Bio
JOSEP-MANEL VEGA
Unortodox self-made guitarist, composer and improviser. Contemporary jazz musician in his own way.
Original productions, built from an eclectic musical background, are explored in several formats (solo, duo, trio, group and orchestra, and also playing acoustic on Spanish guitar). A personal musical language focused on improvisation, inspired by musicians such as Keith Jarret, Bill Frisell, Ralph Towner, Nguyên Lê , "high-risk" rock bands such as King Crimson or unconventional proposals such as The Bad Plus.
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Once I heart Nguyên Lê saying that a musician should be himself at the most when he plays. That is what I strive for, humbly assuming that I am nothing more than that, but not less either.
I devotedly submit myself to the ritual of the concert, hoping to experience a state of liberation through music that, according to Keith Jarret, not even the greatest musicians achieve for more than a few brief moments at a time.
What I play woud be jazz, always from an open and integrative conception of what jazz can mean. In words by Bill Frisell, a way of connecting with and transforming what surrounds us. But also progressive music, meant as open music "without rules or limits". And, moreover, contemporary: always new music, created in the present to be continuously transformed in the future.
