My new CD entitled ‘Noucentisme’ is almost ready and should be available in April or May 2002.
My Fair Lady’s performance schedule and a disastrous flood at Overtones Studio have held things up a little but I hope to get back to the sacred Sunday recording sessions soon.
Noucentisme - a return to the life and traditions of the Mediterranean - was a phrase coined by the Catalan writer and philosopher Eugenie d’Ors to baptise a group of up and coming young artists in the early twentieth century who were disillusioned by the poor state of art on offer in Barcelona and Paris and who drew their inspiration from the beauty and the culture of the land around them - often referred to as The Midi - ie. Catalonia, The Pyrenees, Languedoc, Roussillon, Provence and Italy. .
This album features original Mediterranean guitar music with some flamenco and North African styles along with some laid back guitar based samba, again, attempting to combine a kind of nocturnal café atmosphere with the Sun, sea, wine, olives and al-fresco ambiance of my last albums Euromance and Bistrovia.
