I'm going to take advantage of this sunday with the sunny morning while I listen Resistance is Futile* and expire with my commitment, explaining the reasons of the new evolutions of the melodies and guitar parts.
The musicians in Flowersongs has changed several times from his birth up to our current formation, and every change has needed a adaptation the songs to the new format. Curiously we have never tried to repeat an instrument.
When everything began I had an important harmonic labor while the sax was playing the melodies. We were playing with a lot of voicing and harmony parts in guitar and sax, but my work out of my solos was principally harmonic. When we decide the incorporation of a pianist in the band I was looking for a very full sound harmonically while I was playing the melodies. I didn't resigned to my work of accompanist, since the pianist was interpreting many melodies in the set.
In our third evolution, just like trio, everything changed: My sound was basically a soloist, but I knew that Córdoba could give very much supporting the armonies and the force that we needed, and really it has worked good. But I believe that the music has to be in constant evolution. I need always a new change, a new step, a new road for the growth.
If you listen the Wayne Shorter's Footprints Live you are listening his most famous tunes, but they sound totally new. That's evolucion, man! The real life! I needed something new in the interpretation of our melodies and tunes, this new step that I have mentioned already. I have wanted to add something of Ahmal Hamal's style in the melodies, in and out, with all these harmonic tension and something much "ordered", but without losing the free-jazz concept.
In the next days you will have good and new news of the project Flowersongs. All the pieces of this complicated puzzle seem to be fitting. We are now in Barcelona again, working to enter in studio these next weeks. We will keep you informed. Hugs, my little avant-garde friends!
Ernest Margi.
*Steve Coleman and Five Elements. A album highly recommend.
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