RAFAEL CATALA
Guitar player and Composer
The first piece on this CD, Mediterráneo (Mare nostrum), attempts to reflect the origins of the ancient civilisations that were born on the shores of this sea, which connects three continents.
Ancestral sounds, emerging from waters that unify different cultures. A music that awakens unexpected vestiges, that revives in the astonished listener unknown but not strange roots. The rhythm and the harmonies cradle that call of past times in a music rocked by slightly irregular measures, which emerges like a sweet vertigo, intimate, familiar, but in a certain way unknown.
A music that provokes the attraction of a cultural sphere to which perhaps we belong but have not yet discovered. The fascination of the near infinity of the sea, which reveals our limited human nature. The sea, which with each tide erases our footprints and continually returns us to the beginning of our being. Again and again.