{"id":6804,"date":"2024-12-21T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2024-12-21T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:08:49","slug":"blog-interview-marina-albero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/blog-interview-marina-albero\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: Marina Albero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/7kTv8cVi2UG7w9Ufm9UHj6?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"6805\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1-90x60.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-il\">Marina<\/span>, how are you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doing great, thanks for having me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations on the release of your album \u201cA Nomad Of Sound\u201d How does it feel?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m feeling very happy and quite surprised how it turned out. I\u2019m getting a great feedback from both audience and critics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite track from it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a very tough question. There are two different quintets, there is a brass band and also a duo with my daughter, which is very special to me. Maybe the most surprising track in the\u00a0\u00a0has been \u201cBali Blueset\u201d as I\u2019m used to pkay it with my quintet or trio. I even have a version for big band, but this is my very first arrangement for a brass band and I believe it captures that New Orleans energy more than the others tracks in the album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>You wrote and recorded it in New Orleans, what was your stand out memory from those sessions?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got to New Orleans in January 2024 on a self-made musical residency. My goal was creating connections and meeting musicians that would bring my music to a different level. I did a lot of writing, I went to many concerts and I enjoyed how open the community was to my music. Through this experience, I naturally met the group of folks that ended up being part of my recording. So it don\u2019t happen very organically and by the time we hit the recording studio, I found that I was surrounded by friends and that they were there to bring their own spirit to my music. The whole stay was quite magical and the recording aims to capture that moment. I didn\u2019t have big expectations about perfection or even a pre-considered set list. We didn\u2019t have much time to spend at the studio and that\u2019s why I also wanted to capture that on video. Because there is no over dubs nor post production but instead, I really wanted to have documented the spontaneity and the flow of both sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You assembled an incredible array of musicians for it, what did you learn from this experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To me, the biggest learning it\u2019s been the confirmation of how powerful is the language of music when it comes to connecting people. Before I got to New Orleans, I only knew Rex Gregory and my daughter Serena. The rest of the crew is all new friends that I made in my musical experiences in New Orleans during my stay. And what an all stars cast I gathered! I feel truly honored that these great musicians such as Yusa, Pedro Segundo, Amina Scott, and also some New Orleans born and raised rooted musicians such as Chris Cotton, and Tanio Hingle wanted to join me in this humble journey. I could\u2019ve not ask for more, what a joy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re a musician and composer originally from Barcelona, how did it all begin for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was born and raised in a musician\u2019s family. My first memories are already being on stage performing with my mom and my dad. The band was sometimes bigger, but the three of us were the core team. As a trio we toured around the world and little by little my siblings started joining as well. Nowadays, my mom has a band with my sisters and my daughter. My brother Bori\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-il\">Albero<\/span>\u00a0is a very demanded bass player, even my kids are professional musicians. So I could say that music is a family tradition,\u00a0\u00a0our family business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you listen to starting out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My parents used to listen to a lot of jazz, flamenco, world, music, as well as classical music. Since I was very young, I started my studies in the classical Conservatory and later on I started learning jazz, drums and jazz piano. Then I went to Cuba tronsrydy piano when I was 15 years old and fell in love with all the Cuban music, folkloric Afro Cuban, Son cubano, filin, bolero and also the classical composers like Lecuona o Cervantes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re a piano player which three pianists inspire you most?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really hard, choosing only three piano players, but based on my musical journey, I\u2019ll say Peruchin from Cuba, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock. There are so many more.. so unfair picking only three!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Living in New Orleans, a city steeped in history. What have you learned since you\u2019ve been there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technically, I\u2019m moving to New Orleans this January. I did spend four months in Crescent city in 2024 to get a a sense of what it means to live down here. I like the role of music in this town. It\u2019s more of a social event than it is in other places. I like the spontaneity and the encouragement when it comes to make music. I like the history they hold in their streets. I can feel it and it inspires me a lot. It also has many musicians passing by or moving here to be part of that experience and that makes it quite vibrant and an ever changing scene too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m about to go back to Cuba after almost 30 years since I lived there and so I\u2019ve been revisiting a lot of Cuban music like the great composer and songwriter Marta Valdes, who passed away recently. The more hype bands that opened to other styles like \u201cInteractivo\u201d or the traditional son by Pancho Amat. Also I\u2019ve been enjoying a lot the Afro Cuban works by Merceditas Valdes and Los Mu\u00f1equitos de Matanzas. In other styles I\u2019ve been enjoying \u201cVulture Prince\u201d by Arooj Aftab and the last works by Miguel Zenon like Golden City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you looking forward to most in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very excited to start a new life in New Orleans and see where the music takes me from here. I\u2019m also looking forward to getting back to Europe to start making my little world tour happen. I plan on being there in the summer and take my music beyond my mother land Spain, and reconnecting with Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam.. I\u2019m really hoping to become an \u201corganized\u201d Nomad Of Sound strengthening my bridges with other cities while soaking in all what New Orleans has to offer me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello\u00a0Marina, how are you?\u00a0 I\u2019m doing great, thanks for having me. Congratulations on the release of your album \u201cA Nomad Of Sound\u201d How does it feel?\u00a0 I\u2019m feeling very happy and quite surprised how it turned out. I\u2019m getting a great feedback from both audience and critics. What\u2019s your favourite track from it?\u00a0 That\u2019s a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,42,181,157,129,139,31,293,132,30,37,142,73,150,189,243,126,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-band","category-blues","category-brass","category-drums","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-latin","category-lyricist","category-music","category-piano","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-spain","category-u-s","category-vocals","category-world-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}