Juan Hitters: noviembre 2014

viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2014

El Ojo y el Diamante for Sans Parapluie

Juan has recently been shooting artist Lucas Rise's new project, El Ojo y el Diamante, in Valeria del Mar, a small town near the sea 400 km south of Buenos Aires. This amazing artist, creator of Sans Parapluie and RiseMod, has founded an art gallery together with his family.

David Virelles in Brooklyn Heights

While in NYC Juan made a photo shoot in Brooklyn Heights of the Cuban musician David Virelles. These pictures were included in the booklet of his recently released solo album on ECM Records, Mbókò, which has received wonderful reviews already.

What's on the CD player this week

New film about Architect César Pelli

What's on the CD player this week

"Sound City": real to reel. Dave Grohl has put together many wonderful musicians and directed a documentary film called Sound City. The movie is about the sheer joy of playing and recording plain (or not so plain) rock music starring Chris Goss, Joshua Homme, Rupert Neve, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin and Paul Mc Cartney to name just a few. The soundtrack is a true marvel, similar in a way to Slash's first solo album. It has been on steady rotation since I came back from Sydney.

Keith Jarrett at Teatro Colon

Tonight Keith Jarrett is improvising on the piano at Teatro Colon. It has been nearly three decades since I listened to "The Köln Concert" for the first time. The experience was revealing. It is probably one of the albums I have enjoyed the most. I clearly remember once driving with friends along a deserted road someplace in Uruguay while listening to Keith play the old Bösendorfer in Cologne. The compact cassette sounded awful, but I could do nothing but wonder: listening to this beautiful music recorded many years ago, in a far away city, while driving through this lonely country, was magic! Well, life has been good to me, and gave me the opportunity of contributing to ECM on Keith Jarrett's "Testament" album cover, a recording of two improvised concerts in Paris and London. This was a couple of years ago. Tonight I will be listening to the man himself, no state of the art recording or crappy cassette, just an incredible musician playing the piano. You bet I am looking forward to this experience.