Pedro Moreira

Javier Subatin: Variaciones

by Jakob Baekgaard
April 13, 2020

When Argentinian guitarist Javier Subatin released his album Autotelic (Sintoma, 2018), it was a refreshing examination of form that took its point of departure in the intimate interplay between guitar and piano, occasionally enhanced by drums, bass and saxophone. It was a concept that did Subatin's complex compositions justice as he managed to find the right balance between insistent energy and a dwelling sense of space. However, it might be wrong to say that Subatin himself found ...