Trio Altisent with Joan Albert Amargos

 

First of a few posts about this remarkably talented composer and keyboardist from Barcelona. He's  discogged here:

Catalan keyboardist and clarinet player, b. Barcelona, 1950. Also classical composer.

Most importantly he crafted some really amazing music with his first group Musica Urbana, which I've loved dearly all my life, unfortunately there were only 3 releases with them from 1976 to 1978. First album being the best with the most intensely innovative work.  Those compositions are such stunning mixes of jazz, classical, and fusion that they always take my breath away. Every month it's worth pulling them out and revisiting them.  Note that Carlos Benavent was bassist in there too, featured previously here on the blog.

As sometimes happens but quite rarely nowadays, there is no entry for this Trio on discogs. Instead it appears as bonus material on a Musica Urbana compilation. It's the kind of thing I absolutely adore with the mix of chamber classical and more elevated compositional elements: this is definitely not Chopin. Note that the guitarist is Feliu Altisent with whom he released the wonderful Feliu and Joan album, which I'll put up next. 

Consider the first track, La Formatgera:

However everything on here is worth hearing, everything.