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Ángel Ontalva
"Persian Courtyard"
Released: 2024
Label: OctoberXart Records (Spain)

Persian Courtyard

Track list:

  1. The dragon is asleep (2:37)
  2. Door is closed, a window is open (3:06)
  3. Fable of the fox and the sheep (4:01)
  4. Between two worlds (5:03)
  5. A decadent ballroom (3:07)
  6. Looking back (4:09)
  7. That bloody house (3:15)
  8. Beyond the fiery river (3:24)
  9. Satellites (3:41)
  10. Una para el camino (2:32)
  11. In my dreams, dreams (2:43)

Line-up:

  • Ángel Ontalva : guitar, bass, M-Tron Pro keyboards
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  • Anna Anshakova : viola
  • Avelino Saavedra : drums, percussion
  • Víctor Rodríguez : virtual cello on Dragon


Inspirada en una estancia de un edificio histórico de Astracán, el polifacético guitarrista y compositor Ángel Ontalva nos trae nuevo trabajo, ofreciéndonos como novedad el protagonismo compositivo del Mellotron en lugar de la guitarra y el protagonismo musical de la viola interpretada por Anna Anshakov. No faltan los arreglos de cuerda y la sección rítmica de Avelino Saavedra. Un álbum lleno de atmosferas misteriosas, improvisadoras, experimentales oníricas, jazzísticas y épica como en el tema "Between two worlds" y que a bien seguro va a hacer las delicias de los fan del Mellotron.

(Escrito por Juan Mellado)



Inspired by a room in a historic building in Astrakhan, the versatile guitarist and composer Angel Ontalva brings us a new work, offering as a novelty the compositional protagonism of the Mellotron instead of the guitar and the musical protagonism of the viola played by Anna Anshakov. There are string arrangements and the rhythm section by Avelino Saavedra. An album full of mysterious atmospheres, improvisational, experimental, dreamlike, jazzy and epic as in the theme "Between two worlds" and that will surely delight the Mellotron fans.

(Written by Juan Mellado)





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