Sergio Merce – Archipiélago (mastered by David Sylvian)

On October 3rd, 2025 the album Archipiélago will be released which is mastered by David Sylvian.

From Sergio:
Most people know my work as a saxophonist and also as a sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I use a microtonal sax that I built myself, and I modified it radically. This modification means the mechanisms of my alto saxophone create very rich harmonics and allow for slowly moving tonality.

With this recording though I wanted to explore a new approach to this idea of mircotonailty and texture. With “Archipiélago” I wanted to create a new way of approaching this depth of sound and form, which are the fundamental pillars of my music. In a certain sense these pieces show a different landscape, at the same time abstract and concrete, and are a development that pushes outward and I feel advances towards new limits of my abilities as a composer.

Disappearing into the silence, we seek to understand fear and suffering. Sometimes sound becomes silence and it is a vehicle that opens the doors of a new consciousness and perhaps, if everything goes well, we can see reality.

All pieces composed and performed by Sergio Merce
Recorded at Cayendo en Cruz studio, buenos Aires, between august 2024 and February 2025

Mastering: David Sylvian

Special thanks to David Sylvian and Lawrence English

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