog. Por Paul Acquaro.
“El Contorno Del Espacio is a wonderful recording that reveals more on every listen. The musical ideas pass by with vivaciousness and speed, the drumming is sympathetic and explorative, and the bass fits neatly between, connecting with Diaz’s ideas and helping to shape Shocron’s classically informed lines.” 

ENTREVISTA en The Free Jazz Blog

“The Free Jazz Blog has given the musical adventures of drummer Pablo Diaz and pianist Paula Shocron some attention over the past few years, first with a review of the SLD Trio’s first album Anfitrion, then on their follow up, Tensegridad, and again on a few recordings on their NendoDango label.”
Por Alexander Dubovoy
“It’s our luck that Shocron and Diaz connected with Gregorio. Their collaboration sounds effortless as it spans generations and distances. There is much to keep you hooked and wanting more.” 
“NendoDango Records is playing an instrumental role in documenting the careers of exciting artists out of Buenos Aires. This music demonstrates vibrancy and creativity at the highest level.”
por Alexander Dubovoy para The Free Jazz Blog
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ENTREVISTA por Jakob Baekgaard para All About Jazz 
"Many jazz percussionists have dedicated their life to the rhythms of the body and the world. One of them is the Argentinian drummer Pablo Diaz, who has been on a journey into rhythms for a long time."

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“In the liner notes, bassist William Parker writes “the sounds are like an ocean in a painting … internal rhythms and burst open to field of blue or green.” Accept the hacked quote and poetic grammar and let the sound of the language convey the motion that is captured in many forms on Algo en un Espacio Vacio.” 
by Paul Acquaro for The Free Jazz Blog
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/02/paula-shocron-and-pablo-diaz-algo-en-un.html

“Atravessado esse percurso ao qual os dois artistas nos convidam, fica a sensação de que fomos inundados por um campo de frescas ideias expressivas, que mostram o quanto a improvisação nas mãos certas pode ser uma via de criação realmente genuína e de potência poética sem limites.”
por Fabricio Vieira para Free Form Free Jazz
http://www.freeformfreejazz.org/2021/01/o-novo-projeto-de-shocron-e-diaz.html

“Tracks for this EP-length offering were recorded at a park in Buenos Aires during February of 2020, right before the pandemic lockdown began. Percussionist Pablo Díaz made use of a floor tom and various other objects.” “He also wrote accompanying poetry that appears in the liner notes.”
por Mike Borella para Avant Music News
https://avantmusicnews.com/2021/02/09/amn-reviews-pablo-diaz-breves-poemas-sonoros-2021-nendodango-records/

“Unboundedness allows you to enter for half an hour in a sparkling and eccentric para-musical theater, where the absence of stringent rules never becomes the justification for losing control over the whole picture. The young Crozzoli, Díaz and Shocron could already confront the U.S. giants, but they also prove once more that South America is already a very fertile ground for those who really want to play outside the box.”
por Michele Palozzo para Esoteros
https://esoteros.net/2020/04/04/weekly-recs-2020-14/

“Last September, pianist Paula Shocron, bassist William Parker, and drummer Pablo Diaz performed a set at Brooklyn’s IBeam. Parker also contributed pocket trumpet and pocket tuba. Live at IBeam memorializes the show, and consists of one 50-minute track, aptly titled Free Improvisation.”
por Mike Borella para Avant Music News
https://avantmusicnews.com/2020/03/01/amn-reviews-paula-shocron-william-parker-pablo-diaz-live-at-ibeam-2020-nendo-dango-records/

“The CD features younger musicians, pianist Paula Shocron and percussionist Pablo Díaz is a first-time collaboration with clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio, who is a long-time US resident, but was a participant in Movimiento Música Más, which presented multi-media sonic experiments in Argentina during the 1960s and 1970s.”
por Ken Waxman para Jazzword
 

“El Contorno Del Espacio is a wonderful recording that reveals more on every listen. The musical ideas pass by with vivaciousness and speed, the drumming is sympathetic and explorative, and the bass fits neatly between, connecting with Diaz’s ideas and helping to shape Shocron’s classically informed lines.” 
por Paul Acquaro para The Free Jazz Blog
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2019/09/paula-shocron-pablo-diaz-guillermo.html

“It is an album that encourages delving in and being washed over by the intricacies of sound. It raises, and, at times literally asks, profound questions without forgetting the sheer joy of making music and embracing beauty.”
por Alexander Dubovoy para The Free Jazz Blog
 

“Together they inscribe a series of miniatures where atmosphere and timbral coloration are predominant…”
por John Sharpe para All About Jazz
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dialogos-paula-shocron-fundacja-sluchaj-review-by-john-sharpe.php

“Uma curiosidade sobre a univerdalização da free music: temos um trio de argentinos, gravando em New York, sendo lançados por um selo polonês e resenhados no Brasil”

por Fabricio Vieira para FreeForm, FreeJazz
http://www.freeformfreejazz.org/2019/08/play-it-again.html?fbclid=IwAR0Z3-K3wd9ANCWBwjTVkoLY7-fpqsC8sj-CU6EXAF5Ut8c8XpkcF5TnM-8

“Geograficciones is full of dramatic risings, furious blow outs, passionate and sparkling solos and special effects. Five great jazz masters create astonishing and moving sound, which has hot and blowing playing manner, active mood and roaring bursts of energy.”
por Avant Scena
https://avantscena.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/conde-quinteros-shocron-diaz-drury-geograficciones-different-track-recordings-2018/

“Geograficciones reúne alguns dos mais interessantes artistas da cena atual de Buenos Aires. Estão aqui agrupados Paula Shocron (piano), Luís Conde (sax alto e clarinete), Cecilia Quinteros (violoncelo) e Pablo Díaz (percussão); para complementar o quinteto, a eles se juntou o baterista norte-americano Andrew Drury.”
por Fabricio Vieira para Free Form Free Jazz
 

“The music of this album is full of inventive musical decisions, passionate and expressive improvising and has a remarkable and original sound.”
por Avant Scena
https://avantscena.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/christoph-gallio-paula-shocron-pablo-diaz-statements-nendodango-records-2018/

“Il tutto, come detto, nel segno di un procedere terribilmente concreto, vivo, stimolante. Non ci resta che aspettare la prossima scoperta, in materia. Sperando che non si faccia attendere troppo a lungo.” 
por Alberto Bazzurro para All About Jazz 
 
“Shocron, Parker, and Diaz pull from all stretches of their instruments, the most melodic and beautiful to the most inaccessible and harsh. They each play and move between different roles, sometimes leading the collective along, sometimes providing support for others to take the helm.”
por Paige Johnson-Brown para The Free Jazz Collective Blog
 
“Tensegridad constitutes the sophomore offering from the SLD Trio and features an intriguing program containing originals from each band member, three jointly credited pieces and two off the beaten track covers.”
por John Sharpe para All About Jazz
 

“El SLD Trío, en Tensegridad, profundiza los postulados de libre improvisación y jazz de vanguardia que nutren su propuesta germinal y manifiesta -de manera incontrastable– la consolidación de un sonido colectivo de cuño propio.”
por Sergio Piccirilli para El Intruso
http://elintruso.com/2017/12/29/sld-trio-tensegridad/

“Argentinians Shocron (piano) and Diaz (drums and percussion) team up with one of the elder statesmen of creative improvisation, New Yorker William Parker (bass, of course).”
por AMN Magazine
 
“Saving linguistically-challenged listeners potential vexation with some savvy shorthand, the SLD Trio hails for Buenos Aires and comprises pianist Paula Shocron, bassist German Lamonega and drummer Pablo Diaz. Tensegridad is actually their second album.”
por Derek Taylor para Dusted Magazine
 
“The SLD Trio is a group of young Argentian musicians, who along with a small, dedicated, and increasingly beset group of artists, are working to find a space for free improvisation in Buenos Aries. If you can, track down Jason Weiss’ excellent profile of the group and the Argentinian improvisational music scene in Wire 399. Here, you will meet two thirds of the trio along with other prominent players, whom are all interconnected … a term which brings me conveniently to the album’s title Tensegridad.”
por Paul Acquaro para The Free Jazz Collective Blog
 

“While some types of avant-garde music seek to re-invent the language of music to the point of total estrangement, the strength of the SLD Trio lies in its ability to make sounds, rhythms and melodies that are experimental and inventive and yet almost feel like old folksongs. A new inscription written on an old stone.”
por Jakob Baekgaard para All About Jazz
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tensegridad-sld-trio-hat-hut-records-review-by-jakob-baekgaard.php

Review of Cooperative Sound #2
por Marc Edwards para Jazz Right Now
https://jazzrightnow.com/2017/08/08/cooperative-sound-2-nendo-dango-records/

Review of Cooperative Sound #1
por Marc Edwards para Jazz Right Now
 
“Outside the festival circuit and distanced by economic upheaval the free music of Buenos Aires has developed its own survival tactics, from performances in people’s homes to public happenings.”
por Jason Weiss para The Wire
 

“Os argentinos Paula Shocron (piano) e Pablo Díaz (bateria) passaram uma temporada em Nova York no ano passado e se reuniram a alguns dos grandes nomes do free local para sessões de inventiva improvisação coletiva.”
por Fabricio Vieira para FreeForm FreeJazz Blog
http://www.freeformfreejazz.com/2017/04/play-it-again.html

“Pieces that feel like thick modern oil paintings in the local modern art museum.”
por George W. Harris para Jazz Weekly
 
“Siempre la aparición de un nuevo sello jazzístico es bienvenida y, con mayor razón, cuando se dedica de manera excluyente a difundir expresiones de los sectores más vanguardistas del jazz. Es el caso de NendoDango, un emprendimiento liderado por el baterista Pablo Díaz, la pianista Paula Shocron y el saxofonista Miguel Crozzoli, y del que ya se comentaron en este espacio los tres títulos de soporte “físico”. Aquí le toca a las obras digitales.”
por Jorge García para El Amante
 
“Un disco excelente, de los mejores editados este año en el terreno jazzístico.”
por Jorge García para El Amante
 

“The debut of the SLD Trio of pianist Paula Shocron, bassist Germán Lamonega and drummer Pablo Díaz makes its home in dissonance, but the beating heart of Anfitrion reveals that what the trio truly delights in is motion.”
por Dave Sumner para Bird is the Worm
http://www.birdistheworm.com/recommended-sld-trio-anfitrion/

“Una búsqueda que privilegia las formas libres, la amplitud de expresión y que configuran ya desde el primer corte, con “Antitónica”, una formulación de principios que no se ven traicionados en los ocho temas restantes.”
por Fernando Ríos para ArgentJazz
 
“DESTEMPORIZADOR would not have been possible without the Blue Note bop records of the fifties and sixties, but Díaz has his own take on this tradition and a playful, free spirit.”
por Jakob Baekgaard para All About Jazz
 
“Their music draws from the ‘spiritual’ well, as their every note seems to form from somewhere deep and intangible, rising to the surface in expressive waves”
por Paul Acquaro para The Free Jazz Collective Blog
 

“Vendo os músicos envolvidos, difícil imaginar que não sairia coisa boa, sendo que aqui estão reunidos alguns dos mais empolgantes músicos da cena argentina contemporânea.”
por Fabricio Vieira para FreeForm FreeJazz Blog
http://www.freeformfreejazz.com/2016/10/jazz-al-sur-lancamentos-argentinos.html#more

“El baterista Pablo Díaz y el saxofonista Miguel Crozzoli plasmaron, en Tierra, un álbum a dúo infrecuente para la música creativa contemporánea argentina, asumiendo riesgos en una propuesta visceral, con un fuerte componente emocional y, además, concretado de manera exquisita y subyugante.”
por Marcelo Morales para El Intruso
 
“Distintos formatos para una misma pasión. Pablo Díaz es uno de los músicos más inquietos que tiene la actual escena del jazz en Buenos Aires.”
por Fernando Ríos para ArgentJazz
 

“Emotional communication is the keyword when it comes to this release, but it is not just the sound of two persons, but rather the beating heart of nature…”
por Jakob Baekgaard para All About Jazz
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tierra-miguel-crozzoli-pablo-diaz-nendodangorecords-review-by-jakob-baekgaard.php

“Vacillating between full-bodied and minimalist improvisations, the album’s diversity is its strong suit. The quiet moments are solid and reflective and when the tracks do pick up, there is a very open feeling, and it all points to the attention that the three musicians pay to each others rhythmic inventions and melodic approaches. Highly recommended!…”
por Paul Acquaro para The Free Jazz Collective Blog
 
“O trio de piano-baixo-bateria é um dos formatos clássicos e mais explorados no universo jazzístico. Dessa forma, sempre impressiona quando surgem propostas novas a partir de tal formação, como é o caso de Anfitrión, estreia do trio argentino SLD…”
por Fabricio Vieira para FreeForm FreeJazz Blog
 

“The SLD Trio features Paul Shocron on piano, German Lamonega on contras and Pablo Diaz on drums. This trio hails from Argentina and were recently in town playing some gigs with local favorites like Daniel Carter, Ras Moshe, Matt Lavelle & Steve Dalachinsky…”
por Bruce Lee Gallanter para Downtown Music Gallery
http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/lookup.cgi?item=2015_08_07_14_44_15

“El título del grupo, con las iniciales de los apellidos de cada uno de los integrantes, da la pauta de la manera en que este trío interacciona sus instrumentos, sin darle preponderancia a ninguno de ellos. Integrado por Paula Shocron en piano, Germán Lamonega en contrabajo y Pablo Díaz en batería, el grupo ofrece un programa de composiciones propias caracterizadas por una notable libertad expresiva…”
por Jorge García para El Amante
 
“A piano trio without a leader? The concept is not unknown, but the norm in jazz is that a trio has a leader. Even pianist Bill Evans’ trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, famous for dissolving the fixed hierarchy in a trio setting, was formally presented as the Bill Evans trio…”
por Jakob Baekgaard para All About Jazz
 
“Muchos conocerán a Pablo Díaz como integrante desde hace años del combo de Enrique Norris. Pero lo cierto es que este baterista, nacido en 1985, tiene ya dos discos propios al frente de su grupo, con los que ha dado muestras sobradas de talento y creatividad. Su último trabajo, “Mouna”, publicado por Kuai; permite ver además su crecimiento autoral. Siete temas propios para un disco que hace de la sutileza y el buen gusto su marca de origen…”
por Fernando Ríos para ArgentJazz
 
“Son muchos los jóvenes bateristas que se han destacado en los últimos tiempos y en esa lista corresponde incluir a Pablo Díaz. Instrumentista de una versatilidad que le permite cubrir un amplio espectro musical…”
por Jorge García para El Amante
 

“El primer disco como líder de Pablo Díaz reafirma todo lo bueno que el baterista venía haciendo en los grupos de Enrique Norris y Juan Pablo Arredondo. Un disco pleno de climas y matices, con grandes individualidades y un trabajo grupal que demuestra el mejor nivel del jazz joven en el país…” 
por Fernando Ríos para ArgentJazz
http://www.argentjazz.com.ar/pablo-diaz-y-su-logrado-debut-discografico/