[CP 284 CD] Enrique X. Macias; Entre La Nocha y La Mañana +

May 2023; Spanish composer Enrique X Macias should be a familliar name due to his inclusion on the defining "Musica Electroacustica Española" series ([CP 260-261 CD]) via the fantastic piece "Portrait Du Matin," making this replica edition of his lone (vinyl-era) solo outing (issued in 1983 on Linterna Musica, replete wtih its acid-washed purple cover wonderfully reproduced here) something of a no-brainer. Arriving with his compositional sensibilities fully formed on the Kagel-esque ensemble chaos of "Nachtmusik II para cinco instrumentos y banda magnética", we're then treated to Jorge Peixinho's solo harpsichord performance of "Foglio" (reading like a slowed-and-throwed take on Ligeti's "Continuum") but the real star of the show is the extended "Lied Für María" (composed in Krakow w/ Marek Chołoniewski on the controls) in which hyper-compressed FM'ed synth bonk & scatter is arranged in increasingly complex arrays of high-attack stabs & time-based effects, yielding something al