A Looper Sighting

For the information and enjoyment of Loopers’ Delight members

From an Argentinian newspaper article tonight, 13 April 2000, two extracts from it:

<<At 10-years old she started playing guitar.  At 13, she was playing lead with David Lebón's white Gibson, and played in the afternoons with Pedro Aznar, Mono Fontana and her brother Lito Epumer, recreating Stevie Wonder songs.  Two years later, she accomplished her first recording in a studio for María Rosa Yorio's solo debut, and at around 20 she got to shake the rock scene with the unprejudiced "Viudas e Hijas de Roque Enroll" ("Widows and Daughters of Roque Enroll" (transliteration of Rock'n Roll)).  Later, just like Rodolfo— one of the Orozco brothers— she played with everybody:  From Charly García— of whom she became the official guitarist— to Fito Páez, and took part in projects that linked her with many of the most representative of Argentinian rock musicians.  Now, María Gabriela Epumer has decided that the time has come to go it alone, and has now a very interesting second album in which the word soloist loses a little of its literal meaning.

For the recording, she counted on the participation of the very English Robert Fripp— the crimson king of the legendary band King Crimson— Charly García, Fito Páez, Emmanuel Horvilleur of the Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas, Francisco Bochatón, Richard Coleman, Fernando Samalea, and Fernando Kabusacki, among others.  Additionally, she recorded a cover from Luis Alberto Spinetta, one from La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros ("The Bird-making Machine," a 70s superband), and another from Daniel Melero.>>

<<The first two especially since my teenage years, so it was like allowing me a very personal pleasure.

--Like including one of Fripp's soundscapes.

--Yes, of course. Even though it was a bit casual. Kabusacki (who belongs to Epumer's stable band) told Fripp that we were recording, and asked him if he'd be interested in participating.  I sent him a copy of my songs, and some time later he returned it with his recording.  He composed some incredible sounds for the beginning of "Quiero estar entre tus cosas" ("I Want to Be Among Your Things").>>

The album will be finalized sometime in early May and should be on sale in Argentina later this year.