Jesse Cook, Cascada ( Rumba Flamenco Guitar Music)

Jesse Cook, Cascada (Rumba Flamenco Guitar Music) Long before the albums, the bands, the concert halls, and the touring, there was a humble three song demo, recorded at my home with percussionist Mario Melo, and bassist Andres Morales, on a cassette tapebased 4 track recorder (yes, those are the versions that ended up on the album). This week I revisited one of those songs: Cascada. This is back in 1994, and I had met someone who said they had an in at Sony Music Canada. So I wrote Tempest, Breeze from Saintes Maries, and this song: Cascada, packaged them up in an awkward looking cassette tape (yes, that was still a thing in 1994), and sent them off to Sony. Sony politely passed on the project, perhaps understandably, as record execs weren t exactly lining up to sign guys playing weird spanish guitar mixed with world music. But it didn t really matter, because by then I was on my way. With three songs done, I thought how much more work would it be to do a whol