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

I composed this from an edited improvised performance with the lids of some of my cooking pots, among other kitchen items.

Sergio Reyes-violin
Sebastian Cruz – pots, pans, bucket, cookie jar, guitars, etc

New instrumental piece that includes, among other instruments, toy piano and fretless guitar. Composed and performed by Sebastian Cruz

I musicalized a series of very short videos I shot with a flip camera- from 13 seconds to about a minute and a half. I wrote for flute and guitar with minor textural overdubs. The flute is played by Sam Sadigursky. The videos are almost like photographs: they are mostly only one thing, or image, slightly moving, almost devoid of development or narrative. They are visual, and musical haiku.

One of my first songs, from 1995, part of the repertoire for “Los del Centro” a rock band in which I played in my teens in Bogotá. Here it is re-arranged for Coba’s 2nd CD, Canción Mandala. Featuring Sam Sadigursky on Alto flute, Greg Heffernan ond cello, and Roland Satterwhite on violin.

El diablo de la botella
Me pide que tome de ella
Tener, temer, beber

La mesa solo la mesa
La vela solo la vela
Madera y fuego arder

Cuando llega la oscuridad
Va a empezar el juego
Menos mal hay oscuridad
Sino sería ciego

Y el fuego empieza a bailar, lento
Y en silencio terminar, muda te quiero ver

Abrázame con tu braza
Sin que sepa yo que pasa
Madera y fuego arder

Se asoma y no se descubre
Que queme y que no lo alumbre
Tener, temer, beber

Cuando llega la oscuridad
Va a empezar el juego
Menos mal hay oscuridad
Sino sería ciego

Y el fuego empieza a bailar, lento
Y en silencio terminar, muda te quiero ver

This is my arrangement, inspired by Iván Benavides’s version, of a ‘bunde,’ a rhythm from the Pacific coast of Colombia.

I wrote this song for Juan Fischer’s movie “Buscando a Miguel”

Sept. 11, 2010. Jazz al Parque was an amazing concert, the production, the audience, the incredible energy. Unforgettable. I will upload more videos of this soon, but for now here’s a sponatneous one that someone in the audience uploaded on youtube.

First step towards the next Cheap Landscape CD. With Alfredo el negro Rosado on ‘caja’ vallenata, and Yeiser Samir Rosado on guacharaca! September 4, 2010. This recording was possible thanks to Carolina Ponce de León, and to the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer