The renowned guitarist Edward Fog (Tangier, 1955), with a extensive worldwide career guiding him, landed on the island as one of the levels of his Tour of the Mediterranean Festival. A musical adventure he shares with fellow guitarist Joao Lima and which plays the two jazz and flamenco, between other variations.
How did the thought for this tour appear about?
– My thought is to carry the colors of the instrument nearer to the public, a guitar complete of common tones, of the very unique nations around the world in which I have played, both equally in the earth of classical audio, jazz and environment songs. I grew up in Girona and hence I am also Mediterranean, although I have lived in other international locations for many a long time. The Mediterranean is often anchored in your soul.
Why are church buildings selected as a body?
– The church is a pretty solemn location, a incredibly intriguing room, as it is commonly developed with big vaults and which creates a reverberation in the notes. This makes it possible for you to perform with the ambiance of the position. I like to give place to the notes and meditate on them. The guitar is an incredible instrument in these areas, although in some places it can be a challenge, but I like it.
A distinctive ambiance of recollection is produced.
-Distinctive. Go quite deep into the suggestions you increase. It is truly exciting, especially for someone like me, who improvises a great deal.
Is improvisation just one of your good hallmarks?
-Yup. I like to abide by the outdated way of the fantastic classical musicians and also some contemporary ones. You need to know wherever the concept is on a harmonic amount and develop from there. The journey commences wherever know-how has performed its job. You commence making a area and a area. Then, persons fail to remember a small bit what they are observing, which is a six-stringed instrument, and the audio begins to enter area, a entire world of sensitivity, emotion and pure natural beauty.
Is the guitar the instrument that finest represents Spain?
—The Spanish guitar is remarkably highly regarded internationally. It is an instrument that has been a regular for Spanish musicians. The style of the culture below, and in certain flamenco, has lifted the bar and taken the guitar to a further level.
His music has no lyrics, but it has a concept. What do you intend to express?
– I bet a ton on human universality, on reducing the barriers and starting up to use flags on a folkloric degree, not to separate us. I wager that all the edges of the environment are decreased and that we are living to assistance each individual other, share understanding and dedicate ourselves to investing in the peace and effectively-being of humanity. We ought to dialogue and bury the weapons of war.
Music in the provider of peace.
—My audio is an invitation to dialogue, harmony and appreciate of folks. The world is not a opposition, it is a collaboration.
What does the guitar necessarily mean in your life?
-All. My companion, my salvation She aided me satisfy other folks, even you love. In my most tough times she assisted me and opened the universe ahead of me. She laughed and even cried with me. It is complicated to set into words and phrases.
In quick, a great vacation companion.
Yes, due to the fact I was a child. And then what it has is that it is quite simple to carry, you set it on your shoulder and you carry it. When I go to the beach, I sit with her beneath an umbrella, watching the waves, and concepts come to head that I file as notes for my information.
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