FERNANDO BEIZTEGUI & Hammond Lovers

For those who don’t know Fernando Beiztegui, he is a versatile blues guitarist and singer who moves with ease in both electric and acoustic blues, always respecting the most traditional canons of this style that he interprets with enormous feeling, veneration and love for the genre. A bluesman from the south of the peninsula, considered by some media as the sniper of purity. Beiztegui has spent his entire life on stage since he began giving his first concerts in his native Granada, and has shared moments and stage with great musicians and bands both national and international. His mastery with the guitar and his heartbreaking voice have made him an essential part of numerous festivals where he has performed.
His live performance follows those paths of the blues that, despite being well-known, are still attractive and that manage to get the listener carried away by each and every one of the songs on the album, all of them performed with good taste, elegance, a lot of groove and a feverish passion, by this excellent Andalusian bluesman and the musicians who accompany him. It is music blacker than chocolate, than tar, than the face of an ancestral god who blew on the musical scores.
On this occasion, Fernando Beiztegui presents us with an album with his own compositions plus some belonging to the keyboardist Alex Serrano. Always well accompanied by Alex Serrano on Hammond, piano and harpsichord, a keyboardist who does a sober and remarkable job, Dani Levy on bass with an excellent and notable drive and Cote Colmet on drums. These last two constitute the fundamental pillar on which the protagonists such as Alex and especially Beiztegui, who becomes the undisputed leader of the project, are based.
“Marked Cards” is the title of his latest collection of songs and Fernando Beiztegui certainly plays with marked cards. It gives the impression that he carries in his pocket the deck, faded and worn, with which John Mayall played one day long ago, the white blues born in the pubs of sleepy England.
The game has started and Beiztegui has winning cards. He has analyzed everything with his gang, the Hammond Lovers, and together with them he never loses.