Top tip for the autumn: The Daniel García trio's Vía de la Plata

Rippling with starpower guests in Ibrahim Maalouf, Gerardo Núñez and Anat Cohen the core Daniel García trio is a formidable unit at the heart of the flamenco-infused Vía de la Plata. It's a top tip for the autumn as we think ahead to future …

Published: 2 Aug 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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Rippling with starpower guests in Ibrahim Maalouf, Gerardo Núñez and Anat Cohen the core Daniel García trio is a formidable unit at the heart of the flamenco-infused Vía de la Plata. It's a top tip for the autumn as we think ahead to future must-hear releases.

The Madrid based Salamanca born Spaniard pianist García, who was taught at Berklee in Boston by Danilo Pérez, uses Salamanca's Vía de la Plata (''the silver way'') as inspiration. First listens are very involving. Maalouf is superb in all mournfulness for instance on 'The Silk Road'. Elizarde's opening riff on 'Spring of Life' is also a pleasure.

García is a very positive player and there is a flowing involving trajectory to all the pieces.

The album, to be released by Siggi Loch's ACT Records in late-September, opens with an iridescent highly compelling and yet drastically different intimate arrangement of Manuel de Falla's 'Canción del fuego fatuo' (1915) that was famously interpreted by Miles Davis as 'Will o' the Wisp' on Sketches of Spain (1960), the García version unveiling the poetic side of Maalouf so delightfully.

Reinier Elizarde “El Negrón”, above left, Daniel García, Michael Olivera. Photo: Uli Fild

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Dominique Pifarély draws on the inspiration of Paul Celan towards the celestial world

The poet Paul Celan (1920-70) is the abiding inspiration of violinist Dominique Pifarély's Suite: Anabasis new this month on the Jazzdor Series label. Celan, born in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family and who studied medicine in Paris just …

Published: 2 Aug 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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The poet Paul Celan (1920-70) is the abiding inspiration of violinist Dominique Pifarély's Suite: Anabasis new this month on the Jazzdor Series label. Celan, born in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family and who studied medicine in Paris just before the second world war, was later sent by the Nazis to a forced labour camp from which he escaped. He wrote mainly in German and was influenced by surrealism. On this studio recording of Pifarély's composition Suite: Anabasis the violinist, known for his work on the ECM label for instance 2015 release solo violin album Time Before and Time After on which literary inspirations included Mahmoud Darwish, Fernando Pessoa and again Celan figured can punctuate bittersweet tonalities with jostling staccato phrasing as easily as he can conjure lovely legato reveries. With Pifarély on the suite are cellists Valentin Ceccaldi and Bruno Ducret, flautist Sylvaine Hélary, saxophonists Matthieu Metzger and François Corneloup, pianist Antonin Rayon and drummer François Merville. An anabasis if you are wondering say Jazzdor ''is an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country'' and also represents ''the rise of the spirit towards the sacred mountain, the celestial world.''