Recorded halfway between Camaleon Music Studios in Madrid by Omar
Carrascosa and Santa Rosa Surround Studios in Alcalá de Henares by Santi
Fernández who mixed and mastered it. We would have to go back to 1999 with his “Solo
Album” release to find a precedent to this “Solo album volume 2”
and rediscover the restless and eclectic artist, hard to classify, even
uncomfortable for orthodoxy. A creator who does not adhere to any
conventionalism, who does not deny his influences from the beginning, with the great Thelonious Monk´s “Trinkle
Tinkle” recreation, inventing colors and musical geometries meant to be
discovered by the listener “Not so Long ”and“ Marketin ”both signed by Saiz just
to redo the risky exercise of recreating Monk´s “ Crepuscule With Nellie ”.
Chema Saiz writes in dissonances “Waltz in Dm”, proposes new background and
forms to the traditional song “Estaba la
pastora” giving the standard “I’m Confessin ‘That I Love You” a new content even
being one of his most Orthodox interpretations. “Introspection” relives
Monk´s great spirit due to Saiz’s non-transferable invoice, while Ellington’s “The
Mooche” along with “Stardust” take us back to the most primitive
Jazz. Eclecticism becomes evident on “Chotis nº 6” with Saiz´s signature
and “Pictures at an Exhibition” from the great Russian composer
Modest Mussorgsky to end up with “Lament” from American trombonist J.J.
Johnson.
“Solo Album volume II” is a musical chapter written by an
inscrutable mind in constant search. A work full of virtuosity that does not
run away from risk at any time to dismantle and rebuild its own influences
giving new meaning to what it was. Chema Saiz is a unique guitarist, a creator
who invents in each composition a language that vibrates for anyone who
approaches with courage, without prejudices or labels, whoever wants to feel,
just feel.
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