SLAMCD568 Jorge Cabadas – More Steps

Solo guitar album by Spanish guitar player, composer, arranger and musical director, Jorge Cabadas.

“More Steps is another stage in my quest as a soloist in the field of real time composition. In the 21st century, I am humbly attempting to pick up the baton of previous masters: Bach, Bartok , Cage, Ornette , AMM , Lester Bowie, etc. It is also a journey through my very own personal ‘mikrokosmos’. I intend to find an order in the random by taking the structures arising from the immediate to a point of rest and conclusion. It essentially has to do with wanting to shape the random.” – Jorge Cabadas

Jorge Cabadas: guitar

“The pieces sound like private musings rather than a public performance, but Cabadas weaves his own unhurried magic. It needs big speakers and attention to balance, bass and treble to get the full spacious effect. Cabadas is more Philip Catherine than Bill Frisell. There’s a tzigane influence lurking somewhere in the background, not much blues, a frosting of spacey flamenco and some Arabic touches. It’s been beautifully recorded in the archive building at Jaén, a culturally complex and fascinating corner of southern Spain. If that’s where Cabadas hails from, it explains the many layered nature of his music.” – Brian Morton, Jazz Journal

“Jorge Cabadas uses his guitar in a variety of sounds and moods, creating a mix of picking the strings with a myriad of electronic effects. Moody pickings mix with sonic wallpaper as on “Experiment #3” and the space-is-the-place feel of “She Explores the Void”. A mix of Brian Eno ambience and contemplative pickings dominate throughout, with gadgets galore on “AEE” and Kraftwerk for 6 strings coming across on “Diving (Part 2).” Eno with an axe?” – George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

Recorded at the Historical Archive of Jaén (Spain) May 25 & 26, 2015 by Bernardo Jurado & Antonio Félix Vico
Mastered by Antonio Félix Vico

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