David Virelles, Román Díaz & The Nosotros Ensemble – Gnosis (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:20 minutes | 878 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
In “Gnosis”, the Santiago de Cuba-raised and New York-based pianist-composer David Virelles looks towards one melting pot from the vantage point of another. At one level an autobiographical album, a sequence of images conveyed through sound, Gnosis is a far- reaching work with deep roots. Transculturation and traditions are among the subjects under consideration, and the complex tapestry of Cuba’s music: the sacred, the secular, and the ritualistic. It’s an exciting, vivid and multi-faceted project of rapidly changing temperament, in which pulsating ensemble music and pristine, meditative solo piano both have their places. And it is enveloped in a feeling of mystery and magic that has made each of Virelles’s albums special.
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