Aquí entre los huesos for flute and string quartet (2018).

Alejandro Cardona (Costa Rica, 1959).

This album contains the world premiere of a flute and string quartet work by Alejandro Cardona called “Aquí entre los huesos” a major Latin American composer who has extensively collaborated with Alejandro Escuer in many projects, including a flute concerto premiered by the flutist and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto in 2024.

This quintet is written for bass flute in combination with regular flute and string quartet and is the only recording of Alejandro Escuer with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

From the original quintet for flute and string quartet comes EXILIOS for flute and string orchestra. The adaptation seemed natural and it was a request by flutist Alejandro Escuer, who premiered it with the Tenerife Chamber Orchestra in 2021.

Human Mechanics (Alejandro Escuer)

This album is a Mexico/US collaboration of musicians.

Human Mechanics (2018) by Alejandro Escuer is a piece for mixed ensemble and electronics and in this recording the ensemble is integrated by musicians of both nationalities. The electronics are done basically with sounds of the human body. The collaboration was possible thanks to Golden Hornet Foundation.

for Flute and String Quartet

Gabriela Ortiz

Dedicated to Alejandro Escuer

Cuarteto de cuerdas José White

Alejandro Escuer, flute

In collaboration with Mexican/British guitar player Morgan Szymanski, Alejandro Escuer premieres a piece for flute and guitar by Mexican composer Marcela Rodríguez.

In this album you will discover the premiere of a concerto for flute and strings called Zachic V premiered by Alejandro Escuer and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia conducted by Eddie Mora in 2012.

Manuel Rocha Iturbide (b. Mexico 1963) is a composer and sound artist who dedicated his piece for flute and electronics to Alejandro Escuer called Semi no Koe. The work is based on the sound of cicades, a sound which caused a tremendous impact on the composer during an artistic residency in Japan in the Summer of 2002 and served as a point of departure for this hypnotic and powerful work. It is also included in the album AQUA.

The “ANIMALIK” program consists of a series of animated short films set to music by the MAL’AKH ensemble. It includes stop-motion films from the early 20th century to the latest in digital technology, featuring films by international artists and Mexican filmmakers who have created videos specifically for this project.

**Guest Musicians:**

– Alejandro Escuer (Flute)
– Denise Gutierrez (Voice)
– Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky (Voice and children’s choir)
– Hernan Hecht (Drum improvisation)

A production by Mal’Akh Music & Cero Records.

Felipe Pérez Santiago (b. Mexico 1973) has written and dedicated many pieces to flutist Alejandro Escuer, including a flute concerto and a number of chamber works. In Mantis there is a piece for flute and electronics called Red Antisocial inspired by the idea that due to social media, we are apparently more interconnected but in reality, humans live more isolated lives. The pieces is constructed on layers and layers of flute parts, all played and recorded by Alejandro Escuer.

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Alejandro Escuer collaborated with Mexican composer Graciela Agudelo (1945-2018) in several projects. One of them is contained in this CD and it is a solo flute piece called Celebración del vino. It is some sort of continuation or epilogue of her more ambitious and substantial work for solo flute (also in close collaboration with Alejandro) called Meditaciones sobre Abya Yala, which appear in another album (Jade Nocturno).

Lipstick for flute and electronics

Alejandro Escuer, flute

This celebratory album gathers some of the most successful pieces by “pop-avant-garde” Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. The Netherlands, 1951) and includes a piece called LIPSTICK for flute and electronics. This is not a common piece for the electronics are remarkably original: Imagine cutting and editing recording sound tapes by hand based on a rare interview of Billie Holiday, and then matching Billie´s spoken words (pronunciations and inflexions) with clever and fun flute melodies and intricate rhythms of tremendous virtuosity. The result is a postmodern highly original, substantial hybrid work.

Still Time (2005) for flute and electroacoustic music

Mathew Adkins (b. UK 1972) collaborated with Alejandro Escuer in this astonishing work for flute and electroacoustic music where the flute makes use of a wide range of registers, including harmonics, extended techniques and microtonality.

This album is the result of various artists such as Andrés Argil and Alejandro Saqui who gather their talents to create pieces based on improvisations. Alejandro Escuer provided them with already recorded improvisatory materials that were used in different context throughout the recording.