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About In My Mind
Product Description His first solo CD spotligths his considerable skills as a player and composer, and it's a delight. "Aguas"(Waters), the opener, is aerified and melodic, and showcases his tight-knit band, including bassist Al Criado, drummer Joey Heredia and percussionist Juan Oliva. In My Mind is an enjoyable collection of traditional and progressive Latin American musical styles played with invention and taste. Review ...he's also and outstanding composer and arranger... Discover a major talent. -- Mark Rowland, Musician Ciro Hurtado is a must listen for lovers of guitar music. Hurtado's mastery of the instrument is immediately evident. -- Robert Gardner, The Independent Like Huayucaltia's "Caminos," "In My Mind," is filled with the rhythms and melodies of traditional Peruvian music. -- David Siverman, Chicago Tribune About the Artist Ciro Hurtado is a guitarist-composer from Per who has been actively performing since the early seventies. His early musical career started during his high school years in Lima, performing in music festivals, theater recitals, weddings, birthdays and even funerals. At this time, Lima was experiencing a revival of traditional music, while the radio air waves were saturated with Rock & Roll. These two forces are the major influences in his musical style. He arrived in the USA in 1975 where he studied guitar with private teachers and at the Guitar Institute of Technology. Later he joined Strunz & Farah for a few years performing at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland,Vancouver Folk Festival in Canada, Havana Classical Guitar Festival in Cuba, Kennedy Center and a tour of Per. His participation with them was documented in the audiophile album "Misterio" for the label Water Lily Acoustics. Ciro is one of the founding members and currently the musical director of the group Huayucaltia. He has toured extensively in the United States and Per with them, sharing the stage with artists such as Jackson Browne, Sting, Holly Near and Carlos Vives. He has recorded and co-produced six albums with Huayucaltia: "Despertar," " Caminos," " Horizontes," "Amazonas," "Origenes" and "Destinos". As a solo artist he has produced and recorded five albums where he leads a Latin Jazz band comprised of top L.A. musicians featuring notable players such as Justo Almario and Pedro Eustache, among many others. His solo effort includes "In My Mind," "Tales from Home," on ROM Records, "The Magic Hour" (collaborative effort with his wife Cindy Harding),"Guitarra" under his own label and "Echoes of the Andes" on the Canadian label METACOM. In addition, he has produced and recorded albums for LA Law's Michele Greene, Conjunto Jardn and many other talented artists. Ciro has scored and participated musically in various feature films and documentaries such as "Baraka," "Dead Women in Lingerie," "Max is Missing," "Hope Street," "Monsters" and at the request of Ry Cooder did a short appearance in Walter Hill's "Extreme Prejudice". Ciro's guitar work ranges from the very traditional Latin American genres to the more sophisticated fusion Latin-Jazz idioms. His fine command of the instrument borrows from the classical techniques as well as alternate plectrum picking for high intensity solos. His guitar work is the most contemporary sound heard today on the nylon string guitar. Passion, a high melodic sensibility, and musical vision are the qualities attributed to his playing. There is no limit to his composition skills, from popular lyrical songs to sophisticated intricate classical oriented works. Pieces written by Ciro evoke motifs, landscapes and exciting elements of South American styles and rhythms, placing him among a select generation of Latin American composers. What the critics are saying about the music of Ciro Hurtado: ".. an elegantly polished guitarist, who can evoke flourishes of flamenco or .. jazzy staccato runs .. with consummate ease." Richard S. Ginell - Los Angeles Times "Combines the dexterity and elegan
