Sean Shibe - Lost & Found - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sean Shibe - Profesion [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/17/2023

Camino is guitarist Sean Shibe's first PENTATONE album, an introspective programme exploring French-Spanish musical borders, a pilgrimage leading from Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante défunte, Satie's Gymnopédie No.1 and Gnossiennes 1 and 3, Poulenc's Sarabande, de Falla's Miller's Dance and Homaje, pour le Tombeau de Debussy and José's Pavana triste all the way to Mompou's Canços i dansas 6 and 10, as well as his Suite compostelana. Shibe has deliberately granted Mompou a central role on this album, as his music demonstrates that melancholy, aimlessness and a whole host of other feelings are not things to be avoided or fixed or solved, but experiences to be felt deeply not with sad nostalgia, but with genuine wonder and excitement at what this means for the future. In that respect, Camino also documents Shibe's personal quest to overcome the challenges of a time dominated by Covid-19, and to ultimately see the world anew. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. Camino is the first fruit of an exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE.

Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists' personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and it's relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora. Karim Sulayman has garnered international attention as a sophisticated and versatile artist, and won a Grammy Award for Classical Solo Vocal in 2019. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received Camino (2021) and Lost & Found (2022).