Download Little Love
My son Manuel Arcadio (Manú) is already a year old! While Mónica was pregnant with him, and we had yet to meet him face to face, I wrote this song for him. This recording features the voice of Marta Gomez, Ruben Samama on bass, and assorted instruments (all the ones that aren’t a form of guitar or shaker…those are by me) and Manú’s heart beat while in the womb!
Little Love
music and Lyrics, Sebastian Cruz
Little love of mine
You came to be inside
Your mother’s sky like
Silent thunder
Quiet spark inside
I know it’s dark in there
And warm and loud and
Always night it’s
Life before words
Little light of ours
Your glow is warm and tender
Little life in her
You’re made of dreams
Of sacred symbols and
Vibrations when you
Break your silence
You will baptize
Our new life with your first cry of life
Download Lucía Pulido – María que iba en el mar
This is my arrangement, inspired by Iván Benavides’s version, of a ‘bunde,’ a rhythm from the Pacific coast of Colombia.
Download Cadenita de Oro
(voice: Bárbara Martínez)
I wrote this song for Juan Fischer’s movie “Buscando a Miguel”
Download Lucía Pulido – El Rey del Río. Album: Luna Menguante
Download Remolinos
I wrote this piece a couple of years ago for Alejandro Florez’ ensemble Tibaguí. It’s a piece for a traditional Colombian guitar trio (guitar, tiple, and bandola) plus a kind of flute jazz ensemble (flute, bass and drums) This is a live recording from 2008 at El Taller Latinoamericano. I just recently realized that this recording existed through my friend Bernardo Palombo from el Taller who said that it was one of his favorite pieces of music! gracias hombre, for the comment and moreover for supporting so many musicians and artists at el Taller for so long.
featuring:
Alejandro Florez-bandola
Sebastian Cruz-tiple
Nilko Andreas Guarín-guitar
Sam Sadigursky-flute
Pedro Giraudo-bass
Franco Pinna-drums
Download From a Land with no seasons
This I wrote for Holly Page Joyner’s Sundance documentary “Pack, Strap, Swallow.” It’s an amazing documentary about women imprisoned for drug smuggling in Ecuador. I used the marimba as the main voice of the piece. The kind of marimba I used is a sonority common to both Colmbia’s and Ecuador’s Pacific coast.
Download El Hombre (Poem by William Carlos Williams, music by Sam Sadigursky)
This is a Colombian rhtyhm (currulao) and Sam invited me to play all percussion and guitars on this track of his lovely words project iii – miniatures. Here’s the poem:
EL HOMBRE
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
William Carlos Williams
Download Pájaro Nocturno – Tibaguí.
I wrote this tune for Tibaguí, Alejandro Florez’ project. It features Sam Sadigursky on alto flute, and is part of Tibagui’s CD ‘retrato’ available on CD baby.
Download God Bless the Child.
Informal recording at my place with my friend Matt Davis. I play the first melody, Matt the first solo, I play the second solo and Matt the head out…
Download Mis Secretos – Tibaguí
I wrote the words to this beautiful music by Alejandro Florez. Voice by Lucía Pulido.
