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  12” LP of Electronic saxophone and field recording from Matanzas, Cuba.
  
  “Mr. Leonard creates a haunting, rhythmic, chantlike score, secular spiritual music for a New World. After leaving the gallery I kept hearing it, with delight, in my head, on the street, all afternoon.” Holland Cotter (The New York Times)
  
  Matanzas is an album of meditative and evocative pieces for alto saxophone, audio processing, and field recordings. The music was premiered at Bar Matanzas, a pavilion by Leonard and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons for documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. Original field recordings are from Ciénega Zapata, a 4,162 square kilometer biosphere in Matanzas, Cuba. The music was composed and performed in Robert Rauschenberg’s multipurpose 40’x80’ studio in Captiva, Florida.
  
  Leonard writes, “The music on this LP is a reflection on living in and listening to the sounds of Matanzas, Cuba while preparing works for documenta. My recordings of folkloric musicians, interviews with mystics, bartenders and biologists, as well as the urban soundscape were in my ear while composing this piece.”
  
  The music draws on Leonard’s association with top-shelf artists including Joanne Brackeen, Terence Blanchard, Richard Devine, Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Phill Niblock, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Stephen Vitiello and Amnon Wolman. Leonard's experimental work is known widely through concerts at documenta, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Whitney Museum of American Art and Venice Biennale.
  
  Co-produced and mixed by Neil Leonard and long-time collaborator, Joseph Branciforte. The LP was cut by Scott Hull
  
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