Ricardo Garcia - composer and guitarist....
Carlos Otero - Flamenco dance, cante and percussion....
Claire Marchand - Flamenco dance, cante, palmas....
Emma Smith - double bass....
Neil Cameron - double bass....
Chris Ross - jazz drums....
Toby Shippey (Edinburgh Fringe) Latin percussion and trumpet....
Nico Major - hip hop dancer, webiste designer, graphics (CD, website, publicity) genius....
Neil Sowerby - Lights, sound, recording, computer support and great guy!
Influences
INFLUENCES: Paco de Lucia, Tomatito, Manolo Sanlucar, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny,Tione Mwera
Sounds Like
.. CDBABY LINK for RICARDO GARCIA: Flamenco con Fusion
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Flamenco with a world feel - influences from Indian and African music, arrangements for hip hop dance!
or....*Scottish CD and MP3 music -
Scotloads Music Website........................
RICARDO GARCIA:
Of Andalucian origin, Ricardo's family left for France during the Franco years. Flamenco was a way of holding on to roots and the whole family was brought up within the tradition: Ricardo learning guitar from his uncle Antonio from a very young age and later performing with his aunt, Ana Maria, brothers and cousins. His mother, Maria del Carmen is an excellent singer and he accompanied her from an early age. His father, Dionisio, encouraged him and bullied him alternately as a child, making sure he practised regularly and taking the whole family back to his village near Sevilla every summer in order to experience first hand the music and soul of the region.
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Ricardo's first public performance was at the age of nine and he has played regularly in public ever since. He continued to perform both solo and with his aunt and uncle in numerous concerts throughout France and in 1988 he was chosen to represent France culturally on a tour around Uruguay and Argentina, sponsored by the Casa de America Latina. Whilst still a student he performed in the Zenith in Paris fronting a Pat Metheny concert, which inspired him to incorporate jazz into his repertoire.
Between the ages of 15 and 18 he attended flamenco masterclasses with Merengue de Cordoba, Paco Serrano and Jose Antonio Rodrigues Munoz. His studies with his uncle and on various intensive residential guitar courses focussed heavily on classical guitar at this stage and the three cornerstones to his personal style are flamenco, classical and jazz.
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Ricardo acknowledges his debt to masters such as Paco de Lucia and Tomatito, the great masters of guitar in flamenco today.
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Ricardo worked in Malawi, Africa for eight years before returning to Europe and settling in Spain, in Barcelona in 1999. The years in Malawi brought him into contact with many other musicians and again widened his repertoire to incorporate African rhythms as well as Asian. He worked especially with Aaron Sangala and the late, great Tione Mwera. A creative collaboration with a sitar player, Bimal Lohd resulted in several excellent concerts. With Aaron Sangala and Bashir Sacranie Ricardo was a founder member of the group Kalulu, mentioned in The Rough Guide to Music in Africa. Both solo and in cooperation with others, Ricardo frequently performed at the French Cultural centre, The British Council and the University of Malawi.
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Returning to Europe in 1999, Ricardo settled in Barcelona and continues to travel mainly between Spain, France and Scotland to perform, although he has also performed in Cambodia, New Jersey (a residency at The State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ), Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Cape Town, Paris, San Francisco, England and Ireland recently.
2007 will be the seventh Fringe in Edinburgh for Ricardo and he has brought some excellent musicians within his "Familia Flamenca" in the past four years: the idea is to continue to develop the music and bring the Edinburgh audience some surprising and impressive fusions: an original and innovative slant on the genre - reflecting the rich background of the performers and the intelligent discernment of the audience.
Ricardo Garcia Flamenco Flow's Friend Space (Top 37)
Sonido inetrnaciona y La Pachacuty Flamenco Style unen fuerzas y desarrollan un “Concierto Simbiótico” 2x1.
Manu, cantante de Sonido Internacional y Miguelito el Cordobe, llevan años trabajando en un repertorio con nombre propio: LA PACHACUTY FLAMENCO STYLE. Ahora en el directo de SONIDO INTERNACIONAL, con Miguel el Cordobé como invitado estelar (al cante y la guitarra española), las canciones de LPFS empiezan a tomar forma y son disparadas como balas enérgicas a través del potente y contundente repertorio de SI. No pierdas la oportunidad de disfrutar de este CONCIERTO SIMBIÓTICO donde el "cante jondo" se mezcla con reggae,cumbia, rumba, ska, ect…
(con permiso, les dejo por aki el cartelillo del concierto) NAiKE + ALBERTO FUNES + JUAN DEBEL el 5 de Julio a las 23:30 en SOUL STATION (Madrid) www.juandebel.blogspot.com + info del concierto: tresvocestres@hotmail.com
Participa antes del 14 de junio y podrás llevarte dos noches de hotel, una comida para dos personas e invitaciones y entradas para asistir a las proyecciones del Festival de Granada Cines del Sur 2009. Te regalamos un fin de semana de cine en Granada.
El circo vuelve a la vida y te llevamos a que lo disfrutes. Participa antes del 9 de junio y llévate una de las tres entradas dobles para la gala de Circada TNTSevilla que sorteamos. Quizá ya no haya leones domados, elefantes que bailen claqué, pero el redoble de tambores no ha desaparecido. ¡Únete a él!
¡Conviértete en el Rey del Territorio! Participa antes del 22 de mayo y dominarás Territorios Sevilla. Una entrada doble para los tres días del Festival Internacional de la Música de los Pueblos en Sevilla puede ser tuya.
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Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Ricardo! sigue como va,con tu guitarra y tu duende.Aqui estamos todos bien,tengo una amiga que se llama laura. Besos a julie y te escribo desde sarah. Te quiero tu tia ANA MARIA
UN REGALITO... PODEIS DESCARGAR EL NUEVO VIDEOCLIP DE KOSKILLEO "Gracia", HOMENAJE A LOS MAESTROS DE LA RUMBA URBANA MESTIZA DE BARCELONA, EN www.koskilleo.com ¡¡¡ABRAZOS!!!
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