JOSEP-MANEL VEGA

Unortodox self-made guitarist, composer and improviser. Contemporary jazz musician in his own way.

Presents an original production, built from an eclectic musical background, which is explored in several formats (solo, duo, trio, group and orchestra, and also playing acoustic on Spanish guitar). A personal musical language focused on improvisation, inspired by musicians such as Keith Jarret, Bill Frisell, Ralph Towner, Nguyên Lê , "high-risk" rock bands such as King Crimson or unconventional proposals such as The Bad Plus.

FREE PLAYING AT OWN RISK

Nguyên Lê says that a musician should be himself at the most when he plays. That is what I strive for, humbly assuming that I am nothing more than that, but not less either.

I devotedly submit myself to the ritual of the concert, hoping to experience a state of liberation through music that, according to Keith Jarret, not even the greatest musicians achieve for more than a few brief moments at a time.

What I play woud be jazz, always from an open and integrative conception of what jazz can mean. In words by Bill Frisell, a way of connecting with and transforming what surrounds us. But also progressive music, meant as open music "without rules or limits". And, moreover, contemporary: always new music, created in the present to be continuously transformed in the future.

NEW ALBUM

 DUO/SOLO (2024)

"This album has been an awareness of what I have really been doing for the last few years: the construction of a vehicle through which to channel a need to give myself through music that has been latent since my early childhood."

-  Josep-Manel Vega