Agustín Pereyra Lucena

"Agustín is crazy about Brazilian music. He has very good sound and technique. I believe he could have a great career as a guitarist!" VINICIUS DE MORAES (from the radio program: "Argentina 72"). "For two years I have been accompanying the passion and progress of the young Argentinian guitarist,and one thing I can tell you: keep this record well kept, Agustin's first,because in a few years it will be a rarity." VINICIUS DE MORAES.

"One of the most delicate and expressive guitarist that popular South American music has turned out. His music has an absolutely personal quality, differentiated from his masters, and in the music he composes, the Brazilian influence is merely a reference... He is a notable composer... an exceptional musician". DIEGO FISCHERMAN (Página 12).

"With profound knowledge of the essences... he knows the guitar well and exploits all the possibilities of an instrument that requires concentrated attention". RICARDO SALTON (Ambito Financiero).

"The first thing that conquers is his depth, a way of converting his guitar into something emotionally human with a great notion of rhythm and perfect technique. He does everything with excellence, warmth, great brilliance and undisputed category". (El Cronista Comercial). "He unfolds an embracing style of music, often evocative, always suggestive. An Argentine, who like no other, has the know how to spread the sensitivity of the musical pentagram of the bossa nova from the point of view of the extreme "porteño" of the southern cone of South America". EL PAIS (Uruguay). "Agustín Pereyra Lucena exhibit interpretive sobriety, good technical dominion of his instrument (which nevertheless never tempts him to exhibit a baroque virtuosity) and great sensitivity to elaborate delicate melodic lines. None of the songs played by this warmly expressive artist is far from a caressing atmosphere, nostalgically evocative of the Brazilian musical landscape." VICTOR HUGO GUITTA (La Nación).

With Ruben Izarrualde and Andrés Laprida [enlarge] With Anne Finn and Miguel Uriburu [enlarge]

"Agustin Pereyra Lucena gave us the attractive intimacy of his guitar in the course of an eloquent presentation. Between bossa nova and jazz, our guitarist captured all the attention with his sense of rhythm and his precise harmonics. Pereyra Lucena killing strings is a phenomenon, and his inclusion in the Mar del Plata Jazz Festival was a success that must be repeated in all future". OSCAR DE SIMONE (El Cronista Comercial).

Agustín with Guillermo Reuter [enlarge]

ABOUT THE RECORD WITH NANA VASCONCELLOS: "It is worthwhile to detain oneself in the performance of Pereyra Lucena he does not try to reflect a school... With Nana he performs a savage counterpoint, a harmonic-rhythmic unity that reminds one of the achievements of Ravi Shankar-Alan Raccka." (Primera Plana)