Odisea

Odisea is an odyssey, a voyage to distant shores; it is also an exploration inward. Andreas Arnold's third album, Odisea, charts his decade-long journey from jazz to flamenco and back, a full circle where he has found not only his own unique style of flamenco fusion and intersections -- but also a kind of musical origin. I think this album is sort of a homecoming for me, Arnold said. Back to a looser and improvised approach, while incorporating many things that I've learned during my travels across the vast seas of flamenco. Back to jazz elements, even back to classical elements that are rooted in my childhood. Like any epic, the protagonist arrives where he started, yet changed and transformed. His last album, Ojos Cerrados, released in 2016 was tightly composed and arranged, a display of Arnold's dexterity as both an instrumentalist and composer. If the guitar provides the monologue in many typical flamenco guitar albums, then Odisea is Arnold's push for a dialogue with artists he admires: Petros Klampanis from Greece on double bass, and percussionist Miguel Hiroshi born in Japan but raised in Granada, Spain. Andreas Arnold has participated in numerous productions as an instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and producer, touring on five continents. He studied jazz guitar at the conservatory of Amsterdam and later in NYC with Mike Stern, John Abercrombie and Wayne Krantz before entering a period of complete dedication to the art of flamenco guitar. He is currently the musical director for internationally renowned Jordanian singer Farah Siraj as well as for the New York Flamenco Jazz Project. Arnold has released three albums of original electric and acoustic music under his name. This is his fourth..