Angelica Sanchez - Sparkle Beings (2022) [Official Digital Download]

There are individuals in everybody’s life who stimulate the mind and imagination. If one is lucky enough, these special inspirations needn’t be historical figures. They can be friends and collaborators who can be met any day. Pianist/composer Angelica Sanchez holds many such stimulating figures close by and on her new recording, Sparkle Beings, she showcases potent examples of inspiration being channeled through remarkable people, past or contemporary.

Sanchez has been a stellar piano stylist and musical conceptualist in the New York scene for some time. She felt destined to get to New York even as a talented teenager from Arizona, telling the instructors and fellow students at the Ed Schuller led Sandpoint Music Camp in Idaho that she intended to move to the City. She did so the next year.

It was at Sandpoint that Sanchez met the great drummer, Billy Hart. Though Hart was one of the first masters that she interacted with, it has taken until now for Sanchez to invite Hart to record with her. Sanchez also invited her longtime friend and collaborator, bassist Michael Formanek, to take part. Long associations with both bandmates provide the knowledge of what they can do for the music but, also, the exciting feeling of not knowing where the music will go because of their creativity in the moment.

TRACKLIST

1. Angelica Sanchez - A Fungus Amungus
2. Angelica Sanchez - Generational Bonds
3. Angelica Sanchez - With (Exit)
4. Angelica Sanchez - Phantasmic Friend
5. Angelica Sanchez - Preludio a un Preludio
6. Angelica Sanchez - Sparkle Beings
7. Angelica Sanchez - Before Sleep / Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches Over Her



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