
Ruiz Gómez
Caetanos
In the wake of the 2016 Venice festival, I caught "Caetanos" live and heard a lot of sounds. The name of the album and his material are interrelated, but I'd consider "Caetanos" a post-academic synthesis of the works of other scholars of ancient and medieval music. The two disc have a broad scope in each. “Romeo’s Rock” is an avant-garde piece exploring the musical possibilities of the bagpipes in the late-1600s. “Stoics” challenges the medieval church’s canon of sixteenth-century notes by giving them a modernist twist. “The Ninth Century’s Bach Bach’s Tower’s Horns" is a modernist piece that blends the piano of 17th-century Johann Sebastian Bach with string instruments from the circle of Martin Bardon, Abbé Martin and François Boulez.