Diego Pinera - Odd Wisdom

ACT Music

£14.51

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: ACT9920-2
Barcode: 0614427992024
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Genre: Jazz

 Diego Pinera is a unique figure taking music in new directions by juxtaposing the polyrhythmic freedom of jazz with other metric systems. As he says, “I studied music in the places where it came from.” He started playing drums as a four-year old in Montevideo and his student years were spent in Havana, Boston (Berklee) and Leipzig. Now, based in Berlin since 2003, he has continued to widen his musical
horizons, immersing himself in the ‘odd’ meters of the title through extensive work with Berlin-based musicians from Greece and Bulgaria.
 The word ‘wisdom’ here refers not just to Pinera’s accretion of wide knowledge and consummate skill but also to mystery and alchemy: the track ‘Conversation With Myself’ is a hushed, concentrated masterpiece. His ear for fresh colours and timbres is astonishing.
 His ACT debut ‘Despertando’ was described as a “treat for the ear” and ‘Odd Wisdom’ is a kaleidoscope of sonic inventiveness. ‘Mi Cosmos’, for example, has the rasping sound of a snare over the drum-head and ‘Robotic Night’ features a drum synth pad, played live in the studio.
 Pinera gathered a dream team from the New York top flight together for just one day at the Trading 8s studio in New Jersey: Donny McCaslin, Ben Monder and Scott Colley have already made their mark in countless other contexts and they are on spellbinding form here.
 ‘Odd Wisdom’ is a significant and personal album as Pinera says, “It brings together all of the sounds and rhythms that I have been working on for the past decade.” And yet ‘Odd Wisdom’ also has a wonderful lightness about it. In these
truly capable hands, complex music has a magical fluidity, freedom and flow. Pinera has acquired his wisdom by being watchful - as his evocative lyric for ’Space’ expresses it: “Al mirar arriba, más allá, en el sol” (I understood by looking up, beyond, into the sun).

Tracklisting:
Clave Tune
Domingo
Conversation With Myself
Robotic Night
Mi Cosmos
Space
Away
De Madrugada
Easter in Puglia
Blue Monk