Luis Rocco: flauta
Lisandro Royal: bandoneón
Alejandro Becerra: cello
Guillo Espel: guitar
The quartet continues its recitals series in Buenos Aires, Argentina and abroad presenting their latest album “Souvenir”, Available on CD and in all digital stores. the hope!
Press/criticism regarding “Souvenir”
” A set of very inspired compositions. The memory’ of the title is precisely the center of this album, the way the substrates are filtered without ostentation or pretentiousness. Espel has achieved, in any case, the holy grail –almost never achieved- of musicians who have worked from both popular traditions and scholarly learning: the naturalness. that in his music, the music that constitutes it simply appears”
Diego Fischerman – The sound of dreams, 25.07.23
” The ten works that make up 'Souvenir’ show the refinement with which Espel and the quartet weave the various melodic and harmonic textures by appealing to careful work in the arrangements and an exquisite development of the timbral aspects.. The name of the song that Espel appeals to to define the compositions of this new work, find a higher stratum, turning each track on the album into a small work of sound goldsmithing.”
Carlos Salatino – Tiempo Argentino 04.05.22
” Souvenir is a concentrated fragrance of everything we have heard from Guillo Espel: his voice is there, his musical philosophy, your creativity without labels. Espel's music includes the other…This inclusive kindness does not seem to imply any type of concession to the other.: the creator is there, with his baggage, that is complex and sensitive in a very own sense, and there is nothing that will make him give up on him. Does it make sense to ask what kind of music Guillo Espel makes? Not really. Guillo Espel's music does not give up any possibility: as Borges says, You have the right to all the traditions from this edge of the world. And he exercises them.”
Daniel Varacalli Costas – Survivor in the City, 29.04.22
“Guillo Espel's is not a common career, guided by the conventional paths of listening. Sus discos, difficult to classify but always at a possible intersection between Argentine popular music and academic tradition, evoke a prolific author, eclectic whose expressive current moves between diverse genres and styles. ‘Souvenir’ is not the exception Shelters openings, contemporary counterpoints and gestures”
Juan Manuel Manarino – ” Ñ ” Clarion 29.04.22
“The great Guillo Espel presents 'Souvenir’ with his magnificent quartet, virtuoso, with a proposal, very original language and timbre, undoubtedly personal”
Sergio Pujol. – Influences Radio University of La Plata – 03.04.22