Las Olas de Niebla

Virtuoso guitar player and composer Eduardo Niebla has a 40-year history of genre-crossing collaboration behind him and his latest offering is no different. Las Olas de Niebla sees Niebla's flamenco-infused guitar style interwoven with chamber music and ever deeper explorations into modern jazz. Dedicated to his artist brother José, the album is intimately inspired by art, people and places dear to Niebla.

Niebla's playing is crisp and flawless throughout, demonstrating his considerable range and versatility. Although some of the raw immediacy of his earlier flamenco playing can be heard on the opening title-track, he has largely traded this for a smoother, more considered sound with rich chamber orchestrations and dense textures. While Niebla's lead guitar is to the fore for most of the album, some of the most beautiful moments surface in the composed interplay between violin, viola, cello and guitar on tracks such as ‘Virginia Renshaw’. This vibrant, colourful and melodic journey is superbly recorded, demonstrating Niebla's self-taught lyrical guitar mastery, an accomplishment of genre-defying composition and musicianship.