Antonio Vega: Deep Cuts

Hidden inside this melancholy Spaniard's catalogue lie tributes to mentors such as the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose emotional convolutions inform much of Vega’s work, and the Catalan and Spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat. Vega set his own standards of melancholic introspection during the '70s as a guiding spirit of the Madrid Scene, and world-weary sadness became his defining quality.