Alfredo Santa Ana
Miranda Wong, piano
Before The World Sleeps

Out: November 15th, 2024 on ASA Records/ Redshift Records (CD/DL)
Genres: Modern Composition, Solo Piano

ALFREDO SANTA ANA — WEB | BANDCAMP
MIRANDA WONG — WEB
REDSHIFT RECORDS  — WEB | BANDCAMP

It is hardly an overstatement to say that regardless of one’s artistic discipline or aesthetic orientation, among the biggest questions facing artists today is the very future of humanity itself. Rather than grappling with this topic beneath the surface of his music, Vancouver-based Mexican-Canadian composer Alfredo Santa Ana has elected to work with these assumptions transparently on his new release, Before the World Sleeps, though not in the manner that one might expect. In his case these concerns manifest more in his approach than in terms of attempting to assert a narrative. There’s actually very little that could be characterized as grim or even apathetic about these, rather the collection covers a wide emotional and textural topography, demonstrating both his ambitious range as a composer and Miranda Wong’s versatility and sensitivity as an interpreter. Though it ostensibly emerges from a sense of impending crisis, with Before the World Sleeps one gets the impression that Alfredo Santa Ana has transformed the intrinsic urgency of the situation that he describes into potent creative fuel, generating a vivid portrait of  his compositional imagination.

COVERAGE:
Year-End/ Radio — Tercera Vía, RTVE3 (January 7th, 2025)
List — Upcoming Releases, Tinnitist
List — Darryl Sterdan, Next Week in Music | Nov. 11-17 • The Long List: 530+ Releases On The Way, Tinnitist
List/ News — Steve Smith, For the Record: November 8, 2024, Night After Night (November 8, 2024)
List/ News — Steve Smith, For the Record: November 15, 2024, Night After Night (November 15, 2024)
Feature — Alexander Varty, In fateful times, Alfredo Santa Ana’s music draws on deeper meanings of day-to-day life, Stir
Review — Frédéric Cardin, PAN M 360
Review — Dionys, Inactuelles
Review — David Reed, Belleville Intelligencer
Review — Kaitlyn Chan, La Scena Musicale
Review — Russell Trunk, Exclusive Magazine
Review — Tom Haugen, Take Effect
Review — nitestylez.de
Round-up — MEANS: nOVEMBER rOUND-UP, MEANS Magazine
Micro-review — WRUV FM
Podcast — The Moderns, Ep 345
Podcast — The Moderns, Ep 341
Podcast — Different Noises, #67
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 10 — Experimental/ Modern Classical, CJSW (February 5, 2025)
Radio/ Chart — Weekly Top 10 — Experimental/ Modern Classical, CJSW (January 29, 2025)
Radio/ Chart — Top albums: Jan 20 – Jan 26, 2025, CKCU
Radio/Chart — Weekly Top 10 — Experimental/ Contemporary Classical (#1), CJSW (December 18, 2024)
Radio/Chart — Weekly Top 30, CJSW (#3) (December 12, 2024)
Radio/Chart — Weekly Top 10 — Experimental/ Contemporary Classical (#1), CJSW (December 12, 2024)
Radio — Nightmare Delirium, CJSW (August 17, 2025)
Radio — Musica Esoterica, KWUR (July 1, 2025)
Radio — Musica Esoterica, KWUR (May 27, 2025)
Radio — Floating Head of Zsa-Zsa, WRUV (May 20, 2025)
Radio — Nightmare Delirium, CJSW (April 20, 2025)
Radio — Floating Head of Zsa-Zsa, WRUV (March 25, 2025)
Radio — Vocal Cords, CJSW (March 24, 2025)
Radio — Nightmare Delirium, CJSW (February 23, 2025)
Radio — Vocal Cords, CJSW (January 27, 2025)
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Radio — Maple-Infused Breakfast, Big E Radio (January 18, 2025)
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Radio — ((tone.bender)), CJRU/ HORADS 88.6 FM (January 5, 2025)
Radio — Musica esoterica, KWUR (December 28, 2024)
Radio — Icarus Radio, Urgent FM (December 26, 2024)
Radio — Rest & Digest, WRUV (December 24, 2024)
Radio — Nightmare Delirium, CJSW (December 15, 2024)
Radio — The Pickle Jar, WRUV (December 11, 2024)
Radio — 80lb Cardstock, XRay FM (December 10, 2024)
Radio — Nightmare Delirium, CJSW (December 8, 2024)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (December 5, 2024)
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Radio — Motte and Bailey, CJSW (December 4, 2024)
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Radio — Modern Notebook (WSMR, WUSF etc. SYNDICATED) (December 1, 2024)
Radio — Pushing The Envelope, WHUS (November 30, 2024)
Radio — Tercera vía, RTVE 3 (November 26, 2024)
Radio — Don’t Trip w/ Margarita, NTS Radio (November 11, 2024)
Radio — Electric Sense, CIUT (November 6, 2024)
Radio — Expansive Prairie Skies, UMFM (November 6, 2024)
Radio — Not Brahms and Liszt, WMBR (November 4, 2024)
Radio — Floating Head of Zsa Zsa, WRUV (October 29, 2024)
Radio — Melody in Mayhem, Asheville FM (October 25, 2024)