Alonso Quijano

Some musicians are drawn to sound. Alonso Quijano was drawn to stories. The Spanish guitar found him late, picked up quietly, shaped by listening. But the music had been there longer than the instrument.

For a long time the music lived at the edge of his favourite myths and legends. The great iberian tales. Cervantes, Lorca, the ballads of romanceros, the chronicles of lost knights and forgotten kingdoms. They left their dust on everything he wrote. He was never interested in singing about love or Tuesday mornings. He wanted the meseta at dusk. The last ember of a campfire. The knight who rides toward the giants knowing they will win.

When the tools of the modern age finally caught up with what he had always heard in his head, Alonso Quijano began crafting the music that had been waiting: songs that carry the weight of centuries without wearing the costume, dark and open like a Castilian plain under storm light. Crónicas de Iberia is where those songs will live on.