HETERODOXIA

25 YEARS OF MUSIC

• GORKA HERMOSA, accordion | SILVIA MÁRQUEZ CHULILLA, harpsichord

• FAK RECORDS FAKE245 2013 | DL SA-606-2013

On the pretext of celebrating the 25th anniversary of his first concert, the accordionist Gorka Hermosa brings together here recordings not included on his previous CDs.

Hard to classify, the album contains a wide range of compositions that perfectly portray the accordionist's heterodox musical personality, straddling contemporary music, jazz and roots music (tango, folk, flamenco...).

Silvia Márquez joins him on this occasion for three duets with Gorka, taken from their project Fantangueando: Danza del Molinero by Manuel de Falla, Fantango by Jukka Tiensuu and A tu querer lo comparo, by the Zaragoza-born composer Miguel Ángel Remiro.

01. Gorka Hermosa: Girondeando

02. Germán Díaz: Pechotango

03. Jukka Tiensuu: Fantango (version for harpsichord and accordion) *

04. Baldo Martínez: De Onte pra Mañán

05. Gorka Hermosa: Euskadi-Buenos Aires 04

06. Gorka Hermosa: Galliano en Santiago

07. Petri Makkonen: The Flight Beyond the Time

08. José Luis Montón: Fiesta

09. Gorka Hermosa: Gernika, 26:4:1937

10. Manuel de Falla: Danza del Molinero (arrangement: G. Hermosa) *

11. Gorka Hermosa: Ekía

12. Traditional / Gorka Hermosa: Entradilla de Segovia

13. Ángel Cabral: La Foule

14. Miguel Ángel Remiro: A tu querer lo comparo (version for harpsichord and accordion) *

15. José Manuel Fernández: Tocata

16. Gorka Hermosa: Suaren Zortzikoa

17. J. S. Bach / José Luis Montón / Gorka Hermosa: Bach por Bulerías *

Guest appearances | Silvia Márquez, harpsichord.

"Successful marriages | The programme presented an original and bizarre combination [...]; we could see that a great deal of work had gone into it. The instrumental marriage seemed extraordinarily unusual, but it worked, all thanks to two fine musicians who took a risk."

Juan Carlos Galtier | HERALDO DE ARAGÓN

On the pretext of celebrating the 25th anniversary of his first concert, Gorka Hermosa brings together on this album recordings not included on his previous CDs, which until now had either gone unpublished or been scattered as individual tracks across different albums. One example is his first recording, published 13 years ago on the compilation album of prizewinning artists of Juventudes Musicales de España.

The album contains highly varied recordings, which have little or nothing to do with one another, but which perfectly portray the personality of this heterodox artist, in formations such as: Fantangueando (a contemporary music duo he has formed with the harpsichordist Silvia Márquez since 2008), Ibêricum (a fusion group made up of diverse Iberian artists), groups formed to take the project Tangosophy to the stage (the duo with Germán Díaz, G. H. Trio or Diaspora), the duo Flamenco Etxea (with the flamenco guitarist José Luis Montón), the duo with Raquel Martín, and solo recordings of contemporary music.

(1) demo of the project Raquel Martín & Gorka Hermosa (Santander, 2012).

(2, 11, 13) taken from the demo recording of Germán Díaz & Gorka Hermosa (Ponferrada, 2004).

(4) taken from the Ibêricum concert in Zumarraga (Zumarraga, 2008).

(5, 12, 16) recorded for the CD Thangosophy and not included on it (Ponferrada, 2006).

(3, 10, 14) taken from the Fantangueando demo recording (Granada, 2010).

(6) taken from the Gorka Hermosa trío concert in Gijón (Gijón, 2008).

(9) taken from the CD "Urretxuko Musikak" (Santander, 2007).

(7) taken from the CD "JME 2000". Gorka Hermosa's first recording (Altea, 2000).

(15) recording made for the composer (Santander, 2011).

(17) taken from the "Flamenco Etxea" demo recording (Santander, 2007).