Eddie Reyes

Guitarist/Composer Eddie Reyes joins with Grammy Award winning Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, celebrated jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney and legendary percussionist Alex Acu?a Gemini Rising announces the release of the CD Lost World, an eclectic collection of original music that combines the deep and complex sonic architecture of flamenco and Afro-Cuban ceremonial Bata with the fluidity of American jazz.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, celebrated jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney and legendary percussionist Alex Acu?a

Gemini Rising announces the release of the CD Lost World, an eclectic collection of original music that combines the deep and complex sonic architecture of flamenco and Afro-Cuban ceremonial Bata with the fluidity of American jazz.

An accomplished professional guitarist and composer with an eclectic background in jazz, film scoring and musical theatre, Reyes connected with flamenco music in Spain six years ago on a trip to Andalucia. He was so taken with the genre, which offered a unique outlet for two of his great passions ? guitar and percussion ? that his wife bought him a flamenco guitar on New Year's Eve in Madrid. He picked it up and since that day, he's never put it down.

Back in LA, while working with percussionist Ricardo Isaac, whom he knew from his days playing Afro-Cuban/Brazilian music in New York, he took out his flamenco guitar and let loose. And the two musicians were blown away by the symbiotic relationship between the two instruments and the two musical forms.

Reyes explains, ?Having been set on fire by these two powerful influences, I started to experience connections between this music and existing forms of music around the world.?

And this experience sparked a four-year musical journey that would take him back to masters of flamenco in Andalucia, reunite him with former bandmates in New York and kindle groundbreaking collaborations with percussionists, vocalists, string players and masters of ethnic wind instruments from around the world.

The result is an album that, according to Reyes, ?is an exploration of rhythms as they bind together seemingly disparate worlds into a connected aural tapestry.?