Levity

 Hypnote Records presents the new album of Albert Vila, release date January 13, 2023.

From the beginning of his career, Albert Vila established himself as a unique musician on the European scene, with his love of strong melodies and well-crafted compositions. For his new album ‘Levity’, a first outing on solo guitar, Albert Vila offers a surprising and eclectic repertoire.

The jazz guitarist takes you from Antonio Carlos Jobim and American Jazz Standards to gems from Nick Drake, The Beatles and Bob Marley. While the repertoire is diverse, the respect for the artists and the coherence of each of the eight tracks develop organically over the course of the album. The global phenomenon of the pandemic catalysed this new album.

 

 

The album was conceived during the heaviest time of the pandemic, and in some way, creating these arrangements lifted Albert up, keeping him inspired through uncertainty and helping him to navigate its darkest moments.

Albert constantly treads new artistic paths and searches for an intimate connection between modern and classical musical aesthetics, the specific and the universal, while emphasising his narrative, evocative expression with strength and humility. As a listener you will certainly redis- cover songs you already know in a version that evokes purity and conceptual simplicity. Close your eyes and enjoy.

Summertime in Leith

 Summertime in Leith features legendary Canadian jazz musicians, bassist Paul Novotny and pianist, Oscar Peterson protégé Robi Botos in a visceral auditory experience that transports you to a picturesque Ontario hamlet, on a balmy, midsummer evening, in the middle of a jewel-like sanctuary of a historic Canadian church, surrounded by local folks engrossed at the moment.

Summertime in Leith presents an exciting impromptu performance by bassist Paul Novotny and pianist Robi Botos, (Oscar Peterson protégé), two legendary Canadian jazz musicians who want nothing more than to share in the exhilaration of the moment. “Summertime in Leith is sonic electricity.”

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Triplet Records

Other Zones

Decay

Zone 1

One More Please

Return of the Lost Tribe

Duets 1987

Quartet (Mestre)

Trio (London) 1993

Before The Wind Changes

Root 7

 Pioneer of the New York No Wave with the bands Mars and Don King, Mark Cunningham has been part of the Barcelona music underground for almost 30 years, performing solo, with his own groups Raeo, Convolution, Aleatory Grammar and Bèstia Ferida, as a member of Pascal Comelade´s Bel Canto Orchestra and Superelvis, and in countless local and international collaborations. Blood Quartet was formed in early 2015 in Barcelona from a fortuitous collaboration between Cunningham and Catalan underground rock trio Murnau B An outstanding musical treat that starts from the instrumental base of the modern jazz quartet and takes it to the territory of experimentation and electronics. Blood Quartet sound more luminous and rhythmic than ever, diving into uncharted terrain. This results in an exceptional range of genres that play with the form between the classic and the Artist: BLOOD QUARTET Title: ROOT 7 Labels: Cardinal Fuzz (Europe), Feeding Tube Records (USA), Release Date: 20th Jan 2023 contemporary, and that extend the creative spectrum of the band towards new styles, such as krautrock and North African music. The result of this process has given rise to nine themes, each one baptized with the title of a literary work by some reference writers of the members of the quartet, in order to add more roots of meaning, more shadows of influence. Root 7 is a 500 pressing on heavy black vinyl and presented in a 350gsm Matt Laminated Outer Sleeve. Released via Cardinal Fuzz, Feeding Tube Records and Foehn Records

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