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"Eleven Songs and a Dance" by Alberto Vilas

This project is a little different, though not entirely, as the material I base myself on is popular music from Galicia, meaning it started from songs that already existed. However, the end result is once again creation, new pieces or pieces so renewed that it is sometimes difficult to recognize their origin despite the great respect with which they are treated.

It is a project that arises in me naturally, as a necessity. It is not a work of collecting popular music as Bartók and others did at the time, but a work of searching within myself. These songs have always lived in me, they were inside me almost without realizing it since my childhood, I listened to them and sang them for many years.

What I did now was let them out, but they came out mixed with all my experiences accumulated during my life and so I gave them new forms and coloured them. I created new pieces through a very rich melodic material that is part of our memory.

It has been for me like a debt with this music that is so natural and everyday and that is now heard less and less and that our children are practically unaware of.

"Eleven Songs and a Dance" by Santiago Barciela 

He has done this until he is able to distil them on the piano, in new and well arranged works, which in his hands sound as crystalline as lullabies, fresh, fresh from the popular spring, able to cleanse the sorrows and quench the thirst, to raise a musical edifice in which it is possible to shelter from the noise of today's galleys.

It adds preludes, interludes and codas; the most sophisticated games add vivacity to a new entity that is no longer a version. It goes through the melodies, reaching a different sensibility moving away, decidedly, from the Atlantic winds, not to forget them, but to breathe other airs that blow over other lands and other seas.