Two guitars gently envelop the uniquely evocative bandoneon of Dino Saluzzi on El Viejo Caminante, (‘The Old Wanderer’). Here, the Argentinean father and son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi are joined by Norway’s Jacob Young, in an album of musical depth and great charm.

“It fills me with joy”, says Dino Saluzzi, delighting in this recording’s sonic blend, with José on classical guitar and Jacob on Telecaster and acoustic steel-string guitar. “Jacob and José are very good together. They have different sounds, different visions, but when it comes to the artistic output there is something beautiful happening.”

The elder Saluzzi, who turned 90 in May, has lost none of his youthful enthusiasm for artistic collaboration, or for venturing beyond stylistic borders: “I always strive to make contact with new ideas outside my normal element,” he says, still seeking out contexts that offer, as he puts it, “potential for both musical and human growth.”

The program includes originals, new and old, by all three musicians, a song by Karin Krog as well as a couple of standards – Dino sees the album as a collection of music from different times and places that touches upon tango, Argentinean folk music and jazz and makes of these allusions something fresh.

1. La Ciudad De Los Aires Buenos [6:14]
2. Northern Sun [5:35]
3. Quiet March [5:25]
4. Buenos Aires 1950 [4:10]
5. Mi Hijo Y Yo [5:17]
6. Tiempos De Ausencias [4:26]
7. Someday My Prince Will Come [8:11]
8. Y Amo A Su Hermano [7:59]
9. El Viejo Caminante [5:22]
10. Dino Is Here [5:49]
11. Old House [6:35]
12. My One And Only Love [6:24]

Recorded in April 2023 2021-2024 in Saluzzi Music Studio, Buenos Aires, the album opens on the dulcet elegance of La Ciudad De Los Aires Buenos, the cultured Northern Sun and the gossamer of Quiet March, and then we are gifted the atmospheric Buenos Aires 1950, the engaging Mi Hijo Y Yo and the playful Tiempos De Ausencias.

Along next is the refinement of Someday My Prince Will Come, the languishing beauty of Y Amo A Su Hermano and some accordion-driven excellence that drives El Viejo Caminante, which are followed seamlessly by the perky Dino Is Here, the new set rounding out on the all-embracing Old House, closing on an earnest yearn that thrives throughout My One And Only Love.

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