iiii Records is excited to release the first volume of a series of collaborations between musicians from Aotearoa New Zealand and Cuidad de Mexico.
Campechanos features the first time musical collaboration of Mexico City dwellers Gustavo Nandayapa and Misha Marks with Auckland, NZ based Jeff Henderson in live performance at Sesion Manglar in November 2023.
Within the comfortable confines of the Manglar lounge this trio journeyed through ecstatic clatter, screaming intensity, joyous peaks and quizzical melodicism, performing an extraordinary set affirming the enduring vitality of free improvisation and the excitement of spontaneous musical meetings.
Jeff Henderson is a musician, sound artist and producer who has been an integral part of the New Zealand creative music scene for over three decades. A prolific performer on saxophones and clarinet, he also plays in numerous bands and ensembles on a variety of regular and invented instruments.
He has collaborated and performed with a huge array of artists including with jazz legends Steve Lacy, Pheeroan Aklaff, Clifford Barbaro, Marilyn Crispell, Barre Philips, Sabu Toyozumi, Han Bennink and Mike Nock.
He has established and run venues, festivals, record labels and tours devoted to experimental and underground music and is currently Director of the Audio Foundation- an insitution dedicated to adventurous music and Sound art in New Zealand.
Misha Marks has been part of the Mexico City soundscape since emigrating from New Zealand in 2008. He explores the sonic possibilities of six wires attached to a box, extracting a surprising gamut of sounds through traditional guitaristic approaches as well as extended techniques that probe the physicality of the instrument and its sound-producing capabilities.
He is active in diverse scenes throughout Mexico City playing numerous projects, such as Generación Espontánea, Carlos Marks, Teoqualo, Lágrimas del Cíclope Llorón, Trio Corazonantes, Héroes del Destierro, Doquier, I'm this, I'm that, Lodazal and occasionally with brass bands from the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
Gustavo Nandayapa is a drummer and improviser based in Mexico City. His wide musical vocabulary enables him to play from heavy fusion to real Chiapanecan traditional roots. He has performed, toured and recorded with a huge variety of Mexican and international artists including John Zorn, Marimba Nandayapa, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Remi Álvarez, German Bringas, Don Malfon, Saúl Hernández and many others.
Jeff Henderson - alto saxophone, duck caller, vocals
Misha Marks - guitar, tuba
Gustavo Nandayapa - drums
Tracklisting:
1. Oreja
2. Ojo
3. Sesos
4. Lengua
