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Créole Renaissance

Aruán Ortiz

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
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Tracks

L'Etudiant noir; Seven Aprils in Paris (and A Sophisticated Lady); Légitime Défense; From the Distance of my Freedom; Première Miniature (Créole Renaissance); The Great Camouflage; Deuxième Miniature (Dancing); We Belong to These Who Say No to Darkness; The Haberdasher; Lo Que Yo Quiero es Chan Chan.

Personnel

Aruán Ortiz

piano

Album Description

Intakt CD 441 Aruán Ortiz, celebrated piano cubist, distinguished jazz improviser, award-winning composer and idiosyncratic stylist, presents Créole Renaissance, his second solo piano album on Intakt Records which comes eight years after Cub(an)ism. "Ortiz is renowned for his prodigious technique, and multiple lineages converge in his hands, from Schoenberg, Messiaen, and Ligeti to Bebo Valdés, Don Pullen, and Cecil Taylor", writes Brent Hayes Edwards and adds "Aruán Ortiz’s stunning pianistic reflections on the implications of a Créole Renaissance start here, placing the music within a long history of collective Black study. Ortiz explains that he was inspired above all by the ways Négritude poets such as Aimé and Suzanne Césaire and René Ménil deployed 'surrealist techniques to shape a new kind of narrative of Afro-diasporic life and history in the Caribbean.' If Ortiz’s music is adamantly innovative and forward-looking, in other words, it reminds us of its deep roots in traditions of Black experimentation." Créole Renaissance combines intellectual depth, emotionality and creativity to create a fascinating musical statement. Reviews: www.intaktrec.ch/rev441.htm (Please note that reviews usually come in after the official release date)