Sea Road. Carlos Pellicer Anderes

V-548-2024

Road. road to the sea, road to optimism, road to humility, road to the future. Sea Road was commissioned by the Agrupació Musical Cultural de Teulada (Spain) to celebrate its 50th anniversary (1973-2023), a relatively young band that carries its origin and the place where it was born and grew up for all ?fty years. Its geographical location, to the northwest of the province of Alicante (Spain), sharing the demographic nucleus with Moraira, makes Teulada a unique territory that becomes the gateway (or road) to the sea. This fact is not insigni?cant, since despite the fact that international tourism invades almost any point of the Alicante coast today, the true heart of the population is, at least, a few kilometres from all this maelstrom, keeping intact its essence, its tradition, its culture, and above all the pride of being at the last point of a path that inevitably surprises us suddenly with the immensity of the sea.

The music written in Sea Road aims to re?ect how all this has been impregnated in the AMCT musicians themselves. They live and develop their passion for music outside of any almost picturesque expansion, and they cannot help but re?ect their optimism to follow the same 'road' traveled up to now and their humility to not lose their origin, an origin symbolised in the work with the use, as a compositional resource, of a popular song that is well known throughout the Valencian territory and that tirelessly serves as a link throughout the audition. Sea Road is a work that is equally divided into moments of grandiosity, celebration, feeling, but especially a music that from beginning to end tries to re?ect a lot of OPTIMISM. Always know who we have been, with unstoppable optimism to know what we want to be.