“I find it hard to put my music in any one category,” says Garca. “It feels like trying to put the sea in a box – it just over-

‘Wonderland’ is the Daniel Garca Trio’s third album on ACT. And whereas the previous albums ‘Travesuras’ (2019) and ‘Va de la Plata’ (2021) were still characterized by clear influences from flamenco and traditional Spanish music, Garca has now cast his net wider. There are flamenco borrowings on ‘Wonderland’, but they are more subtle and sit alongside a whole range of inspirations from modern jazz, classical music, pop, together with influences from the Caribbean and the Middle East. At the same time, ‘Wonderland’ is also about the inner search: Daniel Garca quotes Swiss psychologist Carl Jung in the liner notes: ‘Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.’ Garca invites his listeners to explore their own feelings and thoughts – in ‘this secret haven where our deep-est illusions and most fervent hopes resid