75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com PRESS RELEASE 20 May 2021
SUMRRÁ 7 Visions CLE047
Después de 6 álbumes, el penúltimo inspirándose en las ciudades donde han actuado y el último en mujeres que han desafiado al mundo, SUMRRÁ da un paso atrás durante esta pandemia mirando hacia adentro, preguntándose sobre el tiempo, el tiempo inmenso, el tiempo universal, el tiempo estelar. Un segundo o 13.700 millones de años. Y la distancia: distancias reales aumentadas por las restricciones pandémicas que dan perspectiva. Perspectiva sobre quiénes somos, qué estamos haciendo, por qué y por cuánto tiempo, como individuos y como especie. SUMRRÁ se inspira en Visiones que inspiran estados de ánimo, estados mentales, conceptos radicales y de alegría, juego y libertad sin prejuicios.
SUMRRÁ - 3 músicos que han tocado juntos durante más de 20 años. Su familiaridad aporta una cohesión que combina la perspectiva individual en una armonía comprensiva. Desde Galicia, en el noroeste de España, su música mira hacia la composición y la improvisación contemporáneas. La instrumentación es el clásico trío de jazz: piano - Manuel Gutiérrez Iglesias; contrabajo - Xacobe Martinez Antelo; y batería - LAR Legido. Tres virtuosos que resuenan orgánicamente. Este séptimo album grabado en su ciudad natal, Santiago de Compostela, ha permitido que las complejas emociones de nuestro confinamiento pandémico se fundan en este ciclo de música impactante y poderosa.
After two albums - one taking inspiration from cities where they have performed and a second from women who have challenged the world - SUMRRÁ step back during this pandemic looking inward - wondering about Time - Huge time - Universal time - Stellar time. One second or 13.700 million years. And Distance - real distances heightened by pandemic restrictions that give perspective. Perspective on
Page 1 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com who we are, what we are doing, why, and for how long - as individuals and as a species. SUMRRÁ draw inspiration from Visions that inspire moods, mental states, radical concepts, and from joy, play, and freedom without prejudice.
SUMRRÁ - 3 musicians who have played together for 20 years. Their familiarity brings a cohesion that blends individual perspective into a sympathetic harmony. From Galicia in the northwest of Spain their music looks to contemporary composition and improvisation. The instrumentation is the classic jazz trio: piano - Manuel Gutierrez Iglesias; bass - Xacobe Martinez Antelo; and drums - LAR Legido. Virtuosos they resonate organically. Recorded in their hometown, Santiago de Campostela, the complex emotions of our pandemic confinement merge in this cycle of striking and powerful music.
CONTACT: Sumrra: Xacobe Martinez Antelo – [email protected] Clermont Music: Christopher Nolan - [email protected]
TRACKLIST 1. Ra. The Sun. The alpha and omega of our Solar System. 2. Periferia Universal. Universal Periphery. We are the periphery, within the periphery, within the periphery, 3. Asuán-Alexandría, 7 graos. Aswan-Alexandría, 7 degrees. This was how Eratosthenes demonstrated in the year 300 BC. c. that the earth was a giant round ball, and that it measured exactly 40,000km. 4. As Forzas Gravitatorias. The Gravitational Forces between planets, people, objects, thoughts, animals, atoms, galaxies… the universal dance. 5. Sapiens Sapiens. Well… that´s us. No need for big comments... 6. 13.700 millóns de anos despois. This is the time calculated from the Big Bang to the formation of Planet Earth 7. O Espazo Interior. The inner space. Our atoms share much more with the rest of the universe than we think.
Available worldwide, this album is released in CD, vinyl and digital formats. www.sumrra.com www.clermontmusic.com https://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1562714732 https://open.spotify.com/album/25uFFseztfOjLtN2HVgbun
Page 2 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com
SUMRRA 7 VISIONS CLE047 UPC-LP 711574919215 UPC-CD 711574919222 UPC-DI 196006056032
In this latest album, SUMRRÁ makes the inspired exercise of taking perspective and rethinking our own existence through music. The three musicians based in Santiago de Compostela look with new eyes at the "Sapiens Sapiens", the "Inner Space" that lives inside each one of us, or the "Ra", the first Star, the source of all life. They reflect on our eternal position in the "Universal Periphery," or the permanent dance of the "Gravitational Forces." They tell through their music what happened "13.7 billion years later", or why there are 7 degrees that separate "Aswan from Alexandria". A result as surprising as it is revealing. Lucid, overwhelming, brilliant "7 visions" ... SUMRRÁ's seventh album is here.
Neste último album, SUMRRÁ fai o exercicio tan inspirador de coller perspectiva, e replantexarse a través da música a nosa propia existencia. Os tres músicos afincados en Compostela miran con novos ollos ó "Sapiens sapiens", ó "Espazo interior" que habita dentro de cada un de nós, ou a "Ra", o astro Rei, fonte de toda vida. Reflexionan sobre a nosa eterna posición na "Periferia Universal", ou á permanente danza das "Forzas Gravitatorias". Contan a través da súa música qué foi o que aconteceu "13.700 millóns de anos despois", ou por qué son 7 os graos que separan "Asuán de Alexandría". Un resultado tan sorprendente como revelador. "7 visións" lúcidas, arrolladoras, xeniáis... O 7 de SUMRRÁ, xa está aquí.
TRACKLIST
1. Ra 4:58 QMPGD2100019 2. Periferia universal 5:24 QMPGD2100020 3. Asuán - Alexandría 5:53 QMPGD2100021 4. As forzas gravitatorias 7:01 QMPGD2100022 5. Sapiens sapiens 7:20 QMPGD2100023 6. 13.700 millóns de anos 6:11 QMPGD2100024 7. O espazo interior 8:42 QMPGD2100025
VINYL TRACKLIST Side A 1. Ra 4:58 QMPGD2100019 2. Periferia universal 5:24 QMPGD2100020 3. Asuán - Alexandría 5:53 QMPGD2100021
Page 3 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com 4. As forzas gravitatorias 7:01 QMPGD2100022 Side B 1. Sapiens sapiens 7:20 QMPGD2100023 2. 13.700 millóns de anos 6:11 QMPGD2100024 3. O espazo interior 8:42 QMPGD2100025
Manuel Gutiérrez, piano Xacobe Martínez Antelo, double bass LAR Legido, drums
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 by Xacobe Martínez Antelo. SGAE/AIE Tracks 2 and 6 by Manuel Gutiérrez. SGAE/AIE All tracks arranged by Sumrrá
Recorded by Xurxo Pinheiro December 2nd & 3rd 2020 at Estudos Mans, Santiago de Campostela Mixed by Xurxo Pinheiro at Laboratorio Soyuz January 2021. CD Mastered by Juan Lameiro LP Mastered by Dave Cook Art: Miguel Duarte. Produced by Christopher Nolan Clermont Music BMI/SoundExchange
© ℗ 2021 - Nolan+Associates Productions LLC All Rights Reserved www.clermontmusic.com www.sumrra.com
Page 4 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com CLE047 Press jazz disco Sumrrá 21 anos 7 visións
“Xacobe Martínez, the group's double bass player, who deployed an arsenal of effects and pedals, fully exploring the instrument's possibilities. For his part, Manolo Gutiérrez raised various points of view from the piano, in a continuous swing between virtuosity and intimacy, with a familiar language without falling into clichés and set phrases, exposing inventiveness and musical ideas that perfectly suited the dialogue that he kept with his companions. Lar Legido closes the trio of musicians that make up Sumrrá, percussionist, drummer and inventor, knows how to surprise his audience and knows what the world around him sounds like, introducing a series of resources that are equally crazy and effective, taking the show and the music itself to cross the line, the middle between jazz and contemporary art, the visual, the conceptual. Without a doubt, a show of genius and creativity that reveals a world of possibilities for jazz.” Adrián Besada, 29 April 2021 https://www.masjazzdigital.com/sumrra-siete-visiones-y-mil- sensaciones/
“…The trio sought with 7 Visions “to take a lot of distance and … play astrophysics or philosophy or aeronautical engineering." And so the band went "to giant contexts, of time and space and also, to microscopic." Examples of this are themes dedicated to Ra, the sun god, and compositions that capture the "distance between the Big Bang and the formation of the Earth" 13.7 billion years with music… That feeling that time rushes and everything changes. But when Sumrrá starts playing it doesn't matter; there is still that same inner pulse that keeps us present, alive and awake.” Ana Triñáns, 28 April 2021 https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/7-visions-sumrra-romper- coa-literalidade/20210428200021120458.html
Sumrrá continues unstoppable. The Galician trio turns 21, 7 albums and an uncountable number of concerts in a panorama where formations from great soloists arise too often and with the same frequency dissolve after an album or two. The jazz scene is changing, no one doubts it, so listening to Summrá again, perceiving their complicity, their interplay, their evolution… is something that the listener appreciates.
After the inspiring 6 Mulleres (Clermont Music, 2018), Manuel Gutiérrez, Xacobe Martinez Antelo and L.A.R. Legido have gone back into the studio to record 7 Visions, a collection of existentialist themes that musically speculate about the meaning of life, past, present or future, seven visions, as the title indicates, that motivate novel rhythms and harmonies apparently contradictory, like almost everything human.
Page 5 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com With a complex and fresh sound at the same time, we can hear on this album powerful songs like “Ra”, which opens the album, speculative like “O espazo interior” or “As forzas gravitatorias”, where the piano evolves on a slow melody that in no moment sounds like a ballad because of the unconventional rhythms in which it moves and because of the intensity it reaches at its end. The abundance of groundbreaking elements (tonal, rhythmic, non-instrument instruments) is enormous. As always, Sumrrá goes a bit beyond Sumrrá. An eloquent example of what is transgressive in the album is "Aswan Alexandria 7 graos", where on an apparently classical base (an overwhelming walking bass, the broken rhythm of the drums and the accompanying chords) the piano develops a melody with the right notes, sublimating it to the essential, as Bird did, and then giving it back a hundredfold complexity.
Legido uses various sound objects in percussion. Some as unexpected and, at the same time, as powerful as wind-up toys. In the song “Sapiens Sapiens”, for example, there is an unexpected fourth member, made of plastic, that sets the rhythm of the song, dragging it to a vertiginous development where Gutiérrez's obstinacy with the left hand stands out, which brings an almost dramatic tension to the theme and that is solved with consecutive and brilliant solos.
The noise and the use of these objects that are not instruments link with this philosophy of the confused society in which we live, in those views proposed by the Galician trio in which (perhaps) it is their best album. Félix Amador, 4 May 2021 https://bekultura.com/opinion/sumrra-y-sus-visiones-de-lo-humano/
Radio interview with SUMRRA on the occasion of their release of 7 Visions. This interview is in Galician Spanish. https://www.spreaker.com/user/radioateneo/grupo-sumrra
SUMRRA "7 Visions" Clermont Music, 2021 May 12, 2021 Candido Querol http://www.b-ritmos.com/sumrra-5/
Sumrrá have been working together for 21 years and 20 years since the first CD of the Galician trio. Not only have I followed each of their albums as a trio, but also their individual projects, and thanks to those other more personal recordings it is easier to understand the evolution of the trio. This is their seventh work and even though the trio's music has recognizable elements that make it unique, what interests us precisely is to highlight the greatness of this particular work and the characteristics that make it unique and unrepeatable. Like most of his projects. Despite the fact that the compositions (which of course are 7) as always are by Xacobe Martínez Antelo (double bass) and Manuel Gutiérrez (piano), in my humble opinion the instrument that occupies the most space on this album is Lar Legido's drums . Those of you who have had the opportunity to listen to Sumrrá live are sure that like a server you have not been able to avoid closing your eyes and imagining where all the sounds that Legido provides come from. Well on this album it
Page 6 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com has still been surpassed. But let's start at the beginning, the cover shows us our three men (Xacobe's double bass) walking through a “lunar” landscape approaching the ancient civilization represented by a Hellenic head. Trips that will take us both to outer space and to the interior. The first cut Ra (M. Antelo), a minimalist cadences invite us to get closer to the beginning of everything, the Sun, which even in times of forced confinement has continued to give life to our planet, Legido is disgusted and uses its rays (strings as slings ) to convey his supernatural strength. Gutiérrez continues with his pungent minimalism and Xacobe gives security. Periferia Universal (M. Gutiérrez) the universe of the pianist is present from the first notes, as well as that sound of waves (great Legido) that Gutiérrez likes so much in his compositions. Xacobe raises the bow to be closer to the contemporary proposal. Even though he right away he begins to pick his instrument and play along with the piano with beautiful romantic touches. All the beauty of European romantic music perfectly conjugated with that jazz proposal that at first a server defined as Nordic jazz and that over time has remained in Sumrrá jazz.
Aswan Alexandria, 7 graos (M. Antelo) and the first trip arrived with a beautiful swing, the trio takes us to visit one of the first destinations of humanity, let's take the felucca in Aswan and let the current and the safe hand of Xacobe take us along the Nile, it is a theme that conveys general well-being. But halfway through the trip, a storm breaks out (Legido is responsible), a double bass solo will be the narrator of what happens, of the traveler's thoughts. As gravitational forces (M. Antelo) double bass and piano propose the jazz of Sumrrá with its doubts and reflections, but the drums gravitate in other spheres, it comes and goes looking not for confrontation but for connection and it achieves it. How? Respecting each narrative, and that is the strength of the trio, that understanding during the act of creation itself. Don't call it free, call it fraternal improvisation, they know each other so well that they can work in parallel universes without actually interrupting the creation of the other. Great song. Sapiens, sapiens (M. Antelo) Legido's “thinking” noises, Gutiérrez's two hands working in an asymmetric but functional way (single moment) the double bass approaching Mingus and all his “violence” with respect, a very appropriate title to recreate that moment in which the hominid is not only capable of using complex linguistic structures but above all for becoming social animals. Attentive again to the download of Legido in that solo. 13,700 million years after (M Gutiérrez) begins with a destructive Legido that has served to link the two themes, but soon we find again Gutiérrez's piano that continues to start from repetition as a point of growth (like any learning of the human) Legido and Antelo will be incorporated without haste, accompanying the piano in that search for experiences that allow them / us to “evolve”. This is a good moment of the pandemic to ask ourselves about this evolution not only the external one (so evident) but also the internal one, and here we find the theme that closes the album O espazo interior, (M Antelo) double bass and piano twinned in search of a unique sound, Legido appears and separates the lines, the tempo unites them again, mutually supporting each other, Legido returns to play with its strings and various objects, and the theme moves into recognizable landscapes, in experiences that help us as humans to recognize ourselves as siblings and to enjoy music as a universal “healing” tool. A perfect theme to close an album that should interest not only jazz lovers but anyone who likes to be seduced by music. For Pythagoras , 7 was the perfect number. But for some the 8 means the beginning. They scare me!
Page 7 of 8
75 Commons Road | Germantown NY | 12526 USA | +1.518.755.5089 | [email protected] www.clermontmusic.com
Page 8 of 8