24 octubre 2006

Concierto en La Laguna (Tenerife) 4 de noviembre

Contradanza presentará su última grabación "Meridional" en el programa de Pensar en Poesía en Canarias - III Congreso de Poesía Canaria - La Laguna en Poesía.
Esto será el sábado día 4 de noviembre en la Ermita de San Miguel (La Laguna) a las 21,30 horas. Previamente a las 20,00 h. actuará Cali Fernández

Podeís consultar la web en
www.cultura-lalaguna.org/cult36_content.html

11 octubre 2006

Concierto en el Corral del Carbón (Granada) 22 Octubre

Ultimo Aviso: El concierto se ha pospuesto por las previsiones meteorológicas. Mas adelante informaremos de la nueva fecha

En el marco del Ciclo Música en los Monumentos de la Delegación de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía concierto de Contradanza en el Corral del Carbón, en Granada el domingo día 22 de octubre a las 12,30 del mediodía.
El Corral del Carbón es un monumento del siglo XIV,la única alhóndiga hispanoárabe conservada en su integridad en la Península Ibérica. Fue construido bajo el dominio de los nazaríes y su nombre original era Al-Funduq al-Gidida, o Alhóndiga Nueva.

05 octubre 2006

Reseña en CD Roots

Meridional en CD Roots
Roots related music from Andalucía does not necessarily mean flamenco: Ricardo de Castro & co. merge quite naturally their multiple musical and stylish influences and experiences which go from flamenco to jazz and from classical music to folk music from all over the world in an album with a strong "Southern" taste. With their particular vision of that universal language called "folk", they tell stories and describe vital feelings and impressions in the way the best singers & songwriters do.
They manage to sound strangely familiar: their music is different from most of what you might have heard, but at the same time catches your attentive and sensitive ear with ease.
In ´Meridional´ you are exposed to intimate feelings and poetry in some moments, and in others are invited to party and move to earthy rhythms. You can discover a new understanding and new versions of the Spanish "Romancero" (the medieval songbook/balladry of Jewish-Arabic-Christian Spain) and the Andalusian musical traditions in songs like "Las doce palabras", "Coplas de San Juan" or "Nana de la luna", but also in the genuine compositions of the band which are conceived in a similar line, based on lyrics of the New Spanish Poetry (Javier Egea, Pablo García Conde) which talk about the melancholy of the lost of love ("Las afueras" – ´the outskirts of town´), the permanent stain of absent love ("Dixán", the name of a detergent) or the search for oneselve´s inner world ("Quién entra en la casa?" - ´who enters my home?´). The songwriter Ricardo de Castro leaves himself and us alone with his existentialist question in "El año del cometa" (´the year of the comet´): "Where will you put me once I´m not here anymore?"
In a pan-Mediterranean spirit, the recording features the Italian drummer Stefanno di Rubbo, the Morrocan ud-player Amin Chachoo and Belén Bautista, singer of the the serphardic group Aljama.
Contradanza´s previous recording, ´Mar de Fondo´ (Fusionart – Galileo MC), released 3 years ago, received outstanding reviews in the specialized press all over Europe and was presented live on a big number of folk and worldmusic festivals.
"They go ahead with self confidence on that slippery way which approaches them to the folkmusic of their homeland, without repeating the commonly used flamenco turns, employing direct references to the Penguin Café Orchestra and Celtic music." -Miquel Jurado (El País)

01 octubre 2006

Nana de la Luna

El tema "La Nana de la Luna" incluido en el CD Meridional ha sido utilizado como música de soporte de la Campaña de promoción de Andalucía como escenario para cine por la Andalucía Film Commission