Ensamble Acústico - Un Exceso De Luz

LP reissue of 1989 Perro Andaluz/Circe tape release.
Ensamble AcúsTco was conceived in the early 1980s by Billy Pereyra and Eduardo Roland in Blancarena, a resort on the coast of the Río de la Plata, east of Colonia, Uruguay. In 1989, aoer only a few performances, the duo released their first and only album: a cassele of eight songs Ttled ‘Un Exceso De Luz’ (‘An Excess of Light’), co- released by independent labels Perro Andaluz (Uruguay) and Circe (ArgenTna).
Despite being limited to just 500 copies the album was criTcally acclaimed and lauded as the first ‘new age’ project to come out of Uruguay. Yet lumping ‘Un Exceso De Luz’ into that most vast and heterogenous confluence of musical genres, akin to ‘world music’, dismisses the alchemical breakdown of minimalism with gestures of contemporary jazz, exemplified by the shioing harmonic figures of ‘En Los Campos de Colonia’ (‘In the Fields of Colonia’).