The delicate ones are bittersweet Piano tone. They sound like winter on Mallorca, like a breath of cold that overlooks the view deserted streets of Palma when you close the shutters on a drafty January evening. Or focus on one aimlessly nightly stroll through the city whose pulse slows down at the beginning of the year and is lost in their own, sometimes cloudy, thoughts.
The impression that the piano piece “Crui I: Palma“ (“Riss I”) is no coincidence: “I actually wrote this music in the months of October to December after lonely walks at night through Santa Catalina,” he says Mallorcan pianist and composer Magí Garcías. “It is inspired by these moments: the damp cold, the few people in a place where there would normally be a lot of people. About this contrast and the feeling of being alone in the city.”
Aesthetically and thematically connected pieces
The piece is the first of a triptych am 9. Februar als EP „Palma Ciutat Trista“ ausschließlich published digitally is. The “cracks” that give the title to the short pieces refer to a formal problem that plagued Garcías: “I have two concepts perceived as irreconcilable: That music sounds fresh and genuine, but still has a structure that can be understood. It was difficult for me to bring it all together in one composition,” says the pianist.
His three short pieces are aesthetically and thematically connected and show a progressive crescendo: The pure, minimalist piano sounds allow the music to emerge as if from a nucleus. Then it continues to grow: at “Crui II: Santa Catalina” come in Cello added, played by Zuzanna Sosnowska. Finally, at “Cross III: Distance“ (“Ferne”) the singing of the baritone Joan Miquel Muñoz can be heard.
Inspired by grandparents
The second “crack” sounds warmer, more diverse and has a even more personal inspiration as the first piece: After “wild years in Muro”, the pianist moved back to his hometown of Palma, near Saint Catherine. “My feet carried me right there as if by themselves Area where my grandparents had lived“, he says. Coincidence or the product of a deeper connection to his family’s roots? For Garcías, this triggered something that he wanted to incorporate into his music: “It should be my sad Vision of a torn postcard reflect. About something beautiful that today is nothing more than a memory.”
The third piece is a song with one Text seines Vaters Onofre Garcías. A sonnet whose lines are irritating because they are one Love letter with bucolic metaphors, which apparently have nothing to do with urban Palma. “I liked this contradiction,” Garcías explains. In addition, it is as if the addressee is closing his eyes to reality: “For me, that’s like a pointless declaration of love for a city, which will never be heard because this city is already disappearing.”
The EP is particularly recommended for summer vacationers and part-time residents who have never experienced Palma in winter – it musically conveys feelings that… otherwise only to the residents of the city are reserved.
2024-02-11 12:27:56
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