Créole Renaissance, by ARUÁN ORTIZ PIANO SOLO

Créole Renaissance

by ARUÁN ORTIZ PIANO SOLO

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1.	L'Etudiant noir 06:20	info	buy track
2.	Seven Aprils in Paris (and A Sophisticated Lady) 07:03	info	buy track
3.	Légitime Défense 03:03	info	buy track
4.	From the Distance of my Freedom 07:45	info	buy track
5.	Première Miniature (Créole Renaissance) 02:17	info	buy track
6.	The Great Camouflage 06:49	info	buy track
7.	Deuxième Miniature (Dancing) 02:38	info	buy track
8.	We Belong to These Who Say No to Darkness 04:43	info	buy track
9.	The Haberdasher 05:23	info	buy track
10.	Lo Que Yo Quiero es Chan Chan 06:07	info	buy track

about

Intakt CD 441

Aruán Ortiz, celebrated piano cubist, distinguished jazz improviser, award-winning composer and idiosyncratic stylist, presents Créole Renaissance, his second solo piano album on Intakt Records which comes eight years after Cub(an)ism. "Ortiz is renowned for his prodigious technique, and multiple lineages converge in his hands, from Schoenberg, Messiaen, and Ligeti to Bebo Valdés, Don Pullen, and Cecil Taylor", writes Brent Hayes Edwards and adds "Aruán Ortiz’s stunning pianistic reflections on the implications of a Créole Renaissance start here, placing the music within a long history of collective Black study. Ortiz explains that he was inspired above all by the ways Négritude poets such as Aimé and Suzanne Césaire and René Ménil deployed 'surrealist techniques to shape a new kind of narrative of Afro-diasporic life and history in the Caribbean.' If Ortiz’s music is adamantly innovative and forward-looking, in other words, it reminds us of its deep roots in traditions of Black experimentation." Créole Renaissance combines intellectual depth, emotionality and creativity to create a fascinating musical statement.

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credits

released August 29, 2025

Aruán Ortiz: Piano

All compositions written by Aruán Ortiz, except "Lo que yo quiero es Chan Chan", based on a song by Francisco Repilado (Compay Segundo), and "Seven Aprils in Paris (and A Sophisticated Lady)", based on a song by Duke Ellington, arranged by Aruán Ortiz. Recorded on December 17 and 18, 2024, at Artesuono Recording Studios, Cavalicco, Italy, by Stefano Amerio. Mixed and mastered in April 2025 at Artesuono Recording Studios, Cavalicco, Italy, by Stefano Amerio. Cover art: Julio Girona (Manzanillo, Cuba). Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Brent Hayes Edwards. Photo: Mario Sabbatani. Produced by Aruán Ortiz and Intakt Records. Executive producer: Florian Keller. Published by Intakt Records, P. O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch