NUEVO DISCO "SOLO GUITARRA"// NEW CD "SOLO GUITARRA"

PRESENTA 

José Luis Montón 

SOLO GUITARRA- ECM 

“...En este trabajo he intentado traducir sinceridad y amor por el arte que tanto aprecio cuando los encuentro.”

Al enfrentarme con el reto de hacer este trabajo, en el que como dice el título 

sólo hay guitarra, me pregunté que era lo que mas me emocionaba de cualquier 

artista y llegué a la conclusión de que es la sinceridad, así que he tratado de dar 

a este trabajo toda esa sinceridad y amor al arte que tanto disfruto cuando me 

lo encuentro. 

El Flamenco es muy bello en si mismo y le agradezco profundamente la inspiración que me ha proporcionado en toda mi carrera y en mi lucha personal por 

encontrarme a mi mismo a través de la música. 

Hay también una deuda importante con todos los grandes maestros de la guitarra flamenca que han engrandecido tanto su lenguaje, introduciendo nuevas letras en el alfabeto del Flamenco. 

Quiero dedicar este disco a los amigos que me apoyan siempre, cuando río y 

cuando lloro, a mi mujer por ser mi motor, a mi familia porque son mi sangre, 

y a Manfred y Stephano porque en el estudio de grabación me ayudaron a encontrar “my little potatoes”. 

Jose Luis Montón

PRESENTS 

José Luis Montón 

SOLO GUITARRA- ECM

Catalan guitarist José Luis Montón made a vital contribution to singer Amina Alaoui’s “Arco Iris” and during the session producer Manfred Eicher determined that a Montón solo project would be highly appropriate for ECM. Thus this extraordinary disc, recorded in Lugano last year. It’s a major artistic statement. With its programme of Montón compositions drawing upon the melodic subtleties, rhythmic vitality and emotional power of flamenco, making connections also to classical tradition, it can at once take its place alongside the label’s finest solo guitar albums. 

PROJECT

“As the title says, there is nothing but guitar”, José Luis Montón remarks in a brief and self-effacing liner note. Just an acoustic guitar, and an astonishing guitarist. Over the years at ECM it has often been the case that one record production has opened a door into another, and when Manfred Eicher heard José Luis Montón’s creative and sensitive playing at the session for singer Amina Alaoui’s Pan-Iberian “Arco Iris” project, the potential of a solo disc from Montón was apparent at once. Like “Arco Iris”, “Solo Guitarra” was recorded at the Auditorium RSI Lugano in Switzerland. The session took place in April 2011, exactly one year after the Alaoui date. 

In the solo pieces heard here the resourceful Montón builds upon the template, energy and emotional intensity of flamenco in the creation of his own pieces, rooted in the tradition and at the same time reaching toward new destinations: “Flamenco is very beautiful in itself and I am deeply grateful for the inspiration it has given me throughout my career and my personal struggle to find myself through music. I owe a special debt of gratitude to all the great masters of flamenco guitar that have enriched so much its language, introducing new characters in the alphabet of flamenco.” The flow of ideas in Montón’s pieces can be breathtaking, as melodic lines splinter into flurries of notes or dance elegantly through stacked rhythms, virtuosity always harnessed to thoroughly musical ends. The music also draws from other resources including classical music, Baroque music being specifically acknowledged with the J.S. Bach-inspired “Air”, which references the “Air” from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068. 

Born .

Jose Luis Montón