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Today sees the release of Maestro Espada, the debut album by the duo of the same name and one of the most interesting projects on the music scene in our country.
Maestro Espada are two voices that grew up singing together and now reunite in the accent and imagery of their native orchard, hitting the nail on the head with a debut album produced by Raül Refree (Rosalía, Lee Renaldo) that skillfully moves from noise to intimacy and from the past to the future; from ancient quartets sustained by memory and oral tradition, to their own verses and surprising soundscapes created in recording sessions over 3 years.
The brothers Alejandro and Víctor Hernández illuminate in Maestro Espada an exciting collage of delicate electronic craftsmanship and eminent pop sensibility. The Murcian duo's is a unique game of contrasts that allows an evident subversive vocation to be combined with astonishing naturalness and a respect that sometimes becomes reverential. An album with balances worthy of only a few and crowned by career-defining tracks, such as Granaíco.
Granaíco is a yearning for return and departure. The place we come from and that we leave; a territory located in memory but also in imagination, to which we all return dreamily or actually, even knowing that it is no longer the place it was, just as we are not either. "The further I move away from you, the more I'd like to stay, and if I fall asleep by your side today, I dream of another place," says the chorus.
The album, which besides Granaíco also features the already released Mayos, Lirio, and La despedía, has meticulously crafted artwork by designer Albert Romagosa in its vinyl version.
On September 10, the band offered a showcase on the stage of the exclusive Nave Oporto in Carabanchel, where they performed some songs from the album for an audience made up of journalists, well-known faces from all arts, and many musicians.
The band will soon announce the dates of their upcoming tour, which already includes performances at the Fiestas del Pilar.
About Maestro Espada
Brothers Alejandro and Víctor Hernández immerse us in an exciting world of castanets and samplers, where distortion is a transformative element and the naturalistic simplicity of huertana expression finds a new and fascinating dimension, exploring one of Spain's most ignored musical traditions while simultaneously illuminating one of the most interesting projects of recent years with two voices.
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