Live in Montreal Archive
Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda – Live In Montreal – Telarc
Too much talent at one time and in one place Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda – Live In Montreal – Telarc 00026 72:11**** ( Hiromi – piano; Edmar Castaneda – harp) Sometimes too much talent at one time and in one place is recipe for auditory overload. Such might be the case for the album Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda Live In Montreal. Recorded on June 30, 2017, at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, the two artists put a display of technical and harmonic wizardry that often defies description. So fasten your seat belts as you hit the play button. The compositions presented in the recital for the most part, come from the pens of Hiromi and Castaneda with two exceptions. First John Williams “Cantina Band” was used in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope film released in 1977 and the other is Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango”. The breezy interpretation of the former offered by the duo is restlessly creative with each partner smoking out unlikely connections to the music that is filled with harmonic edginess and rhythmic boldness. On the Piazzolla composition, the Latin flavour is defined by Castaneda’s harp as he picks the strings with a rhythmic sure […]