Grégoire Maret & Edmar Castañeda - Harp Vs Harp (CD)

Release Date: 06/14/19You'll rarely find a more harmonious pairing.' Nate Chinen, NPR Music / WBGOHarmonica player Grégoire Maret, born in Geneva in Switzerland and harpist Edmar Castañeda from Bogota in Colombia are two remarkable musicians. The strong musical affinity between them that comes across so vividly in 'Harp vs. Harp' is no accident, not least because their backstories are so uncannily similar. Each of them came from his respective country as a callow teenager, and settled in New York. They have not merely survived, each individually, in the often unforgiving creative cauldron of New York's musical life; each has established a reputation at the absolute top of the game, working on a regular, long-term basis with the best in the business. By the time Maret and Castañeda decided to record, they had already done several performances as a duo, so the choices of repertoire fell into place easily. There are themes running through the album. Three of the eight tracks, 'Blueseri