I present to you my new album, “Letter to Milos”, conceived during the last and a half year, which is my musical statement in 2022. I have created it along with my fellow travel companions in Talismán (2020) and Ravel's Dreams (2017): Aleix Tobias on drums and a thousand percussions, and Martín Meléndez on cello, unraveling resources, colors and nuances as only they know.
“Letter to Milos” is not only a love letter to my son in his first year of life: it is the heartfelt testimony of what —I feel— best describes myself artistically, today.
I have poured the lyricism that inhabits me, and my many convictions into the music herein: from my declared love of tonality to the liberty of free, creating a crossroad between the joy that I find in the composition of small pieces, and improvisation and the spirit of playing.
In 2Letter to Milos” we explore new paths and sounds: the meditative and hypnotic depth of “Nacimiento” or “Infinito”, the power and groove of “Charrada de la vida” or “Sonajero”, the progressive pop of “El Cielo en tus Brazos ”, the nod to blues and circus in “Percebes y zamburiñas”, the minimal punk in “Pauta completa”, and the edges of free in “Onírico” and “Umbilical”; we pay tribute to various forms of Iberian music (sorteado, acechado, bulería) with “Pandero Suite”, created together with Aleix Tobias; we let ourselves go in the subtle and naive melody of “El beso” by Martín Meléndez and “Lluminosa”, we invented our particular syncretism, mixing Cuban son and Brazilian samba, in “Passarinho”; “Letter to Milos” and “Milos Smiles” are the marks of my love of romanticism (with a subtle tribute to Brahms) and jazz standards, respectively.
Here goes my musical letter, from me to you; and I wish you enjoy it.
Marco Mezquida