Tepeu by Ernesto Diaz-Infante

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Free Jazz | Contemporary

6 tracks | 63 minutes

Released Dec 1998
on Pax Recordings

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sample "album only" 22:06 Tepeu "album only" 22:06 Tepeu "album only" 22:06 Tepeu

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Tepeu is the follow-up to San Francisco composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante's 1997 solo piano release Itz'at. Reflexive, very tonal, romantic at times, gently drawing the listener in. "suitable for framing." Jim Santella, All About Jazz

Editorial review

Tepeu is the follow-up to Ernesto Diaz-Infante's 1997 release Itz'at: still solo piano improvisations, still a Mayan God name for a title (Tepeu is the Governor, the one who brings order to the universe). However, there are differences between the two. First, the improvisations on Tepeu are much longer, the title track reaching 22 minutes. Somehow, this format works against Diaz-Infante's light and simple playing and his reflexive moods. It feels like he's thinning the sauce out. Second difference: his playing is fuller (there are more notes). On Itz'at, the stripped-down minimal expression was leaving a sensation of pseudo-atonality, but on Tepeu the playing is very tonal, almost romantic at times. It draws the album closer to easy listening than avant-garde music. On the plus side, the more agile playing can convince anybody who doubted if Itz'at was a hoax (can he really play?) that Diaz-Infante does have some technique, although he will use it a lot more on his fourth solo piano CD Solus. ~ Fran?ois Couture, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Tepeu is a CD collection of six improvisations for solo pinao by San Francisco-based composer/improviser Ernesto Diaz-Infante. Tepeu, the Mayan god of creation, proportion and order, was the inspiration for the work. The improvisations flow into one another, gently drawing the listener in with an organically evolving narrative.Ernesto says, "I think of my creative process as bringing order out of chaos. All of the compositions on this recording were freely improvised, except for Tepeu, which was a structured improvisation." This is a BEAUTIFUL record. Highly recommended. Please listen to the soundclips here.

Born in Salinas, California, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, is of Mexican and Native American ancestry. He received his BA from the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara and his MFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts.