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For M.F.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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Pax Recordings is excited to announce its 20th Year Anniversary release with Ernesto Diaz-Infante's solo, acoustic guitar, composition, "For M.F." - an hour long, spatial sound work that honors the ruminative and creative life.

The music was recorded in October, 2013. It is being released in sync with E D-I's fiftieth birthday and in celebration
Pax Recordings is excited to announce its 20th Year Anniversary release with Ernesto Diaz-Infante's solo, acoustic guitar, composition, "For M.F." - an hour long, spatial sound work that honors the ruminative and creative life.

The music was recorded in October, 2013. It is being released in sync with E D-I's fiftieth birthday and in celebration of his forty some odd years of multi-instrumental sound and music making. E D-I has recorded over twenty five albums of music, half of those solo and the others in all sorts of eclectic collaborations including releases with musicians Helena Espvall, Chris Forsyth, and Gino Robair.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante is Native Californian and received his MFA from CalArts. He resides in San Francisco with his two children, and partner Filmmaker Marjorie Sturm. E D-I scored the soundtrack for her award-winning documentary, "The Cult of JT LeRoy" that was released in 2015.
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Civilian Life

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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    Welcome to San Francisco 0:36
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    Sun hypnotic! 3:28
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    easy to disappear into this fog 8:25
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    Yerba Buena 12:23
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    a gentle reminder 0:21
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    the morning sun pours through the window 1:58
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    Palais Idéal 4:09
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    Memories, like clouds . . . 2:06
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    JT 1:45
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    La Casa Encendida 7:50
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    shellacking the sidewalk 2:02
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    The Pedestrian Tunnel at the Conservatory of Flowers 3:28
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    small halo 0:27
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Discipline and Denial

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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    Circles 3:09
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    Tightrope 5:11
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    Forgotten Opportunities 4:15
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    Falling in Love While We Talk All Night 3:07
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    Midnight Frequencies 3:32
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    Myth, Madness, and Illusion 4:26
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    A Needle Cracks Open 3:14
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    El Pájaro Salió Volando 3:29
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    Descanso 3:31
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    Four Roses Still Standing 3:03
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    Compulsion 1:28
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s/t

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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    from Henry who just wrote 2:56
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    fate succeeds because it's obvious 3:01
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    cranking up its pathos 3:08
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    1:03 1:03
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    1:05 1:05
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    3:13 3:10
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    a ride to Cuba with Martin Sheen 3:04
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    1:05 1:05
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    durability of the throwaway art gesture 3:03
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    3:06 3:06
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    of acceleration and enunciation 3:10
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    smoking cigarettes 2:59
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    (followed by) harsh criticism 3:00
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    1:07 1:07
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Ucross Journal

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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A strong sense of location and the influence of a particular setting are vital to my work. Ucross Journal features pieces composed during my residency at The Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming. Pitch and harmonic structures were used as spring-boards for improvisation inspired by the wide-open, spacious, Wyoming landscape.
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    the big sky 1:02
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    yellow fields, yellow hills 1:18
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    the high plains landscapes 1:37
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    road through the Ucross Ranch 2:30
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    Piney Creek 1:29
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    Sunday afternoon showers/rhythmically detached/feldmanesque 1:38
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    Wyoming gray skies/anchor around F 1:48
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    East Alum 2:33
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    14-16 to Clearmont 3:24
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    immense and mesmerizing blue/play harmonically 1:57
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    ("...allow the love to take shape") dissonant structures 2:14
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    the passing of the clouds/rhythmically at times 1:46
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    Sheridan: 152: county 1:56
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    vast field/ray of universal movement 1:29
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    snow/feldmanesque 1:37
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    untitled #1 2:10
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    play through/retrograde/repeat/skip harmonies 2:16
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    don't play last harmony 'til end 2:21
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    untitled #2 1:53
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    roll harmonies 2:03
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    retrograde 1:30
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    break up notes/feldmanesque 1:52
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    untitled #3 1:28
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    untitled #4 1:31
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    untitled #5 2:35
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    Ucross Improvisation I 3:08
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    Ucross Improvisation II 3:03
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    Ucross Improvisation III 2:53
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    Ucross Improvisation IV 3:07
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    Ucross Improvisation V 3:55
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Vacilando EPs

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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"If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction." John Steinbeck
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    Banjo 3:14
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    On 4:28
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    My 3:50
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    Way 4:45
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    There you are 5:15
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    Outside the Window 4:52
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    Traveler guitar 3:39
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    Fell 4:40
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    From the Bridge 5:24
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    Got caught in the echo 4:28
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    and hid from 3:14
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    the wind 5:48
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    Electric Turkish oud 3:04
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    Strange 5:06
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    Morning 3:39
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    Light 4:43
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    Predicts 3:31
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    The mood 5:38
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    Resonator guitar 3:31
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    Again 3:25
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    We 4:25
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    Leave 5:06
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    Return 3:42
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    Blind Steps 5:27
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    Trio - quartet (banjo, traveler guitar, oud, resonator guitar 5:07
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    Diligent 5:16
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    Search 5:05
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    Certain not to exist 5:30
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