Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
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Artist: Chick CoreaEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-03-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Love Castle
- The Gardens
- Day Danse
- My Spanish Heart
- Night Streets
- The Hilltop
- The Sky
- Wind Danse
- Armando's Rhumba
- Prelude to el Bozo
- El Bozo, Pt. 1
- El Bozo, Pt. 2
- El Bozo, Pt. 3
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 1
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 2
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 3
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 4
- The Clouds
Free Music Notes for My Spanish Heart
Free Music Review: This album suffers from two fundamental things:
Hit: 2 Stars
If I'm going to give this album any stars at all is purely based on the extraordinary talent of Chick Corea himself. I'm somewhat young compared to most jass enthusiasts and so when I listen to music from the seventies decade I find it so extremely difficult to understand exactly what the artists were thinking and trying to accomplish.
So here's my two fundamental problems:
1. Too synthesized. You could say this about all of the fusion genre, but as jazz has evolved I find it so interesting that after all these years we've, for the most part, all returned to the universal desire to hear it played accoustically and with the authentic raw sound with which it was played in its conception. Even in electronica music or ambient, there is a push to use mostly organic sounds, or make any synthezation sound as real as possible. The synthization on this cd is so godawful at times that at certain moments it could literally pass for a soundtrack to a pornographic film. The sounds used during certain songs actually make some of the so called 'andalusian undertones' sound asian. Ultimately I feel the best tracks to be the one's where there was most restraint from any synthesizing.
2. The idea of the album itself is all wrong. So many great jazz artists seemed to have a weird inclination to try and do an album project linked with Spain. Granted, there is a lot of great art produced from spain such as Salvador Dali, Manuel de Falla, Andres Segovia, but by the time mainstream jazz artists of the day were entering into Spain, it was a country coming off the oppression and chauvinism of 75 years of dictatorship of General Franco. So Corea goes to Spain, gathers inspiration, says he's returning back to his latin roots, and then calls the album 'My Spanish Heart' (a name which is practically cliche at this point). Had Correa truly wanted to go back to his 'latin roots' then he should have gone to the caribean, where the music of the slaveworkers traded by the spanish and protuguese gave way to the salsa, and rhumba rhythms we know today. Or better yet, he could've gone straight to Africa.
Like I said, this review comes from an opinion of a twenty something jazz enthusiast. I wonder how this album was recieved at the time it was released. Maybe the biggest problem with this album then is the fact that its sound is not timeless, but rather extremely dated to the seventies decade.
My Spanish Heart Poster
Pianist Chick Corea is best known for his fusion groups Return to Forever and Chick Corea's Elektrik Band, but his deep background is in the salsa he played with Mongo Santamaria in his introduction to the scene, and his interest in the lyrical melodic statements of Spanish-American music is obvious throughout his career. This ambitious program takes on a number of aspects of what Corea clearly sees as a key part of his cultural heritage. The 17-piece orchestra that provides the central context here is meant to be reminiscent of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration on Sketches of Spain and Charles Mingus's exploration of similar melodic themes on Tijuana Moods. --John SwensonJazz Music CDs
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