Alvaro Severino – Kgen-Kürüf (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:50 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: World, Latin, Jazz
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A string of wind connects and unleashes the beauty of this record, aerial like Kgen-kürüf, the spirit who in Mapuche cosmology owns the air and is said to manifest in the wind’s song. Such mood guides this journey and ties it together, a journey where the musician takes his beloved homeland to other lands, paying on the lightest and clearest of all strings: the whisper of music.
Throughout eight compositions the Chilean guitarist Álvaro Severino gives a new interpretation of the diverse sound geography of South America, exploring some of its rhythms and the meaning these develop when, faraway from home, they return though the spiral shell of remembrance. Joropo, chacarrera, cueca, vidala, jazz harmony, contemporary music and cross-cultural memory add up to the wonderful personal journey proposed by this delicate work.
If to remember is to re-play the strings of the heart, then Álvaro Severino plays this fabric weaved onto his guitar’s fingerboard, proving his extraordinary talent and poetic vision in his first work. The artist, currently based in the German Ruhr Area, joins a quartet with talented musicians from NYC, Bogotá and Santiago de Chile, to draw a map of integration and introspection, ranging from North to South and leading us to the greatest of treasures: the intimacy of his personal sound.
Tracklist:
01. Northwind
02. El Cucaracho Intro
03. El Cucaracho
04. Zamba Inocente
05. Aires de Joropo
06. Interludio
07. Deep Blue
08. Lando
09. Viento Del Sur
Personnel:
Alvaro Severino – guitar & composition
Ryan Carniaux – trumpet & flugelhorn
Joan Chavez – double bass
Pablo Sáez – drums
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