Mauricio Moquillaza Mauricio Moquillaza

Buh Records is proud to present the debut album of Peruvian musician Mauricio Moquillaza. This collection features four pieces created with a modular synthesizer, blending innovative sequencing processes and minimalist repetitions while interweaving organic and melodic patterns with noisy abstract soundscapes. These works, the result of extensive experimentation in his studio, have been recorded in a single take, without any overdubs. Emerging from Lima's experimental music scene, Mauricio Moquillaza is also a bassist who has developed his sound practice at the intersection of noise and free improvisation. He is the founder of the collective Deshumanización, which has served as a platform to showcase a new generation of experimental music artists in the city. This perspective is crucial to understanding his work with the synthesizer, which he views as an extension of the spontaneous nature of improvisation. Consequently, his pieces have an irreproducible quality and explore the ongoing tension between control of the instrument and its generative possibilities. The four compositions in the album belong to a modern tradition of modular synthesizer use, an instrument that has experienced a global resurgence in recent years, expanding the aesthetics and possibilities of analog sound, while increasing the number of practitioners and developers in Peru. From this vantage point, Moquillaza embarks on his own exploration, offering a narrative that is striking in both its conciseness and its openness to the unknown. Mauricio Moquillaza's debut album is released in a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies by Buh Records. It has been mixed by Christian Mun and mastered by Simon Davey, with artwork by Aaron Julián.