2011 Favorites by Ernesto Diaz-Infante

• Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Bridge)
• Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira - Dark Lady Of The Sonnets (TUM Records)
• Morton Feldman - Orchestra (mode)
• London Improvisers Orchestra - lio leo leon (psi records)
• Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness/Lord of Lords (Impulse)
• Adolf Wölfli / Baudouin de Jaer - Analysis of the Musical Cryptograms/The Heavenly Ladder (Sub Rosa)
• Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett - Neither (hat[now]ART)
• Wadada Leo Smith's Organic - Heart's Reflection (Cuneiform Records)
• Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories (Sub Rosa)

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Ernesto Diaz-Infante is a composer and multi-instrumentalist musician with over fifteen years of activity, marked by experimentation with instruments, use of field recordings and sound manipulations. He also runs the label Pax Recordings.
"Our Faceless Empire", collaborative CD with Manuel Mota, Gino Robair and Ernesto Rodrigues, was included by SA among the best releases of 2010 (read the review here).
His latest work, "Emilio", consists of 32 solo performances on the Bajo Sexto and was published two weeks ago by Kendra Steiner Editions (see here).

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Discography:

• Itz'at (1997, Pax Recordings, PR90245)
• Tepeu (1998, Pax Recordings, PR90247)
• Ucross Journal (1999, Pax Recordings, PR90249)
• Pith Balls And Inclined Planes (2000, pfMENTUM, CD005) (w/ Jeff Kaiser)
• Solus (2000, Pax Recordings, PR90250)
• Wires And Wooden Boxes (2001, Pax Recordings, PR90252) (w/ Chris Forsyth)
• Crashing The Russian Renaissance (2002, Pax Recordings, PR90253) (w/ Alex Rudis, André Custodio)
• 'march' (2002, Pax Recordings, PR90256) (w/ Chris Forsyth)
• Untitled (2002, AZA Foreign Lands, aza 003)
• Long Await Between Collapsed Lungs (2003, Pax Recordings, PR90257) (w/ Pablo St. Chaos, Bohol)
• Grand Mal (2003, Pax Recordings, bar 1234/pax) (Kyle Bruckmann, John Shiurba, Karen Stackpole)
• Ernesto Diaz-Infante (2003, Pax Recordings, PR90259)
• (As Is Stated... Before Known) (2003, Evolving Ear / Pax Recordings, EE07 / PR90263) (w/ Chris Forsyth)
• All The States Between (2004, Pax Recordings, PR90262) (w/ Matt Hannafin)
• Mirrors On The Crisis Of The Moment (2005, Stasisfield, SF-4003)
• Reverberations From Spring Past (2006, Pax Recordings, PR90281) (w/ Marcos Fernandes, Robert Montoya, Rent Romus)
• CRR Live (2007, Pax Recordings, PR90268) (w/ Alex Rudis, André Custodio)
• Our Faceless Empire (2010, Pax Recordings, PR90289) (w/ Manuel Mota, Gino Robair, Ernesto Rodrigues)
• Emilio (2011, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #206)
• Civilian Life (2012, Pax Recordings, PR90290)
• At The KSE 6th Anniversary Concert (2013, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #255) (w/ Lisa Cameron, Lee Dockery)
• A Hallowed Shell Of Ash And Rust (2013, Erototox Decodings, etd0021) (w/ Helena Espvall)
• Wistful Entrance, Wistful Exit (2014, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #279)
• Sol Et Terra (2015, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #299) (w/ Lisa Cameron) 
• Tunnels (2016, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #333)

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Ernesto Diaz-Infante appears on:

• Triangle - Triangle (Moving Lines Recordings, 001)
• Left Coast Improv Group - Left Coast Improv Group (Jimzeen Productions, CD1003)
• The Abstractions - Sonic Conspiracy (2002, Edgetone Records, EDT4012)
• Left Coast Improv Group - April-May 2002 (2002, Edgetone Records, EDT4014)
• rev.99 - Everything Changed After 7-11 (2002, Pax Recordings, PR90255)
• VV.AA. - Soun - An Anonymous And Random Compilation / Composition (2003, Gameboy Records, GB34)
• Moe! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! - Two Forms of Multitudes: Conducted Improvisations (2003, Pax Recordings, PR90261)
• The Abstractions - Ars Vivende (2003, Edgetone Records / Pax Recordings, EDT4019 / PR90260)
• Dave Tucker West Coast Group - Tenderloin (2004, Pax Recordings, PR90264)
• Muck - Roc (2004, Pax Recordings, PR90272)
• The Abstractions - Novo Navigatio (2004, Edgetone Records / Pax Recordings, EDT4027 / PR90275)
• United Satanic Apache Front - Fuck Your Freedom (2005, Adversary Recordings, ADV 006)
• Voices In The Wilderness - Dissenting Soundscapes And Songs Of G.W.'s America (2006, Pax Recordings, PR90276)

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Ernesto Diaz-Infante's tracks appear on:

• VV.AA. - NFCD (1997, X-UNITS, XUN002) track: Excerpt From Tryptich, Panel One (w/ David Dvorin)
• VV.AA. - Microcassettor Volume One (2001, Sounds From The Pocket, ps/1) track: Sawdust And Streets
• VV.AA. - Sounds For Collector Scum (2002, The Seagull Label, 018) track: The Long Road To Royalty
• VV.AA. - Noises For The Limb - A Tribute To The Bonzo Dog Band (2003, Wood Records, WD69) track: 11 Mustachioed Daughters
• VV.AA. - Praeface (2003, Praemedia, praecd001) track: Electostatic Blues (w/ Lance Grabmiller)
• VV.AA. - Eld Rich Palmer Off-Line (2004, Eld Rich Palmer, --) track: On The Corner (Market And Sixth)
• VV.AA. - Mandorla Autumn Tunes Net-Collection Vol. 2 (2007, Mandorla Netlabel, MNL 011) track: En El Otono De La Vida  
• VV.AA. - KSE 10th Anniversary Album (2016, Kendra Steiner Editions, KSE #331) track: The Lovers

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Ernesto Diaz-Infante @ the Luggage Store Gallery, SF, 2/9/12

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