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Spark of Desire by Hugo Fernandez

From the album

Album Title: Ozean
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022

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About the Album

‘Ozean’ is German for “ocean,” where life on Earth started and the pathways for forging cultural exchange and enrichment of civilization were navigated. The beauty, importance and fragility of the waterways were front-of-mind as guitarist Hugo Fernandez composed this music for his Berlin-based quartet. Born in Mexico, with stops at Berklee and the University of New Orleans before a decade in Madrid and now Berlin, Fernandez's experiences through life in these vivid cultural capitals comes through the music with wide-ranging elements of folkloric forms, Western classical music, and even pop, informing his deep jazz sensibilities. With trumpeter Christoph Titz, bassist Martin Lillich, and fellow expat, drummer Jesus Vega, they embrace a musical world that could be a "forward-looking vision of jazz” (House of World Cultures, Berlin). "...personality, competence and a sound all of its own..." — El Pais (Spain)

Tracks

Spark of Desire; Imaginary Geometry; Caribbean Illusion; Birdhouse; Undercurrent; Watertones; Neptune Grass; Latina.

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Date featured

May 30, 2022

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