Táctil Marco Mezquida

• 1 Nobles y sentimentales 02:48
• 2 Constantine 04:55
• 3 Pe Di Boi 02:39
• 4 Felice 03:21
• 5 Cádiz 05:16
• 6 Fraternitat 03:28
• 7 World's Hope 05:56
• 8 Cuando Vienes 02:11
• 9 Hermana 03:30
• 10 Táctil 07:30
• 11 Cavalcanti 06:25
• 12 Malambe 04:03
• 13 Tempus Fugit (Plor Per Palestina) 06:11
• 14 Brújula 06:52
• Total Runtime 01:05:05

Info for Táctil

After ten years of a musical adventure of rare intensity, pianist and composer Marco Mezquida presents TÁCTIL, his new self-produced album, to be released on February 20th, 2026. The fourth installment in a collaboration that has become almost fraternal, this album continues the journey begun with Ravel’s Dreams, a tribute to composer Maurice Ravel, followed by Talismán in 2020 and Letter to Milos in 2022. With TÁCTIL, Marco Mezquida, Aleix Tobías, and Martín Meléndez reach a sonic maturity where touch, sensitivity, and life itself become musical substance.

TÁCTIL is born from a fundamental desire: to reclaim the tactile dimension of musical expression. In a world where sound seems immaterial and destined to disappear as soon as it is created, Mezquida reminds us that music is also a matter of skin, vibration, and contact. Music takes shape through physical gestures: the piano struck, strings plucked or bowed, membranes caressed or percussed. Ten years of shared experience have forged this trio into a unique entity, a musical being with a common, deep, and fully realized voice.

TÁCTIL is a declaration of love for life, for skin, for sound, and for all people. A work born as much from the most radiant joy as from the deepest sorrow. “I have never loved so much. I have never cried so much inside. I have never lived so intensely,” writes Mezquida. With this album, he offers a vibrant testament to brotherhood, light, and shared emotion.

This new album is also imbued with the complexities of the contemporary world. In his liner notes, Marco Mezquida addresses the atrocities and injustices witnessed in recent years, particularly the violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people in Gaza. “A part of me dies every day,” he writes, shaken by the images and his helplessness in the face of civilian suffering. To them, to their dignity, to their hoped-for freedom, he dedicates the album. Faced with such pain, music has become a refuge, a driving force, and a vital necessity.

Celeste Alías, vocals (track 6)
Gala Celia, percussion
Martín Meléndez, cello
Marco Mezquida, piano, Rhodes, Hammond, Stimme (Track 4)
Aleix Tobias, drums, percussion

Marco Mezquida
Mezquida’s versatility and magnetism mean he is capable of naturally combining popular and high-brow in a personal cocktail of musics as diverse as jazz, free improvisation, romantic, impressionist, baroque, contemporary, pop and flamenco.

Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards and recognitions for his music and his recordings: the Alicia Award 2021 for his album Talismán (Self-published, 2020) and several Enderrock awards for best jazz album of the year. He has also won the BMW Jazz Award in Munich for the concert performance of his album Letter to Milos (Self-published, 2022); he received the City of Barcelona Award in 2019 for his second album with Chicuelo No hay dos sin tres (Self-published, 2019); he has also been chosen as Musician of the Year on four occasions by the Association of Jazz and Modern Musicians of Catalonia.

He has performed and/or recorded with great figures such as Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Carme Canela, Elliot Zigmund, Jorge Rossy, Billy Hart, Giulia Valle and Perico Sambeat. With regard to concerts, he has played in major auditoriums and concert halls in thirty-nine countries.

His projects as a leader in trio format include his albums Talismán (Self-published, 2020), Ravel’s dreams (Self-published, 2017) and Letter to Milos (Self-published, 2022). Then there are the two works resulting from his connection with the great flamenco guitarist Chicuelo in the project Chicuelo & Marco Mezquida, as well as his duo with the singer Silvia Pérez Cruz and the duo with the Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral, among others.

He has composed and recorded music for several theatre productions, two of them for the Teatre Lliure: El curiós cas del gos a mitjanit (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) in 2015, and E.V.A. for the company T de Teatre, both successful and award-winning productions directed by Julio Manrique; and another for the Festival Grec, El Combat del Segle. He has also performed as a solo pianist with various symphony orchestras, municipal bands of Barcelona and Euskadi , and various big bands such as the Sinfónica del Vallès, la Filarmónica de Gran Canarias and the Sinfónica de Baleares, among others.

This album contains no booklet.