EDUARDO LAGUILLO
The critics say . . .
“Manoa radiates light from every pore, and it infects any listener who is lucky enough to get into this musician’s private universe with a variety of disparate but always pleasurable sensations. Laguillo, like the cosmopolitan composer he is, knits together all kinds of musical idioms in this album, from a strong ethnic sense to symphonic subtlety, and the result is utterly revealing. But Laguillo is not only able to combine different languages to perfection; he has also got a breathtaking capacity for suggestion, that indefinable something that lifts some albums to the category of the exceptional. A great album, of the sort that stands untouched by times or fashions.
Rafa Dorado MARGEN
“Eduardo Laguillo is astonishing again with his latest album, a very personal album fraught with emotiveness, with constantly changing rhythmic bases and far-from-simple melodies that are caressed by a Celtic whistle, by an oboe, by the composer’s hands and by his own voice alike. An album that has got to be defined by at least one adjective: gorgeous.”
Marta Lanau World Music
“The second album by multi-instrumentalist Eduardo Laguillo contains various sensual and gorgeous, luminous and warm instrumental pieces, without any kind of sonorous wordplay. Music that goes beyond nice, to pitch its tent in the lands of loveliness.”
Blanco y Negro . ABC
“Eduardo Laguillo has made an excellent disk that leaps out from the average and again screams for recognition from an open public that flees from labelling and recognises beauty in itself. Beautiful.”
E.P
Manoa" Enero 1998
In the realm of new musics (and what a big grab-bag that is!), Spain can boast of composers and artists who have raised the standard far above what we have reached in other genres. Unfortunately, the oeuvre of these composers has not spread as widely or had as much repercussion as that of other, more popular styles, and because of that some toweringly great artists continue to be practically unknown to the public at large. Eduardo Laguillo has worked on numerous projects, and in 1990 he even founded his own recording label, becoming one of the pioneers in the promotion of new musics in Spain. Producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, he presents now his second solo album after his debut disk Hay algo en el aire earned him the applause of all who heard it. Manoa, his new project, is backed by elaborate production and the support of excellent instrumentalists, just right for the album to come together easily at a quality level that has nothing to envy of anyone.
In the realm of composition, Eduardo furnishes his pieces with the most concrete forms to be found in a diffuse world, he transmits spirituality without needing a concrete environment, and he fills the room with live sounds that need seek no help from new technologies. His pieces, which have concrete forms and lyrical melodies, are complemented by utterly right arrangements supported by the work of the great artists playing with him. Altogether he has made a disk of excellent quality, one that leaps out from the average and again screams for recognition from an open public that flees from labelling and recognises beauty in itself. Beautiful.at leaps out from the average and again screams for recognition from an open public that flees from labelling and recognises beauty in itself. Beautiful.
“Querido Eduardo:
I don’t know how to thank you for this island you’ve found, Manoa.
I’d never been anywhere like it, and I’d like to stay there forever, as long as I can take somebody else with me. And some photographs. And my cross stitching.
As soon as the music started, it sent me on a trip through time, my time, and I saw myself at fifteen, at twenty, at thirty, at forty, and I saw myself in the future, and beyond.
And when the music finished, I hit play all over again, and then again, and now, though the CD’s off, I can still hear it, on and off, by day and by night, and I like it.”
Verónica Forqué
Actress
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