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Album

The Unquiet Sky

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Therefore; Epilogue; New Deal; Air; Gym Jam; Six; Three Days After; Beginning; Minor Tragedy; Transition; Old Recipe; Major Issues; Short Piece; The Bean.

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Albert Vila: The Unquiet Sky

Read "The Unquiet Sky" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 1, 2016

Belgium-based Spanish jazz guitarist Albert Vila delivers his fourth album as leader with The Unquiet Sky, offering a tad more music than a standard album with a presentation of fourteen original compositions of modern-styled jazz that's quite appealing. There's little question whose recording this is as the leader's electric guitar voice becomes the center-piece of the ...

Album

Standards

By Albert Vila

Label: Quadrant Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: East Of The Sun; Very Early; Soul Eyes; It's Alright With Me; Summer Night (Intro); Summer Night; 26-2; You're My Everything; One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Intro); One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

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Albert Vila: Standards

Read "Standards" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 21, 2013

Just because a record doesn't have many surprises doesn't mean it must be predictable or prosaic, a line of thinking for which Albert Vila's Standards makes a good case. The Barcelona-based guitarist delivers a program of well-known material from the likes of compositional giant Cole Porter, saxophone legend John Coltrane, piano icon Bill Evans and other ...

Album

Tactile

By Albert Vila

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Talk; Now; Leviathan; Blue; Perception; Signs; Transgenic.

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Albert Vila: Tactile

by Dan Bilawsky
July 29, 2011

Barcelona-based guitarist Albert Vila doesn't buy into the idea of generic compositions that go down easy, but result in a hunger for more substantial aural nourishment. Vila makes music with the utmost care and concern for texture, taste and dramatic development, and each one of his compositions is a mini-odyssey through his mind. ...