Blue Avenida Lorenzo Sanchez Band

• 1I Should Be Glad03:52
• 2I Need Your Love03:28
• 3¡ Huye !04:19
• 4True Love04:32
• 5Humos04:42
• 6Mundo Oscuro03:54
• 7Taj04:08
• 8Naciste05:20
• 9Jeff Is Gone05:41
• Total Runtime39:56

Info for Blue Avenida

During lockdown, I composed about twenty tracks, probably a need to be active while being prevented from being so, like many artists. The color and direction I wanted to take became clear to me as I created. My previous albums sung in Spanish inspired me this time to also sing in English, the mother tongue of the blues. I also felt compelled to sing in Spanish as well as in Spanglish, a mix of English and Spanish akin to Randy Garibay - Chicano Blues Man. Blues, boogie, gospel, funk... and two instrumentals, "Humos" and "Jeff Is Gone," make up "Blue Avenida," a 9-track album. A more radical and rough blues, more "dirty" with a rock sound, thick meaning two guitars accompanied by drums and bass. All tracks were played live in the studio with guitar solos "one shot," giving the energy of spontaneity and improvisation. The role of vocals and choirs appeared crucial to me. Delicate melodies enriched by choirs traverse this album. Improvisations inspired by the universal theme of love, the breath of the soul, "I Need Your Love," "Taj," "True Love," "I Should Be Glad," but also my feelings echoing this world that is not right, ecology, racism, ultra-liberalism choking people, exile, uprooting, injustices, "Mundo Oscuro," "áHuye!," "Naciste." "Humos," literally "smokes," an introspective journey through the vast spaces resonating with JJ Cale, Ry Cooder, Derek Trucks. I left a special place for the instrumental "Jeff Is Gone," a slide ballad, thus closing the album, a tribute to Jeff Beck.

Lorenzo Sanchez, guitars, vocals
Philippe Dandrimont, bass
Stéphane Ranaldi, drums
Lou Sanchez, backing vocals

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