Víctor’s music emerges from the intersection of several planes that sustain and tension each other: the unspeakable, the ordering principle and the overflow. At this intersection, an invisible, tense and necessary knot forms. Making music is a way of continuing the search; a symptom that does not subside, an urgent and necessary act. This album explores these knots, examining spaces where fragility and tension coexist, and presenting music as an act of resistance and dialogue.
Guitarist and composer Víctor Antón began his studies at the Zamora Conservatory, where he obtained a professional degree in piano performance. He obtained a higher degree in jazz guitar performance at Musikene, where he also studied for a master’s degree in jazz performance. He has a degree in philosophy, history, and music sciences. He teaches jazz guitar at the Centro Superior de Música Creativa in Madrid and has collaborated with various projects and artists in different fields, including The Soul Messengers, Kass & The Gingerbread Boys, Little Jerry Williams, Ariel Brínguez, and Guillermo McGill. He has also found success as the leader of his own project, releasing records such as Motion (2016), Changing Gears (2019), Standards Session (2022), Centennial Light (2022), and his latest release, Knots (Inevitable Music).
An album featuring Daniel Juárez on tenor saxophone (Adam Nussbaum, Dave Liebman, Rhonda Ross, Kevin Hays, Jerry González, Perico Sambeat). Toño Miguel on double bass (Antonio Serrano, Sheila Blanco, Dave Liebman, Fred Hersch, Dick Oatts, Paquito D’Rivera, Jerry González) and Naíma Acuña on drums (Antonio Serrano, Jorge Pardo, Abe Rabadé, Greg Osby, Mulgrew Miller, Marquis Hill).
Recorded at Camaleón Music Studio in Madrid by Diego Román, mixed and mastered by Rodrigo Ballesteros, Knots (Inevitable Music) is an exhaustive and magnificent contemporary jazz album. Victor Antón’s guitar and original compositions are the main protagonists and pillars on which the avant-garde and innovative sound is based. The compositions are full of dialogue, such as in Look at Me, and evocative spaces, such as in Sueño 1, which reveal the sinuous and hopeful corridors of A 4000. Reencuentro en 3 and Fluid Conversation blur any stylistic or formal barriers that might interfere with the restless, innovative character of an artist with an urgent need to create. The record is formulated in a flexible and ductile manner, fostering a permanent dynamic dialogue between musicians and keeping listeners on the edge of their seats. It expands majestically over the beautiful melodic passages of Al Aire and synthesizes its jazzy and experimental essence in the eloquent Mirror. Victor Antón concludes his fifth record 12 Beats por Palestina.
Everything that is unknown is truly permanent; the definitive always hangs by the invisible and inexhaustible thread of creativity. Perhaps a capricious stroke, a knot sustained by conflicting impulses negotiating an unknown horizon and yet synchronized in search of the new, the unwritten but which will end up being inevitable music.
