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El Templo de las Ideas

by Pagliuca-Mena sexteto

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Music Without Labels What a delight to be introduced to such fine jazz music. Grab a glass of wine, coffee or whatever is your fancy, slip a good pair of headphones on and enjoy the journey. I will certainly be playing a few tracks over the coming weeks on both my Music Without labels radio shows on Soulpower-radio.com and totallywiredradio.com Favorite track: Aura.
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Geisa Fernandes (...) It is, at the same time, a celebration of the exuberant Latin identity in its diversity, and an invitation to introspection, to the act of listening, of paying attention to the multiple details of this impeccable production. Those who accept the challenge are treated to an almost mystical experience of transcendence. An affective journey through the left behind but never forgotten hometown Maracaibo (...). Complete review here: tinyurl.com/2t83kcas

Favorite track: Caribay y las cinco Águilas Blancas.
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"The Pagliuca-Mena Sextet’s debut album is incredible – and that is not a word I often use. They are one of the most exciting bands I have heard for a long time and the delivery of this music is truly exceptional"
-Sammy Stein
International Editor for Jazz Journalist Association
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On December 2017 was the launch "El Templo de las Ideas" ("The Temple of the Ideas"), the first studio album by the Pagliuca-Mena brothers.

Pagliuca-Mena sextet is a project led by brothers Silvano (piano) and Angelo (drums); both young musicians from Maracaibo, Venezuela, but with a noteworthy trajectory in their city, as well as nationally and internationally for their work as live and studio session musicians.

The album was completely produced by the Pagliuca-Mena brothers themselves at their studio, "El Cuartico", in the city of Maracaibo between the years 2016 and 2017. It also features the participation of six other great young musicians from Venezuela: Albert Mora (bass), Luis Alfredo "Luki" Zambrano (trumpet), Eduardo Vega (tenor saxophone), Francisco Arteaga de Pool (tenor saxophone), Nelson Pacheco (trombone) and Gregory Boza (trombone).

Together with the Pagliuca-Mena brothers, they explore the borderlines between the Venezuelan, Latin, Jazz and Classical music in six of Silv's original compositions: "Ahora o Nunca" ("Now or Never"), a tune that with its sudden changes from salsa to swing reminds us that life is just once. "Yara", in Afro-Venezuelan style, takes us on an excursion through the tropical jungle and coast while singing an antiphony to a goddess of the Venezuelan syncretic religion, also knows as María Lionza. "Caribay y las Cinco Águilas Blancas" ("Caribay and the five White Eagles"), a waltz that pretends to recreate an ancestral Andean myth about the formation of the high mountains or peaks of the Venezuelan Andes. "Aura", a tune in 12-bar blues form, full of swing but with Venezuelan seal. "Maracaibo Mía" ("Maracaibo of mine"), in gaita de furro rhythm, is a tune that wants to give us a sight of the nowadays Maracaibo. And finally, "Guasa Influenciada" ("Influenced Guasa"), a tune that reinterprets a Venezuelan folk rhythm in 5 beats called guasa or merengue venezolano, but under the influence of the skeptic style of the Pagliuca-Mena brothers.

In Silv's words "'El Templo de las Ideas' is a very reflective album. It's a lot about searching, searching for our language, for our identity. It's a sacred time-and-space. The Album is the Temple itself, where the Ideas are standing.".

credits

released December 4, 2017

Eduardo Vega
(tenor saxophone on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 5)
Francisco Arteaga De Pool
(tenor saxophone on tracks 4 and 6)
Luis Alfredo Zambrano
(trumpet on all tracks)
Nelson Pacheco
(trombone on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 5)
Gregory Boza
(Trombone on tracks 4 and 6)
Silvano Pagliuca-Mena
(piano on all tracks)
Albert Mora
(bass on all tracks)
Angelo Pagliuca-Mena
(drums on all tracks)


All themes composed by Silvano Pagliuca-Mena


Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the Pagliuca-Mena brothers at "El Cuartico" Studio, Maracaibo (Venezuela) between the years 2016 and 2017




For more information: www.PagliucaMenaMusic.com


Ghapic design:Jesús "Ciù" Servigna

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Pagliuca-Mena Music is the musical journey where the Pagliuca-Mena brothers are involved: Silvano (piano, guitar, double bass) and Angelo (drums, percussions)


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