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For those still unaware, Colombian-born guitarist Daniel Pinilla announces Single-Handed (due out July 10th, 2026), a solo guitar album that explores the instrument as a complete musical environment. Rather than treating the guitar as a reduced ensemble, Pinilla approaches it as a self-sufficient voice, capable of sustaining melody, harmony, rhythm, and form within a single, continuous musical fabric.

Listening to Joe Pass, George Van Eps, and Johnny Smith, Pinilla was struck not only by the beauty of their sound but by the mystery of how they made it happen. That curiosity became a discipline. Learning their techniques gave him both comfort and confidence and gradually shaped his identity as a musician.

On his first two albums, he included solo performances that were entirely improvised in the moment, with little pre-arrangement. He wanted to experience the act of “making it happen” in real time. Over the years, that instinct developed into a more deliberate exploration of form, pacing, and architecture.

Single-Handed grew from a simple but demanding idea: to treat the solo guitar not as a reduced ensemble, but as a complete musical environment. Each performance seeks to carry melody, harmony, motion, and pacing simultaneously, not as separate layers, but as a continuous fabric. The title also reflects the production process: this album was recorded and produced independently, another form of single-handed responsibility.

1. Eronel
2. April in Paris
3. Countdown
4. Beatrice
5. Canto de Xangô
6. Luiza
7. All or Nothing at All
8. Eyes of the Valley

The extremely versatile and inquisitive guitarist and composer opens his new recording on the beautifully luxuriant ebb and flow of Eronel and the ________ of April in Paris, and then we get the ______________ of Beatrice and the _________________ of Beatrice.

Along next is the _________ of Canto de Xangô which is itself backed seamlessly by the decadently supple Luiza, the new set rounding out on the _______________ of All or Nothing at All, coming to an all-too-soon close on the _____________ of Eyes of the Valley.

“The sound of the record was intentionally intimate,” Pinilla says. “I wanted the guitar to feel close and authentic, warm but honest, so that the sound of the instrument itself could still be heard. I imagined the listener seated within the same room, as if the music was unfolding just a few feet away.” To preserve that sense of immediacy, the performances were recorded in complete takes without edits or assembly, allowing the natural flow, vulnerability, and risk of solo playing to remain audible.

“This album is not intended as a display of difficulty,” he continues, “but as a study in musical responsibility, to the tune, to the instrument, to time itself, and to the listener.”

Official Purchase Link

www.danielpinillaortizmusic.com