Daniel Garcia Trio - Vía de la Plata

Act Music

£15.68

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: ACT9936-2
Barcode: 0614427993625
Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
Genre: Jazz

 Salamanca is a city steeped in history, with ancient archaeological sites. For centuries student priests have walked in their flowing robes along the Calle Compañia, a central street shadowed by tall baroque buildings. The city was one of the main stopovers on the Vía de la Plata (‘the silver way’), a Roman route from North to South of the Iberian Peninsula.
 Daniel García has a deep feeling for what that ancient silver thread through his country means: it gave the peninsula its main artery. Spain exists as a melting pot of different cultures, with influences Celtic and Nordic, from the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa, and from the Americas too. Vía de la Plata is a living symbol of how “all of this melts together in Spain,” as García explains.
 The pianist’s awareness of these different cultures which have formed Spain is everywhere in this album: the guests represent musical heritages from different points of the compass. Charismatic clarinettist Anat Cohen, raised in Israel, now based in the Americas produces wonderful emotion on ‘Pai Lan’, a tune dedicated to García’s wife. Trumpet star Ibrahim Maalouf was born in Beirut; ‘Silk Road’ is a glimpse of the East.
 Guitarist Gerardo Núñez and García are equally fascinated by the links between Flamenco and jazz. In their first co-operation here they show a natural empathy, notably in Calima, named after the wind that carries sandstorms from the Sahara. García’s trio fellows - Reinier Elizarde (bass), Michael Olivera (drums) - are from Cuba. García met them on the scene in Madrid. All are in their mid-Thirties, close friends on and off stage.
 García is also a passionate advocate for Salamanca’s musical heritage. The title track, ‘Vía de la Plata’, with its intoxicating echoes of both Ravel and the Cameroonian coupé-décalé has García and Anat Cohen trading fragments of melodies from the charrada, a centuries-old Salamancan peasant dance, with everything fitting together miraculously and seamlessly.

Tracklisting
Canción del fuego fatuo (Manuel de Falla) 3:15 feat. Ibrahim Maalouf
Calle Compañía (Daniel García Diego) 5:01 feat. Gerardo Núñez
La leyenda del tiempo (Federico García Lorca / Ricardo Pachón Capitán) 5:22 feat. Anat Cohen
Spring of Life (Daniel García Diego) 3:37
The Silk Road (Daniel García Diego) 7:19 feat. Ibrahim Maalouf
Pai Lan (Daniel García Diego) 5:35 feat. Anat Cohen
Volar (Paco de Lucía) 4:06
Vía de la Plata (Daniel García Diego) 4:58 feat. Anat Cohen
Mar de la tranquilidad (Daniel García Diego) 4:51
Calima (Gerardo Núñez) 4:53 feat. Gerardo Núñez

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