Search - Miguel Corella, Nokuthula Ngwenyama :: CHE!: A Musical Biography

EDI is proud to announce the much anticipated release of CHE!: A Musical Biography, Suite for Viola and Guitar. Composer Miguel Corella explains his inspiration: CHE!: A Musical Biography is not a political statement. It is my childhood. It is a memory, a generation lost in place and time but coming back full-circle. Growing up in Spain I was exposed to freestyle jazz of the 60's, when musicians went on what seemed to be a historic journey with sound and memory ...flamenco, Coltrane, Ginsberg, and Franco all entered the mix. When I moved to Ecuador in the 80's I saw that the influences that profoundly moved me as a child in Spain were strongly enhanced by the flavor of the South American Afro-Indian influence. I don't know what kind of music this is, but it is mine as seen through the many lives and places of CHE! Corella's free-style of composition, combined with a complete lack of inhibition, make this potpourri of lush melody, pulsating rhythm, and virtuosity one for the hipsters. Even more intriguing is his innovative approach. He keeps things acoustic while exploiting daring and percussive elements not commonly associated with either instrument. Corella's aim is to draw the listener in to the fire, intimacy, and spontaneity of each instrument's expression: My mother played the viola, and in Spain everyone knows the guitar. That combination of sound is my youth, my passion, and I wanted to share its depth and freedom in a larger creative statement.