Wahl / Santana / Rux – Donde Son Estas Serranas (CD)
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Lee Santana has spent decades bridging the world of early music and improvisation, and this collaboration with guitarist Andreas Wahl and poet Carl Hancock Rux takes that work somewhere genuinely unexpected. The ancient serrana form, a medieval Iberian song type rooted in encounters with mountain women, becomes a living thread connecting Renaissance lute idioms to contemporary harmonic language. It's the kind of project that rewards patient listening, where each revisiting of the source melody reveals new architecture beneath it.
"Dónde son estas serranas" is the new concept album of composer and lutenist Lee Santana, together with German jazz guitarist and composer Andreas Wahl. The program is based on an ancient Spanish love song. It reappears throughout the album in different arrangements and compositions, some very close to the original, some very far away from it. The music ranges from Spanish Renaissance music to contemporary Jazz and Rock elements, creating a mesmerizing fusion of music from very different times and styles, melting centuries of western music culture into something absolutely new, unique and timeless. Lee Santana is an American lutenist and composer who resides and works in Bremen, Germany. He has composed a variety of works for early instruments, and regularly performs with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the gambist Hille Perl, and in the group Los Otros, among others. Andreas Wahl was born in Stuttgart and studied jazz guitar at the University of Arts ArtEZ in the Netherlands. He performs concerts all over the world, and has recorded albums both as a solo artist and with various bands and projects like the Zodiak Trio, Frele Wahl, and The Bliss.
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UPC: 4032324163198
Label: Carpe Diem
Release Date: 11.16.18
Format: CD