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(28.04.15 - 23:39) - Lake:
“Brilliant contemporary jazz...his music unfolds with echoes of New York's current jazz guitar scene, but also of John Abercrombie and Pat Metheny.”
- Tomajazz, Spain
Originally from Mexico, guitarist Hugo Fernandez graduated from Berklee and the University of New Orleans before moving to Spain several years ago. For his debut recording on Origin, he assembled a multicultural group of imaginative artists, including Cuban saxophonist Ariel Bringuez, Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel, and drumming great Antonio Sanchez, to explore a broad range of lyrical new originals. "Each tune comes as an evocative 'abracadabra' that the guitarist proceeds to cast." - Eclectic Magazine.
PRODUCTION:
Produced by Hugo Fernandez
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pablo Baselga at Infinity Records, Madrid, Spain on July 1, 2014
Photography by Jose Aguilar & Vanessa Labrada
Cover design & layout by John Bishop
REVIEWS:
Midwest Record (Chris Spector)
A world wise/world traveled guitarist with multi-culti sensibilities travels the Abercrombie/Metheny route to world soundings. An expert and being laid back without falling over, Hernandez brings his crew with south of the border sensibilities right to the fore of contemporary, progressive guitar work that relies on features other than pyrotechnic ...
All About Jazz (Jack Bowers)
Of all the instruments in a group or orchestra, none has a broader or more variable sonic profile than the guitar. When it is played properly, with earnestness and sincerity, a guitar can move the listener to tears; when it is used, however, is to elicit sounds that are best described as disquieting and cacophonous, that is another matter entirely. ...
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