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
- Gardens
- Day Danse
- My Spanish Heart
- Night Streets
- Hilltop
- Sky [*]
- Wind Danse
- Armando's Rhumba
- Prelude to el Bozo
- Bozo, Pt. 1
- Bozo, Pt. 2
- Bozo, Pt. 3
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 1
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 2
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 3
- Spanish Fantasy, Pt. 4
- Clouds [*]
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Free Music Review: In defense of the synthesizer
Hit: 5 Stars
Even the positive reviews of "My Spanish Heart" apologize for the electric piano, and it seems to be the main reason for most of the negative reviews. I can see how someone might be turned off by the comparatively harsh tone versus the warm timbre of an acoustic piano. However I think some have made the mistake of thinking that the synthesizer is nothing more than an artifact of '70s production. They're overlooking the reason Corea, Herbie Hancock, and other pianists use it, which is that they can produce a huge range of sounds that simply aren't possible on an acoustic piano.
No one seems to be debating Corea's talent as a composer, so if you like other Chick Corea albums and enjoy the electric piano as an instrument in its own right, you'll like "My Spanish Heart," too. If you can't get past the artificial sound of the synthesizer, this is probably not for you. However, I would encourage you to give it a try. If you can appreciate the relatively mellower sounds of "Light as a Feather", which also makes heavy use the synth, you should be able to stretch a little bit and get into this as well. There's so much creativity in the way Corea uses the instrument, it would be a shame to overlook it because it doesn't sound like a piano.
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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