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More than two meters of humanity.
And thousands of kilometers traveled by this great music in the history of jazz.
In the history of the pianist and composer, Randy Weston, occupy an important place Gnaoua Morocco and musicians.
The Gnaoua belong to the religious brotherhood that were descendants of black slaves arrived in Morocco from sub-Saharan regions, converted to Islam, and has its main focus in the city of Marrakech.
It is believed that many of their ceremonies, with trance music, serve to placate the spirits that take over the bodies.
Blues is that he referred to Gnaoua Randy Weston after discovering a common spirituality and oppressed minorities in the Diaspora.
Randy Weston's African Rhytms & The Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco serve Artillery Park at 23:00 am Wednesday 22 July.
Tickets cost 12 Euros.
Earlier, in the Town Hall Square Other electronic tango Aires.
The relationship of Randy Weston (New York, 1926) with North African music comes from old.
Already, in the late fifties, the arranger and composer Melba Liston him into the secrets of the African musical traditions.
And in 1967, after a long tour of Africa, Weston settled in Tangier.
There he founded a cultural center and even became a festival.
His father, Frank Edward Weston, a cook, was the one who spoke of African civilizations and the writings of Marcus Garvey.
He repeated the little Randy was an African born in America and that some day return to Mother Earth.
And the son has not been the opposite: just inside the African continent knew that this was his home and that his people.
While other jazz musicians went to Europe, he traveled to Africa.
Once said that if you take away the African element to the samba, bossa nova, blues or jazz, do not have nothing.
At 83, rock steady, still traveling with traditional Moroccan musicians.
Since the sixties has not stopped playing with them.
Piano singing, 'Guembri' three-stringed lute-long-neck-and 'caraqueb' or 'Falcons'-double metal castanets.
Jazz bathed in the melisma and hypnotic loops of music teachers Gnau, who have the belief that each of us carries a color-that of Randy would be the blue-and a note that makes us tick.
His album 'The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco', recorded on September 17, 1992 in the light of the candles in the famous hotel La Mamounia, was nominated for a Grammy.
Bringing together old masters on a disk Gnaoua was a dream of Randy and Abdellah El Gourd, who was the first he recorded several guembris gnaui together.
He called nine teachers of Tangier, Marrakech, Casablanca, Sale and Essaouira.
Some of them had not seen for forty years.
Ever, it is known in the history of the Gnau, had played together for ten guembris.
A miracle.
Months later, two of those venerable teachers, the elderly, had died.
Another Weston discs in this case, piano solo, is entitled 'Marrakech in the cool of the evening'.
Fan of Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington, also cites among his heroes piano Count Basie, Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, Randy Weston today prefer to talk about music and impromptu and not use the term jazz.
OTHER AIRES
From the Rio de la Plata to the Barceloneta, and the shores of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Catalan Argentina, with a project named by Otros Aires and self-defined as archaeological-mail (or electronic audiovisual).
A Spanish developer, tired of hearing in Buenos Aires examples without personality pervasive electronic tango, found a balm in this quartet.
And is determined to bring to Spain.
Back would have to say, because the first performance of Otros Aires took place in Barcelona.
In December 2003.
So were a trio and presented in small clubs.
Toni Cubedo, bass, and Josep Lluis Guart, piano, accompanied Miguel Di Genova, Argentine architect and musician who was guessed how to mix tango and milonga recordings from the early twentieth century, the aesthetics of Buenos Aires in the old quarters of the time Gardel with immigrants from diverse cultures, letters and electronic sequences today.
In mid 2004, in Buenos Aires, and Hugo Satorre (bandoneon), Pablo Lasala (piano, keyboards) and Manu Mayol (drums and percussion), Miguel Di Genova (vocals, guitar, programming and samples) put together a first album entitled "Otros Aires" which premiered on December 11-Tango-Day in the Museo Casa Carlos Gardel.
Two years later, Omar Massa rather than Satorre and Diego Ramos replacing Lasala, the quartet recorded 'Two', with works like "Another Night In The Chip" or "Niebla del Riachuelo."
On the cover of 'Two' can read that "is a electronic feel of the neighborhood, the milonga, dance and rhythm of the tango classic.
Otros Aires shows once again his vision of sound art absolutely porteña XXI century. "
The latest album is titled "Living in Other Aires ': ten songs themselves as' Broken in the Raval 'or' Allerdings Otros Aires 'but also' Barrio de tango" de Anibal Troilo and Homero Manzi ", recorded in November 2007 at the ND Ateneo de Buenos Aires, and three recorded in Antwerp, Padua and Amsterdam.
The three discs are distributed here Otros Aires by Galileo MC.
On the stamp say "Take that of Otros Aires" is the most common recommendation from the labels of Buenos Aires, customers interested in a hard to get started in electronic tango.
Otros Aires, just give three concerts in Chicago, will have visited Berlin, Milan, Prague, Dublin and Bucharest in the weeks before his arrival in Cartagena.
His influences have names: Carlos Gardel, Osvaldo Pugliese, Gotan Project, Bajofondo ...
And if allowed a pun, yes they are different, but they are good.
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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