Sean Shibe - Camino (2021) [Hi-Res]

Introspective exploration of French-Spanish musical borders. Camino is guitarist Sean Shibe’s first Pentatone album, an introspective programme exploring French-Spanish musical borders, a pilgrimage leading from Ravel’s Pavane pour une Infante défunte, Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1 and Gnossiennes No. 1 and No. 3, Poulenc’s Sarabande, De Falla’s Miller’s Dance and Homaje pour le Tombeau de Debussy and José’s Pavana triste all the way to Mompou’s Cançons i dansas No. 6 and No. 10, as well as his Suite compostelana.

Shibe has deliberately granted Mompou a central role on this album, as his music demonstrates that melancholy, aimlessness and a whole host of other feelings are not things to be avoided or fixed or solved, but experiences to be felt deeply: not with sad nostalgia, but with genuine wonder and excitement at what this means for the future. © Pentatone

Details of original recording : Recorded in August and November 2020 at Crichton Church (Scotland)