released August 1, 2001

FROM DOWN THERE
by Pablo Ablanedo Octet (2001) - Fresh Sound New Talent Records

Jenny Scheinmann (violin)
Avishai Cohen (trumpet)
Anat Cohen (saxophones, clarinet)
Jerome Sabbagh (saxophones)
Juancho Herrera (electric guitar)
Pablo Ablanedo (piano & composition)
Fernando Huergo (bass)
Franco Pinna (drums & bombo legüero)
Julio Santillan (acoustic guitar)
Katie Viqueira (voice)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Produced by: Frederik Rubens

Executive Producer Jordi Pujol

Recorded by: Frederik Rubens and Ross Petersen at Avatar Studios NY, August 2000

“Dreaming” (a capella) recorded at PBS Westwood, MA by Peter Kontrimas

Mastered by: Jonathan Wyner at M-Works, Cambridge, MA.

Cover art by Lucile Chaurin Ablanedo

REVIEWS

"Argentine composer Pablo Ablanedo makes a disarmingly gentle but firm debut notable more for his ascetic, introspective writing than his low-profile piano. This band plays the through-composed and chamber-like pieces understatedly rather than in-your-face, slowly unfolding a mature, inclusive world vision.” (4 Stars) Fred Bouchard, Downbeat Magazine (US)

“Pablo Ablanedo Octet is hot. However, to describe the octet in simple terms is to do the group a disservice, because their performances on From Down There are exciting, complex, intricate and fun." Katie DeBonville, Northeastern Performer (US)

"The newest works by this Argentinean pianist and composer are as mature and sophisticated as any of the best modern Latin jazz." Bob Young, Boston Herald (US)

"It would be a mistake to pigeonhole the pianist/composer Pablo Ablanedo as a "Latin jazz artist”: the lush, complex weave of his writing for octet on the new Alegría (Fresh Sounds) has as much to do with Gil Evans as with the tangos of Ablanedo’s fellow Argentine, Astor Piazzolla." Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix (US)