| Fabienne MAGNANT studied
the guitar with Olivier Chassain and Roland Dyens. She also studied
traditional percussions in Brazil. She is now exploring the Spanish
provinces. So, she plays three different guitars : the classical
guitar, the flamenco guitar and the "viola ca�pira" (from
Brazil).
Her compositions of uncommon intensity blend the classical universe of the guitar with her South American and Spanish extrapolations. With her very personnal way of playing and composing, she takes us along the subtle spheres of an unknown universe. Fabienne Magnant borrows from all musical styles without ever adopting one, and refuses to belong to any school whatsoever. Discography: Le sens des sens and 2 others.
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Erick Manana is not only
one of the Red Island's most talented and innovative guitar players,
but also a prolific song writer of notable integrity. He has often
been labelled the "Malagasy Bob Dylan", but the comparison
is weak. There may be similarities in the way Dylan and Manana are
received in their respective hemispheres, but their musical
approaches, their characters and their personalities are quite
different. In spite of a pronounced masculine appearance and a
natural authority both in conversation and on stage, Erick maintains
an humble attitude towards his own importance and prefers to emphasize
the significant influence of his idol on his musical development.
Manana's repertoire gracefully alternates between lyric ballads and
pop tunes with irresistibly wild and intricate rhythms and a grateful
audience responds enthusiastically to every tone and syllable. Discography: Ramano (with Feo-Gasy), Taniko, Vakoka |
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He was born in Posadas, Argentina - concert performer, composer, musicologist and general practitioner. Certainly
the most prolific composer of Latin America ; his compositions are
played all around the world. He recorded
more than twenty CD and composed more than 350 compositions, as well
for guitars alone, as for duets, trios, quartets, quintets and
concerti. His compositions were recorded
by more than 80 artists. He
is used to international meetings and festivals, radio and
television programmes. Jorge
Cardoso is the founder of the Guitar Chamber Orchestra of Madrid.
The regular visitors of the festival have already admired Jorge
Cardoso at the time of the second and third festivals.
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The
music of this group will seduce you sometimes by his impetuous and
powerful rhythm and sometimes by
monotonous and delicate rhythm. This alive and coloured music tells a
story, that of the Andes Cordillera, Latin America, played with ancestral
instruments such as Quena, Sampo�a, Tarkas (flutes in reed), Charango
(tiny very powerful string instrument), Bombo and various percussions.
They knew how to create, by a subtle mixture with the guitars, a pure and
very elaborated style which made of Puna one of the only groups to propose
a representative repertoire of all the regions of this continent, from
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia,
Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to the Caribbean. This group is composed of six high level, virtuosos and creative musicians. You will be delighted with the quality and the beauty of this music ! |
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Norberto
PEDREIRA is a guitarist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is interested
very early in the popular musics and the folklore of Latin America but
also in flamenco then with the jazz. He forms a first trio before settling
in France at the beginning of the 1990�s. Parallel to his work of
interpreter with C�sar Stroscio, Olivier Manoury, Ra�l Barboza or Hayd�e
Alba, he creates his own formations and compositions. "The meeting with Bobby Rangell (saxophone and flutes), Jean Wellers and Pablo Mendez represents for me a new port of arrival and of departure�. This voyage started in Buenos Aires in the 1980�s. Because perhaps of the historical circumstances which were ours, the young people of my generation felt the need to recognize us in a Latin-American identity. After many years of subtly imposed foreign music, a new cultural and musical movement was born : while assuming the influences coming from the North and Europe, we started to give new garments to our music. We sought to express us in a current language, that of the time which was ours, without losing our roots. The situation of my country at the beginning of the 1990�s led me to continue this creative process in Paris, nourished by the cultural diversity that I found there. The first stopover of this voyage was the foundation of Cuarteto Encuentro, in 1995. The second was the creation of Norberto Pedreira Trio, three years later. Today, this new Meeting has just left the port." Norberto
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Playing
in a square of musical Argentinas, Peruvian, Uruguyan and Brazilian
references, the repertory composed by the guitarist Norberto Pedreira
has the (great) merit to leave the typical circle of repetitions. Far from the stereotypes, he uses the rhythms of candombe, zamba, or lando to play a different music, very structured, which tells well the subtlety and the musical intelligence, during the eighties, in the south of Ecuador. "Le monde de la musique" Discography: Viajes, Otras Im�gines |
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Discography: Jongo l�, Varal, Bagagem, Brasil Viol�o, Mist�rios do Rio Lento
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MAYA was born in Grenada in 1960 in the Flamenco atmosphere of the
caves of Scomonte and in the famous district of the Albaizin where he
grew up. Antonio MAYA belongs to the "Los Cotorreros", a
family of flamenco tradition since four generations. When he was 17
years old, he became professional as the first guitarist of a company
which got the first prize of musical theater in Japan. He improves his
art with the contact of various Spanish artists in several European
tours and in Japan, where he recorded two albums. Then, he became a
composer. After several concerts throughout France, he has decided to
stay there in order to continue his musical studies in Paris. Punctually,
he goes on working with Spanish artists in his native region of
Andalusia as part of the summer festivals. Discography: Last Summer, Salom� (Japan), Granada Baila por Tangos (Granada), Mix Culture, Guitarras en Sevilla |
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Photo : Juan Garcia |
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Discography: Colombia |
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Fabienne
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