SUMRRA - 7 Visions

Después de 6 álbumes, el penúltimo inspirándose en las ciudades donde han actuado y el último en mujeres que han desafiado al mundo, SUMRRÁ da un paso atrás durante esta pandemia mirando hacia adentro, preguntándose sobre el tiempo, el tiempo inmenso, el tiempo universal, el tiempo estelar. Un segundo o 13.700 millones de años. Y la distancia: distancias reales aumentadas por las restricciones pandémicas que dan perspectiva. Perspectiva sobre quiénes somos, qué estamos haciendo, por qué y por cuánto tiempo, como individuos y como especie. SUMRRÁ se inspira en Visiones que inspiran estados de ánimo, estados mentales, conceptos radicales y de alegría, juego y libertad sin prejuicios.

 SUMRRÁ - 3 músicos que han tocado juntos durante más de 20 años. Su familiaridad aporta una cohesión que combina la perspectiva individual en una armonía comprensiva. Desde Galicia, en el noroeste de España, su música mira hacia la composición y la improvisación contemporáneas. La instrumentación es el clásico trío de jazz: piano - Manuel Gutiérrez Iglesias; contrabajo - Xacobe Martinez Antelo; y batería - LAR Legido. Tres virtuosos que resuenan orgánicamente. Este séptimo album grabado en su ciudad natal, Santiago de Compostela, ha permitido que las complejas emociones de nuestro confinamiento pandémico se fundan en este ciclo de música impactante y poderosa. 

After two albums - one taking inspiration from cities where they have performed and a second from women who have challenged the world - SUMRRÁ step back during this pandemic looking inward - wondering about Time - Huge time - Universal time - Stellar time. One second or 13.700 million years. And Distance - real distances heightened by pandemic restrictions that give perspective. Perspective on who we are, what we are doing, why, and for how long - as individuals and as a species. SUMRRÁ draw inspiration from Visions that inspire moods, mental states, radical concepts, and from joy, play, and freedom without prejudice.

SUMRRÁ - 3 musicians who have played together for 20 years. Their familiarity brings a cohesion that blends individual perspective into a sympathetic harmony. From Galicia in the northwest of Spain their music looks to contemporary composition and improvisation. The instrumentation is the classic jazz trio: piano - Manuel Gutierrez Iglesias; bass - Xacobe Martinez Antelo; and drums - LAR Legido. Virtuosos they resonate organically. Recorded in their hometown, Santiago de Campostela, the complex emotions of our pandemic confinement merge in this cycle of striking and powerful music.

PRESS REVIEWS OF SUMRRA’s 7 VISIONS

"...absolutely great!" writes Mattie Poels in musicframes.nl https://bit.ly/3F0BkQA

“Xacobe Martínez, the group's double bass player, who deployed an arsenal of effects and pedals, fully exploring the instrument's possibilities. For his part, Manolo Gutiérrez raised various points of view from the piano, in a continuous swing between virtuosity and intimacy, with a familiar language without falling into clichés and set phrases, exposing inventiveness and musical ideas that perfectly suited the dialogue that he kept with his companions. Lar Legido closes the trio of musicians that make up Sumrrá, percussionist, drummer and inventor, knows how to surprise his audience and knows what the world around him sounds like, introducing a series of resources that are equally crazy and effective, taking the show and the music itself to cross the line, the middle between jazz and contemporary art, the visual, the conceptual. Without a doubt, a show of genius and creativity that reveals a world of possibilities for jazz.”

Adrián Besada, 29 April 2021 https://www.masjazzdigital.com/sumrra-siete-visiones-y-mil-sensaciones/

“…The trio sought with 7 Visions “to take a lot of distance and … play astrophysics or philosophy or aeronautical engineering." And so the band went "to giant contexts, of time and space and also, to microscopic." Examples of this are themes dedicated to Ra, the sun god, and compositions that capture the "distance between the Big Bang and the formation of the Earth" 13.7 billion years with music… That feeling that time rushes and everything changes. But when Sumrrá starts playing it doesn't matter; there is still that same inner pulse that keeps us present, alive and awake.”

Ana Triñáns, 28 April 2021 https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/7-visions-sumrra-romper-coa-literalidade/20210428200021120458.html

7 Visions, a collection of existentialist themes that musically speculate about the meaning of life, past, present or future, seven visions, as the title indicates, that motivate novel rhythms and harmonies apparently contradictory, like almost everything human. With a complex and fresh sound at the same time, we can hear on this album powerful songs like “Ra”, which opens the album, speculative like “O espazo interior” or “As forzas gravitatorias”, where the piano evolves on a slow melody that in no moment sounds like a ballad because of the unconventional rhythms in which it moves and because of the intensity it reaches at its end. The abundance of groundbreaking elements (tonal, rhythmic, non-instrument instruments) is enormous. As always, Sumrrá goes a bit beyond Sumrrá.

Félix Amador, 4 May 2021 https://bekultura.com/opinion/sumrra-y-sus-visiones-de-lo-humano/