$20 admission / $5 for kids / 4:30 doors / 4:45 start
The Octet(o)
Fernando Brandao (Flutes)
Dan Rosenthal (Trumpet)
Rick DiMuzio (Tenor sax and clarinet)
Eric Hofbauer (Guitar)
Pablo Ablanedo (Piano and composition)
Fernando Huergo (Bass)
Bertram Lehmann (Drums)
The most remarkable aspect of the music of Pablo Ablanedo is the compositions themselves. As an artist Mr Ablanedo has a prodigious gift for sonic architecture. It appears that sound – acoustics of the empirical kind, that is – seems to speak to Mr Ablanedo in a very private and special way. Note frequencies are revealed in secret, which results in magical combinations of notes – and therefore sounds – which together are strung up like artifacts of immense beauty; remarkable dalliances of melody and harmony; agitated atoms and molecules glued together in rhythms that are at once ancient and yet modern. Even more extraordinary – I suspect – is the fact that Mr Ablanedo could be anywhere in this world and music would resonate within him in exactly the same way as it does. By this, I suppose, is the fact that Mr Ablanedo is Argentinean by birth, but his music reflects an otherworldly source, quite independent of what may be his own cultural skin and sensibility.
By Raul Da Gama - The Latin Jazz Network