[Music & Inclusion]

Argentine inclusive band REYNOLS on The Wire's Top50 "Archive releases of the Year"


In their traditional end-of-year rewind, THE WIRE magazine includes “Minecxio Emanations 1993-2018” a box set by REYNOLS, the Argentinian inclusive group led by a Down's Syndrome drummer. It's on their “Archive Releases of the Year” Top50 section, where REYNOLS apperars on #24, sharing the charts with artists such as: Brian Eno (#42), John Coltrane (#3), Alice Coltrane (#4), Popol Vuh (#37), Tangerine Dream (#9), Pauline Oliveros (#39), Robert Ashley (#2), Renaldo and the Loaf (#50), etc.

REYNOLS' box set was released by Norweigian label Pica Disk and contains 6CDs, 1DVD +2 booklets with 52 remastered tracks of mostly unreleased stuff, plus 90 minutes of video. The box set was also awarded as “Record of the Week” by San Francisco music blog Whydoyoulikeit.com and considered “Best of 2019” by Italian distro SoundOhm . Also radio specials about the box set were broadcasted in worldwide radios including: Resonance FM (UK), WFMU (USA), Radio Nacional de España (Spain) and positive reviews appeared all around the globe in media like: Libération (France), Gonzo Circus (Netherlands), ディスカホリックによる音楽夜話 (Japan), ToneShift (USA), Blow Up (Italy), Brainwashed (USA), Vice (France), La Nación (Argentina), Corrupted Delights (Greece), Clarin (Argentina), Manchas y Ruido (Spain), The Pulse (EEUU), etc.

REYNOLS formed in 1993 in Buenos Aires and included members Roberto Conlazo, Alan Courtis and Down's Syndrome drummer Miguel Tomasín described as their "spiritual architect". The band is one of the Argentine groups with more releases abroad: its catalague shows more than 120 releases in labels from Japan, Europe, Oceania LatinAmerica and USA. It has been previously considered as "cult group" by The Wire and French festival Sonic Protest proclaimed it as “groupe phare” (lighthouse group) of music integration for people with disabilities. Japanese cult magazine Studio Voice included their album Reynols/No Reynols amongst the “300 Legendary Discs” of all times, and UK magazine Fact considered 10.000 Chickens Symphony as one of the "20 Best Argentine Psychedelic Records" ever made. The band played and presented stuff in institutions such as: Lincoln Center (New York), Uplink Factory (Tokyo), Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art (Malmö), Kulturbunker (Köln), Deep Listening Space (Kingston NY), BOZAR (Brussels), Echo Film Park Center (Los Angeles), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), MALBA (Buenos Aires), Spectacle Theater (New York), Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires), Audio Foundation (Auckland), No Nothing Cinema (San Francisco), Kulturhuset (Stockholm). It was also the first group with a Down's Syndrome member to play regularly at Argentine National TV. In 2018 an exhibition about the band was made at the Médiathèque Musicale in Paris. REYNOLS appears in dozens of films and books and recently a Spanish publisher added the band to a Sticker Album. For his work with REYNOLS, Miguel Tomasín has been considered as one of the most relevant personalities with Down's Syndrome worldwide and his name appears mentioned in diverse books of Neuroscience and Neurodiversity.

Scheduled for next year is the forthcoming LP Acid Mothers Reynols “Vol.1” (a studio colaboration with Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple) and a documentary film about this historic meeting. Also a fanzine about the band with the new CD “Home Tapes Vol.1” will be released in England, along with several more records coming in diverse countries.



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https://www.thewire.co.uk/

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/reynols-interview

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