PERUVIAN COMPOSER SERGIO DÍAZ DE ROJAS RELEASES  IMPASSIONED NEW EP ‘SUITE BOTANIQUE’

Raised in a family of musicians in Peru, now living in Germany, composer and instrumentalist Sergio Díaz De Rojas, releases his new EP Suite Botanique, along a visualizer to accompany the piece.

Suite Botanique is an ode to some of Sergio’s favorite trees, flowers, and other natural elements, such as water streams and mushrooms.

He describes the project, “Inspired by Seraphina and my forest walks around Valencia, Düsseldorf, Krems an der Donau, and Hamburg, Suite Botanique is an ode to some of my favorite trees, flowers, and other natural elements, such as water streams and mushrooms.“

He continues, “Suite Botanique is, in a way, quite different from what I have been releasing so far. It still revolves around the piano but it incorporates various new elements such as musical saw, field recordings, an analogue synthesizer, and quite a bit of reel-to-reel tape processing (and distortion) as well as the classic, gorgeous sound of Roland’s Space Echo.:

Suite Botanique incorporates various new elements such as a musical saw, field recordings, an analog synthesizer, and quite a bit of reel-to-reel tape processing (and distortion) and the classic, gorgeous sound of Roland’s Space Echo. 

Sergio took inspiration from his grandfather and his grandfather’s sister, both accomplished pianists and composers. The latter relative —his great aunt Elsa— first taught Sergio classical piano and became the guiding force in his musical development, introducing him to Bach and Chopin when he was 11.