Finis Africae

A Last Discovery: The Essential Collection 1984-2011

Finis Africae - A Last Discovery: The Essential Collection 1984-2011

Finis Africæ. Words redolent of mystery and myth, of Europe looking out to new lands, new worlds, new times. And so it is with 'A Last Discovery', the work of Spaniard Juan Alberto Arteche Guel and his musical co-adventurers, recorded between 1984 and 2001.
After fifteen years of musical success in Spain with his band Nuestro Pequeño Mundo, Arteche was ready to experiment with new ideas, and with the purchase of a four-track reel-to-reel recorder he did so, exploring imaginary global music-worlds with a core of like-minded explorers. The group, dubbed ''Finis Africæ'' by JAA after reading Umberto Eco's ''The Name of the Rose'', where the term refers to forbidden books and hidden knowledge, released seven recordings over an eighteen-year period, the best of which are compiled here.

2LP Em: EM1113DLP