Abe Rábade

Abe Rábade, a Galician pianist and composer, presents Nova Botánica in Madrid, a project that blends Galician roots with jazz improvisation and a chamber-music idiom, inspired by the native vegetation of his homeland.

Nova Botánica is the most recent work by Abe Rábade, and its Madrid premiere. The project takes Galicia's native flora as its axis to explore how different traditions, sensibilities and artistic languages relate to one another. The compositions bring together traditional Galician repertoire, the improvisation typical of jazz and the expressiveness of the chamber format.

The work engages with popular texts and draws on references to authors from diverse cultures and eras. The result is a soundscape inspired by nature in which each element adds contrast and nuance, without one tradition cancelling out the others.

According to the proposal, the encounter moves between the urban and the rural, between experimentation and heritage, and between the transcendent and the light-hearted. It is a way of approaching Galician music through the contemporary language of jazz. Sala Villanos hosts concerts and shows in Madrid.