{"id":686,"date":"2023-02-06T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knoblochstrings.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:33:29","slug":"alex-garrobe-talks-about-small-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knoblochstrings.com\/en\/blog\/alex-garrobe-talks-about-small-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0lex Garrob\u00e9 talks about &#8220;Small creatures&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Petri Kumela&#8217;s Latest CD<\/h2>\n<h3>Small Creatures<\/h3>\n<p><em>Small Creatures<\/em> es, sin duda alguna, uno de los proyectos m\u00e1s interesantes que se ha dado en el mundo de la guitarra en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os. Para realizar este \u00e1lbum el guitarrista finland\u00e9s Petri Kumela propuso a treinta y cinco compositores de solvencia contrastada crear una colecci\u00f3n de piezas inspiradas en peque\u00f1os animales. De hecho uno de los m\u00faltiples aciertos de ese registro es la combinaci\u00f3n de m\u00fasica de compositores sinf\u00f3nicos como Pehr Henrik Nordgren, o Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez Verd\u00fa con cl\u00e1sicos del repertorio guitarr\u00edstico como Carlo Domeniconi o Maurizio Pisati.<\/p>\n<h2>Concepto del proyecto<\/h2>\n<p>Todos los compositores colaboraron en el proyecto de forma desinteresada y hab\u00eda dos condiciones a cumplir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>el tama\u00f1o del animal escogido no pod\u00eda ser mayor que el de un gato dom\u00e9stico<\/li>\n<li>las piezas deber\u00edan ser cortas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>La persona encargada de componer era libre de escoger el lenguaje de la pieza as\u00ed como el animal retratado, desde un topo hasta una mantis religiosa. El resultado ha sido tan exitoso que diversos compositores se han sumado posteriormente al proyecto una vez este ha sido grabado. La colecci\u00f3n, por tanto, sigue creciendo.<\/p>\n<h2>Un mosaico de estilos<\/h2>\n<p>El proceso de trabajo ha resultado en un mosaico de estilos, lenguajes y aproximaciones al tema central que hace de este disco un producto \u00fanico. A pesar de tratarse de un \u00e1lbum conteniendo principalmente obras compuestas en lenguajes avanzados, la presencia de diversos estilos, la brevedad de las piezas y el hecho de que estas est\u00e9n asociadas a animales concretos las hacen muy accesibles incluso para un p\u00fablico infantil.<\/p>\n<h2>Interpretaci\u00f3n y producci\u00f3n<\/h2>\n<p>La ejecuci\u00f3n y el tratamiento de cada miniatura es m\u00e1s que remarcable. Kumela se siente igual de confortable con la magn\u00edfica evocaci\u00f3n de la ardilla japonesa compuesta por Nordgren, que con el gato, en estilo popular brasile\u00f1o compuesto por Cyro Delvizio o con el neo-romanticismo de Jenna Vainio. As\u00ed este registro combina un virtuosismo preciosista con el rigor y la imaginaci\u00f3n musical que Kumela imprime a todos sus trabajos. La toma de sonido, tan decisiva en una obra de marqueter\u00eda sonora como la que nos ocupa, acaba arropando todos los elementos discursivos creando un producto impecable. Finalmente, el dise\u00f1o de la cubierta y el empaquetado acaban de convertir todo el \u00e1lbum en una peque\u00f1a joya de dise\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<h2>Reconocimiento<\/h2>\n<p>Iniciativas como <em>Small Creatures<\/em> ayudan de forma decisiva a colocar la guitarra cl\u00e1sica y contempor\u00e1nea en el complejo mundo musical de nuestros d\u00edas. No en vano ha sido escogido Disco del a\u00f1o por el Finnish Broadcasting Company y ha obtenido el premio EMMA otorgado por la industria discogr\u00e1fica finlandesa. Hace falta mucho talento y saber hacer para poder unir con tanta fortuna tantos elementos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c0lex Garrob\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petri Kumela&#8217;s Latest CD Small Creatures Small Creatures es, sin duda alguna, uno de los proyectos m\u00e1s interesantes que se ha dado en el mundo de la guitarra en los &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-guitar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00c0lex Garrob\u00e9 talks about &quot;Small creatures&quot; - Knobloch Strings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Petri Kumela&#039;s Latest CD Small Creatures Small Creatures es, sin duda alguna, uno de los proyectos m\u00e1s interesantes que se ha dado en el mundo de la\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/knoblochstrings.com\/en\/blog\/alex-garrobe-talks-about-small-creatures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00c0lex Garrob\u00e9 talks about &quot;Small creatures&quot; - 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