DRD was created for a series of concerts called Folk de Cámara (Chamber Folk Music) in 2003. DRD perform a mixture of traditional dance music and songs, and on a mixture of Asturian traditional instruments such as flute and fiddle, as well as on guitar and bouzouki.
DRD recorded their first album "Namái" in 2005 (with guest Irish piper, Jarlath Henderson). It was nominated in the category of Best Folk Album of the Year for AMAS Award and for "Premios de la Música" Award in the categories of Best Breakthrough artist, Best Traditional Album, Best Folk Song (for Mañena), and Rubén Bada for Best Producer (in Namái) and Sergio Rodríguez for Best recording technician (in Namái).
In 2008 their second cd came out!. The album was nominated for AMAS Award in the category of Best Folk Album of the Year and some tunes are included in the soundtrack of the television series "Doctor Mateo", the Spanish version of "Doc Martin" which premiered in Antena 3 with an average audience of just over 4.5 million viewers.
They also appear in compilations like "New Folk, Roots and Traditional Music from Northern Ireland" published by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission, "37è Festival Interceltique de Lorient" the official cd of this famous festival and in other albums with Asturian singers like Mari Luz Cristobal Caunedo or Toli Morilla.
In 2005, they were awarded by the Spanish Youth Council. For that, they was playing in a series of high profile concerts all around Spain. Since then, they toured over Portugal, Brittany, Ireland, Germany... playing in the best festivals and auditoriums.
Members
BORJA BARAGAÑO (wooden flutes).
He's one of the most appreciated and respected flute player of Asturies. Borja plays (and teaches) Asturian bagpipes too and he is the pipe major of Asturian pipe bands "Mieres del Camín" and "La Viga Travesá". He also plays in the celtic band Llangres.
DOLFU R. FERNÁDEZ (fiddle, vocals).
He's a fiddler who has been working within the Asturian traditional music scene for more than ten years. Dolfu's mother family were singers and he adapts this singing style to his own fiddling. Dolfu has also contributed in a constructive way to the rebirth of the Asturian fiddle tradition. He currently divides his time between playing with La Bandina’l Tombo and Llangres and teaching music and Asturian language in the Primary School.
RUBÉN BADA (bouzouki, guitar, fiddle).
He's an important part of the Asturian music scene. In fact, in 2006 Rubén was awarded "Best Instrumentalist" in the Asturian Music Awards '05. Currently, he's part of the Irish scene too, playing with John Mcsherry and Dónal O'Connor's "At First Light" band touring all over the World.
Reviews
"DRD - TTT [which means it's a very good album]. A joyful and exuberant album" Philippe Cousin, Chroniques. Trad Magazine
"A sparkling music as cider -Asturian national drink- celebrated in song Moxeca." Philippe Cousin, Musiques de Celtie. Le Peuple Breton
"DRD: Air for the future. DRD offer a contemporary reading in line with other big bands of Celtic Europe from the Asturian musical tradition . A line in which the nudity is merely formal condition of an intense music, exciting and true." Ignaciu Llope, Anuariu de la Música Asturiana
"DRD is one of the most prominent names in the Asturian scene. They reinterpret the traditional music of this land in a very attractive way"
"They're three of the best folk musicians in Asturies. Simple instruments with complex arrangements. Traditional rhythms with a new air" Agenda Fnac '09
"The 10 best albums of the year: DRD - DRD: Good taste, good work and feeling" Ramon Lluis Bande. Les Noticies
"A trio who recovers hidden themes of popular music to be presented with an elegant package" José Cezón. El Comercio.
"(DRD is) one of the most innovative formations of the Asturian folk scene". Victor Rodriguez, Agenda Fnac.
"In Asturies there are new formations of a high artistic quality. Between them an emphasized place occupies the trio DRD". Emilio Españadero, El Correo Gallego.
"(DRD) are an exciting and innovative new voice in European folk music". Kieran Gilmore, 7th Open House Festival.
"DRD is an acoustic trio that breaks schemes with a harmonic unusual texture and an expressionist contrast sound. Elegant and meticulous work". Maria Pidal, El Comercio.
"(Namái) is an excellent cd, of personal, unmistakably Asturian sound and that opens the way of these bands of few musicians and simple instrumentation but with great inspiration and sonorous power". Xune Elipe, Anuariu de la Música Asturiana.
"(Namái is) sweet, almost aromatic … definitively, too nice". Miguel Ángel Martínez, Murciafolk.com
DRD playing in Avilés, Asturies at Beltaine - Avilés Intercélticu (2009)
Ufiertamos una primicia del nueu discu de Dixebra "Amor incendiariu". El tema que vais poder escuchar a partir de güei nel nuesu myspace oficial entitúlase "De Prau", un ska de temática folixera onde tienen collaborao Marga Lorences a la curdión y Toño Gómez al trombón. D'otra miente, esti adelantu tamién va tar incorporáu na edición d'esta selmana del periódicu Les Noticies.
Este jueves 29 a las 22hs presentamos en el Savoy (c/pelayo 2 - Gijon) temas de lo que va a ser nuestro nuevo cd "RETRATOS Y AUSENCIAS" junto con algunos de nuestros temas del primer disco. Si les apetece pasar, los esperamos!!
El prósimu domingu 1 de payares pela nueche Dixebra va facer el conciertu presentación del so décimu discu "Amor incendiariu". Nel eventu el grupu va interpretar dellos de los temes del so repertoriu habitual y muchos de los cantares inxertáos nel nueu trabayu discográficu. Por mor de la lo especial d'esti conciertu, el grupu va cuentar cola collaboración de dellos músicos convidaos como Lisardo Prieto al vigulín (Felpeyu), Toño Gómez al trombón (La Bandina) y DJ Pin colos platos (Campeón estatal de Scratch).
Esa mesma nueche quién tea interesáu podrá mercar en primicia una copia de "Amor incendiariu" así como les nueves camisetes del grupu. D'otra miente, la data va ser tamién una perbona oportunidá pa escuchar al gran tocador de cora Toumani Diabaté.
Thanks so much for the Add, your nice comment–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Obrigada Dolfu pelo teu comentário! Fico contente por sentires assim a minha musica. Vocês são musicos muito bons e talvez vos veja aqui em Lisboa um dia! Muito bom trabalho para todos e um abraço amigo para ti! Luisa
Na prósima selamana tres son los conciertos onde se va a poder ver a Dixebra en direutu:
La primer cita sedrá'l 20 de xunetu nel Parque L'Oeste d'Uviéu nos Alcuentros de Trebolgu onde tamién van tar la bandina La Curuxa y el gaiteru escocés Fred Morrison. Según la organización esta va ser la última edición d'esti festival uvieín que lleva funcionando yá diez años. Per otru llau, dempués de dellos años ensin tocar ellí y col enfotu de recuperar los bonos años que vivió esti eventu añal, actuaremos na foguera de San Xuan de Trasona. Pa finar la selmana y el mes taremos nel Castrillón Solidariu'l vienres 26
Thank you for connecting! If you're interested, I'm offering one free original MP3 download to my new MySpace friends, just let me know the name of which track would you like to get and I'll tell you where to download it for free.
Que gran música la vuestra! y que bonita tierra la Asturiana, por suerte nosotros tenemos una pequeña parte de ella representada en nuestra violinista Lena... Salut!!!
