9th March 2022: Recent press highlights for Marta Sanchez’ ‘SAAM’ include DownBeat Magazine, Wall Street Journal and Lament For A Straight Line

Madrid-born pianist-composer Marta Sanchez recently released SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) on Whirlwind Recordings. It’s an album driven by emotional candour and boundary-pushing compositions, realised by a talented cast of frontline partners Alex Lore and Roman Filiu and Rashaan Carter and Allan Mednard on backline duties, alongside Sanchez.

Recent press highlights for SAAM:

“A fine pianist who is a particularly inventive arranger-composer… SAAM serves as an excellent introduction to her writing.”
DownBeat Magazine

“Ms. Sánchez’s music is accessible and lovely, yet built on stark contrasts. One rhythm rubs against another. Multiple melodies coexist. Gentle passages get interrupted by sudden crashes.”
Wall Street Journal

“Ultimately, though, SAAM is about what happens when five musicians work as one. That’s when we hear the flourishing of Sánchez’s keenly personal ideas, that’s when her sophistication resounds in an almost breathtaking manner.”
Lament For A Straight Line

“Full of tightly interlocking melodies and rhythms that spin and click like gears in a watch… Fantastic.”
Stereogum

“One of the most consistently satisfying bands in contemporary jazz — largely thanks to the well-ordered complexity and openhearted energy of Sánchez’s tunes, which blur the divide between lead melody and accompaniment, steady pulse and unruly drift.”
New York Times

SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) is out now and available on CD / DL / 180 gram, Limited Edition, 2xLP vinyl and gatefold artwork. Check it out here.