TORE H. BOE - ANLA COURTIS

"Blot og Mono Middagshvil"
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Alan Courtis, aka Anla Courtis, Courtis is a remarkable guitarist and sound generator who lives in Buenos Aires. He's the leading force of the underground in the noise/digital/drone music field. In this interview Courtis makes himself clear about his purposes in music: the permanent searching in discovering new possibilities of sounds, his approach with the instruments as the interaction between the ideas/sense and a source material; and the freeforms for the music with out 'controlling' sounds and improvising and letting the music unfold fluently.

He has a solid background as a trainee on classical guitar, piano, theory, composition and graduate of the University Of Buenos Aires in Communication Science. In the music field he carries out an annual music workshop at this university for people with and with out 'disabilities'. He has played guitar in several bands and in 1993 he's co-founder of Reynols, nowadays a kind of cult band that split-up last year, although some of its members still work together. He has a wide discography of more than 20 albums as a solo artist, with Reynols about other 20 records released and new releases to come out soon. He has collaborated live and in the studio with several artists such us Lasse Marhaug, Massona, Lee Ranaldo [Sonic Youth], Richard Bishop [Sun City Girls] Pauline Oliveros, Yoshimi P-Wee [Boredoms], John Oswald, The Moglass, Francisco López, Makoto Kawabata [Acid Mothers Temple], to name a few.

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