After a life dedicated to the Aragonese jotathe singers Sergio Sanz and Jesús Gimeno are about to fulfill a dream. After many years sharing many moments and many stages, both have embarked on a joint project, “Trashumante”with which they seek to to broaden horizons and discover other music to make them live together with our folklore and our jota. For now, this Friday, November 22will be released its first single “Vuela Paloma”..
“We are two in love and passionate about our traditionof our culture and our roots. What we want is that it can reach as many people as possible and for that we believe that the way is to make it coexist with other musicdrinking from other music, drinking from other folklores and roots and transhumingas the title of our project says, other lands and other cultures”, he explains. Sergio Sanz.
Your project, in any case, has not been limited to music. Since the end of October, Sanz and Gimeno have been giving a glimpse of what is to come in the form of a Instagram account, @trashumante_musicwhere you can even listen to a 18 second preview of “Vuelta Paloma”.. There, both of them have also explained their trajectory and the vital point that has led them to embark on this project which, they hope, will have the success they desire.
For now the acceptanceacknowledges Sanz, “it is being impressive”.. “People are with a lot of eager to hear what we have in store. I am sure that it will surprise, that it will be liked and that it will arrive”, he assures. In this sense, they are not afraid of criticism. “We are open to everything that comes our way. We are responsible people and we deeply love the orthodoxy and purity of our jotabut that does not have to be a limitation to make it coexist with other musics and to try to to go one step further forward,” he adds.
THE IMPORTANCE OF “VUELA PALOMA” (FLYING PIGEON)
Although the project keeps many references, it is no coincidence that “Vuela Paloma” is the first single. that the public will be able to listen to. “It is the beginning because it symbolizes what we want: to fly, to open horizons and see the world“, he says. Moreover, he anticipates, “for us it also makes a nice and emotional tribute to the person who has transhumed the most with the Aragonese jota. and that, in fact, his profession was transhumance because he was a shepherd”, in a clear up to here I can read that, nevertheless, already gives many clues.
Regarding his relationship with Jesús Gimeno, Sanz even dares to describe it as a “blessed chance of life”, of whom he says “is like a brother”.. Together they have spent months and even years looking for options. “We’ve done a few tests that perhaps didn’t quite convince us, until we We have reached this point where we have found some wonderful and super professional people.“, he says.
Specifically, he refers to the producers Javier López Rollán and Diego Garcíaas well as musicians “out of series”. who have worked with artists such as David Bisbal, with whom they will now bring Trashumante to life.