Camino

Camino is guitarist Sean Shibe’s first Pentatone album, an introspective program exploring French-Spanish musical borders, a pilgrimage leading from Ravel’s Pavane pour une Infante défunte, and José’s Pavana triste all the way to Mompou’s Canços i dansas 6 and 10, as well as his Suite compostelana. Shibe has deliberately granted Mompou a central role on this album, as his music demonstrates that melancholy, aimlessness and a whole host of other feelings are not things to be avoided or solved, but experiences to be felt deeply: not with sad nostalgia, but with genuine wonder and excitement at what this means for the future.