Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar.
In that respect, Camino also documents Shibe’s personal quest to overcome the challenges of a time dominated by Covid-19, and to ultimately see the world anew. Shibe has deliberately granted Mompou a central role on this album, as his music demonstrates that melancholy, aimlessness and a whole host of other feelings are not things to be avoided or fixed or solved, but experiences to be felt deeply: not with sad nostalgia, but with genuine wonder and excitement at what this means for the future.
This requires a virtuoso capable of both sonic opulence and impalpable atmospheres. The guitar, and with it its ancestors the lute or theorbo, wove learned textures around the voice, creating atmospheres that were sometimes lunar and sometimes popular (that's the paradox of this instrument), doing justice to the beauty of the texts set to music. But this is to forget that other strings - plucked strings this time - reigned majestically in the aristocratic salons. When we think of melody, the sounds of the piano immediately spring to mind.