Madrid-based composer and pianist Saúl Aguado de Aza returns with EL CANTO DEL POETA, a richly textured album released on 14th May 2026 that feels like a conversation between memory, literature, and lived experience. Rooted in classical training yet constantly reaching outward, the record drifts between minimal piano sketches and fuller, cinematic arrangements, all tied together by an emotional honesty.
Across its runtime, inspiration seeps in from everywhere: the hush of nature, fragments of personal history, and the lingering voices of poets both modern and ancient. That literary thread is embedded in the writing itself, like verses that refuse to stay on the page and instead turn into melody.
Things open up with “Relámpago,” and right away it’s all voltage and emotion, with thick, impassioned vocals cutting through driving percussion and sharply twisting strings. It’s dramatic without tipping into excess, more like a storm carefully conducted than simply unleashed. Then comes “Café Cantante,” where everything softens into something more intimate: hypnotic plucked strings and gliding piano ripple underneath a voice that floats gently above it all, warm and unhurried, like a half-remembered conversation in a dim room.
Later on, “Vieja Historia” shifts the tone again, shimmering guitars and delicate percussion framing a vocal delivery that feels both engaging and slightly nostalgic, as if the song is turning an old photograph over in its hands. There’s a sense throughout that every track is revisiting something already lived, but refusing to treat it as finished business.
With EL CANTO DEL POETA, Saúl Aguado de Aza builds reflective spaces where emotion, intellect, and melody quietly fold into each other, leaving you somewhere softer than where you started.
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Review by: Naomi Joan