ALMA DE NIÑO

Una obra atemporal, un paso adelante en la guitarra flamenca 

Rafael Riqueni

Diez años ha tardado el bilbaíno Yago Santos en componer esta obra conformada por 15 temas que, a la postre, vienen a confirmar que ‘Alma de niño’ es como una vasija que solo puede llenarse de melodías para la eternidad.

Manuel Martín Martín  

Un disco exquisito de guitarra flamenca tocado con una maestría increíble

LH Magazine

Figura flamenca de proyección mundial y autor de siete libros, el guitarrista bilbaíno publica su primer disco, 'Alma de niño', 15 palos resueltos con personalidad y maestría

El Correo 

¡Si eres un amante de la guitarra flamenca no debieras perderte este disco por nada del mundo!

 Rock in Bilbao

Elegancia en los acordes y un aire de espera que convidaría a entrar al cantaor y al no hacerlo, resuelve al guitarra con falsetas que magnifican la composición. Muy grande.

Biritmos

TRACK LIST 

1 -A Fali (Solea por buleria)  5.00 

2 -Calle de la Memoria (Taranta)  5.22 

3 -La Calzada de la Reina (Guajira)  4.40 

4 -Cárcel de Oro (Solea)  5.24 

5 -Por Almonaster (Interlude)  0.58 

6-Por Almonaster (Fandango de Huelva)  5.46 

7 -Generaciones (Buleria)  5.20 

8 -Tangos del Zahorí (Tangos)  4.26 

9 -Loca (Seguiriya)  4.35 

10 -Alma de Niño (Rumba)  3.54 

11 -Por Lavapiés (Tientos)  2.36 

12 -Origen (Buleria)  3.28 

13 -A mi Padre (Rondeña)  6.04 

14 -Presente (Buleria)  6.02 

15 -Tren del Olvido (Fantasia)  2.10

ALMA DE NIÑO

I began to consider the composition of Alma de Niño back in 2010, shortly after leaving my hometown, Bilbao, where I learned what love for music is from the hand of my mother, who was my first teacher. It was precisely in 2010 when I began to shape the first piece of this work, A Fali, dedicated to my second teacher Rafael Riqueni, whom I met in Madrid that same year. He had already made the first sketches of this solea por buleria in Seville a few months before, the result of intense afternoons with the guitar in which he tried to describe those magical sunsets at the dawn of the Triana bridge. It was, however, in Madrid, where I finished A Fali, the result of my relationship with my teacher, to whom I dedicate this first piece of Alma de Niño as a thank you for his advice and teachings. 

I would spend the next five years in Madrid and later in Boston, where I composed the remaining pieces that make up this album. The contact I had with jazz and world music musicians in the United States greatly enriched me personally and also substantially changed the way I viewed music. There is a lot of improvisation on this album, especially in the form and harmonization of the second guitars. Each of the pieces on this album reflect the experiences and states of mind that I have experienced in these intense years of searching. With this album I wanted to capture my personal vision of contemporary flamenco guitar, one that starts from the tradition that is based on the heritage left us by the great masters and navigates towards harmonic horizons yet to be discovered.