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Award-Winning French-Cuban Composer GABRIEL URGELL REYES Releases Eclectic Album ‘ARBORETUM’
Textured, eclectic, and gloriously bizarre, this powerful album is a refreshing blend of classical, jazz, electroacoustic and Cuban rhythms that have sprung up from an authentically experimental exploration of nature’s relationship to humanity.
With a virtuosity in its writing and performance, the album’s ‘organic’ narrative was originally born in Gabriel’s previous album, ‘Metaphor of Silence’, and now, in ‘Arboretum’, takes on new life as it explores a botanical garden devoted to trees.
Featuring operatic mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet and guitarist Augustin Pesnon, the album was produced and art directed by Gabriel Urgell Reyes, with executive production by Océane Urgell- Drobnik, sound engineer Aude-Marie Piloz, and mastered by Simon Gibson at legendary Abbey Road Studios.
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« It is an eruptive, joyful, rhythmic work, it is lush, like the art cover, a kind of musical and colorful kaleidoscope ... this is the universe of Gabriel Urgell Reyes (…) « A very beautiful double disc »
Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier & Emilie Munera, France Musique, 14 février 2021 (Fr)
« The eclectic French-Cuban composer returns with an album in the form of vegetal melting-pop with electro and jazz sounds (...) « A luxuriant double album »
Technikart : « Mes plantes vertes sont mélomanes ! » (interview)
Laurence Rémila, Technikart Magazine, 4 décembre 2020 (Fr)
« The French-Cuban pianist and composer Gabriel Urgell Reyes has just released a new album in which he explores human emotions through plants, continuing along the path traced by his previous work 'Metaphor of Silence' »
El Invitado : El pianista cubano Gabriel Urgell Reyes, nuevo album, nuevo estilo (interview)
Jordi Batallé, Radio France Internationale, 9 décembre 2020 (Fr)
« A continuation of the boundary-breaking style Reyes has become known for. Using his creative dynamism and drawing in an eclectic musicality, he fuses contemporary classical music and jazz together. As he redefines the image of classical musicians, his music inundates the senses and leaves you floating in its beauty. »
Gabriel Urgell Reyes – Altera Majestas
Claudia M, The Other Side Reviews, 11 décembre 2020 (Royaume-Uni)