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For Jaume Vilaseca Quartet, jazz is not a style, it is a dogma. It's something totally alive, pure communication, an open-minded and committed approach to music and improvisation.
On his fourth cd, the Jaume Vilaseca Quartet takes on an unusual and unexpected repertoire. The progressive rock band Genesis, from their 1970 album "Tresspass" to 1974's "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", provides the group with a perpetual source of ideas, creativity, risk... In his recording, the music is stripped of the flamboyance and ornateness associated with the years in wich it was created, and in the absence of voices or words, it is resurrected with its full essence and magic. Genesis is reborn yet again with a new voice, with a new language, with rhythms and colours based on flamenco, african, latin and brazilian roots.
“A real surprise. Many of the tunes he reworks are, in my opinion, definitive masterpieces, which I never imagined could sound so well in jazz mode, and in some cases with latin rhythms or even rhythms close in flamenco. Those of us whose heart is divided between Genesis' jazz and rock are in luck" (Tomajazz)
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