Cuejero is the result of the artistic connection and interaction between diverse musical cultures. The music is inspired by contemporary flamenco and castilian folk with influences from the Middle East and Latin America.
The aim of this project is to find the artistic relationship between those cultures and music traditions, which have been living together for hundreds of years.
The idea was born in Boston, MA where Javier was an active musician and collaborator in a wide diversity of music projects during his studies at Berklee College of Music. During this period he began to create new music taking elements from his own musical background combined with the musical traditions in which he was immersed. The output of this artistic process was the selection of compositions and arrangements, which are part of this record.
Javier developed the project with the support of the Berklee College of Music´s Mediterranean Institute and it was produced in collaboration with The Global Music Centre. The recording involved musicians with diverse musical and cultural backgrounds, coming from U.S.A, Finland, Spain, Japan, Palestine, Israel, Iran, Colombia, Mexico, India and Australia. All of them have contributed and enhanced this project by giving their own vision to the music.
