Tools for Tales, Xavier Padilla's first record as a leader, is still waiting for a free, discerning and non stereotype-dependant label to get it out. It includes 32 musicians and consists of 15 originals (76 minutes). Xavier played electric bass, composed and arranged all the music. He produced it and recorded it in Paris, at Studio Labroue in Saint-Germain-des-Pres. List of credits:
Drums: Luis Augusto Cavani, Andre Ceccarelli, Daniel García Bruno, Iannis Stavropoulos, David Pouradier-Duteil, Stephane Lambotte.
Percussion: Gustavo Ovalles, Anga Díaz, Joel "Pibo" Márquez, Orlando Poleo, Luís Viloria, Rafael Mejías, Minino Garay.
Trumpet: Tony Russo, Nicolas Folmer, Philippe Slominski, Christian Martínez.
Sax: Thierry Farrougia, Allen Hoist, Cacau Queiroz, Leandro Guffanti, Pablo Gil.
Flute: Pierre Mimran, Bobby Rangell.
Piano: Julio Font, Mario Canonge, Vihn Lee, Frederic Gallardet, Franklin Lozada.
Guitar: Roldan Peña, Michael Felberbaum, and Xavier Padilla (on Water Call)
Influences
Xavier says: "I'm interested in everything, but especially good music, made by real people. I'm also interested, well... "concerned" may be a better word, about the uncertain times our world is now going through: many things are plainly wrong and we should be doing something about it. I think the best way is that everybody (... well, that isn't obviously going to happen, but 'say at least "as many humans as possible") use common sense now: we just can't keep killing nature, children and polluting the air under any circumstance anymore. There is nothing (NOTHING) out there that justifies such an outrageous nonsense. The world can't endure anymore our worthless apologies upon killing and destroying. We have, or should have already learned from past eras and great men and women how to live in harmony; yeah, we have been given the opportunity. But logically THE time has arrived: either we prove the right behaviour now, or we'll loose everything for always. This is not a mystic prophecy, it's pure math folks. What a shame that we are at such a large extinction risk when the world is richer than it has ever been..."
============================= As for INFLUENCES: "...we should remember what the great Argentinean poet and thinker Antonio Porchía once said, "no one is a light of him(her)self, not even the sun". Influences are everywhere, and it's important to understand that an artist is never influenced exclusively by other artists of the same art form, nor even by artists exclusively. I've been influenced, besides nature and other meaningful things on this planet, by all sorts of people, like (here it goes): my father Fernando Padilla Arteaga, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar "El Cid Campeador", Simón Bolívar, Jesus, Socrates, Lao-tze, Antonio Porchía, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pico de la Mirandola, Alan Watts, Carol King, Johan Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinski, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Alí Primera, Bill Evans, Bethoven, Israel López "Cachao", George Carlin, Barry Rogers, Claudio Arrau, Bruce Lee, Jaco Pastorius, Dario Deidda, Voltaire, Papo Pepín, Leroi Jones, Honoré de Balzac, Marie-Henri Beyle "Stendhal", Pablo Picasso, Paul McCartney, César Vallejo, Jean-Pierre Petit, Bill Bruford, Chick Corea, Malcom X, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nicolo Paganini, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, Don Alias, Andrea del Sarto, El "Pavo" Frank, John Locke, Thelonius Monk, Ricardo Hernández, Samuel Moncada, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Eduardo Requena, Vasilis Saltikis, Bobby Rodríguez, Jean Ziegler, Marvin Santiago, Heraclitus, Chopin, Simón Díaz, Derrida, Carles Benavent, Mahatma Gandhi, Lester Young, Muhammad Ali, Yannis Stavropoulos, Ray Barreto, Andrés Segovia, Orlando "El Diablo" Blanco, Miguel de Unamuno, Héctor Lavoe, Shadia Drury, Raúl Bolívar, Chris Squire, Joaquín Trincado, "Joselo", Charlie Chaplin, Benoit Vanderstraeten, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Berinboim, Nikos Pipinelis, Rowan Atkinson, Rodrigo Mendoza, Dieudoné, Nathan East, Sexto Empírico, Joan Manuel Serrat, Octavio Cabrera, Charles Mingus, Bartolomeo de las Casas, Ellis Regina, Manolo Badrena, Iván Herrera, Antonio Lauro, Miles Davis, Eddie Palmieri, John Scofield, Eduardo Galeano, Zorro's horse "Tornado", Jeff Berlin, Stevie Wonder, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Marley, José Ortega y Gasset, Clifford Brown, James Jammerson, Linley Marthe, Django Reinhardt, Plato, Félix Suárez, Buster Williams, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Michael C. Ruppert, Ricardo Chitty, Pat Martino, Eddie Gómez, Camille Flammarion, Jerry González, Dante Alighieri, John McLaughlin, Jesús "Chucho" Manzanares, Juan José Benítez, José "Patúo" Velázquez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Mauricio Silva, Jorge Luís Borges, Pandelis Benetatos, Duke Ellington, Marcolino Dimond, Guy Williams, Paul Chambers, Oscar D'León, Jerome Little, Antonio Alcalá, Batacumbele, Luisito Quintero, Astor Piazzola, Dave Holland, Néstor Pérez, Francisco de Miranda, Profesor Eduardo ("Lupa") Rotte, Tito Allen, Jeff Gardner, Michael Moore, Bireli Lagrene, Johny Pacheco, Henri Bergson, Michael Berti, Diógenes Laercio, Noam Chomsky, Paco Sery, Carl Gustav Jung, Octavio Cabrera, Hadrien Feraud, Alirio Díaz, Joni Mitchell, Edmund Husserl, Simón Rodríguez, Elvin Jones, Marcia Maria, Rafael Sanzio, Frank Zappa, Renoir, Allan Kardec, Nicky Marrero, Felipe "Mandingo" Rengifo, Oscar Peterson, Friedrich Nietzche, Alex acuña, Egberto Gismonti, Otmaro Ruiz, Joe Pass, horse "Seabiscuit", Eddie Martínez, Benito Mieses, Ray Brown, Didier Loubere, Jimmie Hendrix, Aldous Huxley, Lee Smith (bassist with Mongo Santamaría), Hank Jones, Lorenzo "El Diablo" Barriendos, George Galloway, McCoy Tyner, Domenico Dragonetti, Pat Metheny, Max Roach, Soha, Jimmy Garrison, Diana Krall, Henry Miller, Edgar "Dolor" Quijada, Rostropovich, Rubén Blades, Jean-Michel Pilc, Pablo Neruda, Pharoa Sanders, Mozart, Javier Darío Restrepo, Mike Stern, Bobby Valentín, Christel Seval, Louis Armstrong, Scott Ritter, Andy González, Albert Einstein, Rafael Correa, Allan Holdsworth, Julio Font, Eddie "Guagua" Rivera, Emmanuel Kant, Aldemaro Romero, Joe Zawinul, Salvador Cuevas, Billie Holiday, Pablo García, Antonio "Yeci" Ramos, Tania Maria, Charles Bukowski, Hermeto Pascoal, Aristófanes, Michael Brecker, Terry Bozzio, Ismael Rivera, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Robert Fripp, Miguel de Cervantes, Goethe, Carlos Gardel, Richard Bona, Victor Hugo, Mongo Santamaría, Richard Feynman, Francisco Pacheco, Bunny Brunel, Gerardo Rosales, Paco de Lucía, Arturo Michelena, Scott Thunes, Domenico Scarlatti, Wayne Shorter, Jair Oliveira, Marcus Miller, Eric Harland, Karl Marx, Jimmy Sabater, Sigmund Freud, West Montgomery, Alexander Kobrin, Cheo Feliciano, Giovanni Bottesini, Nat King Cole, Maurice Ravel, Sungha Jung..."
Sounds Like
I can't say what it would sound like to you, for me it sounds like what I hear in my head. A friend told me it would most probably sound to anyone like music...
Bass player, composer and arranger, XAVIER PADILLA was born in Caracas, Venezuela, then established in Europe in 1988. Early experiences in Venezuela include award wining group AUTANA. He lived five years in Germany, four in Greece and now lives in France, since 1997. His own approach as a player and composer intends to blend different musical genres with a distinctive artistic signature. Xavier Padilla takes part in the varied Parisian scene, he has played, arranged or composed for Orlando Poleo, Jeff Gardner, Allen Hoist, Julien Lourau, Alfredo Rodríguez, Malik Belili, as well as for the Gipsy Kings, Bernard Lavilliers, Alfredo Cutuflá Franchesqui, Javier Plaza and French progressive rock group Taï Phong. His international background includes recording and touring with artists such as Autana, Aldemaro Romero, Ricardo Hernández (Venezuela), Senta Berger, Dunkel Ziffer, Conexión Latina (Germany), Polikandriotis, Pix-Lax, Pandelis Benetatos, Iannis Stavropoulos (Greece), Julia Migenes, Tito Allen, Celia Cruz (USA), Garou (Canada). From 2001 to 2005 he toured extensively with the Gipsy Kings, especially in USA. ==============================================
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BASS DESIGN:======== Xavier Padilla has also been interested in bass design, check out his twisted-neck bass at www.littleguitarworks.com, a result of his own research in ergonomics and the revolutionary Torzal principle invented by Austin based luthier Jerome Little, with the collaboration of two other innovators, Chuck Burge from Kalamazo (recently deceased) and Harris Thor, from Binghamton, NY.
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DISCOGRAPHY:======= Roots , Gipsy Kings - lyrics Como Siento Yo - (Sony Music UK)
- Live at Kenwood House, London, Gipsy Kings DVD live (Warner)
- Arrêt sur Image, Bernard Lavilliers (Universal)
- Romeo Machado, Bernard Lavilliers (PolyGram-Barclay)
- Eso es el Amor, musique film « Un cri d’amour », Tito Puentes (Delabel)
- Lo Bueno de la Vida, Orlando Poleo (Sony Music France)
- El Buen Camino, Orlando Poleo (Sony Music France)
- Mein Kind, Senta Berger (EMI Deutschland)
- Monica y su mecanica, Monicalipso (Fantastica)
- Mi musica, Javier Plaza, (-I-C-U-B4-T)
- La Harpa Vagabunda, Pascal Coulon (PASLLCD05)
- Un Paso Alante, Kent Biswell (KENBIS78778)
- Romeo Machado, Bernard Lavilliers (PolyGram-Barclay)
- Espirituamente, Alfredo Cutufla (Estela)
- Songs for Everyone, Dunkelziffer (Funf und Vierzig)
- Atacama, Rodrigo Alvarado (Musik Welt)
- Valpurgis, Georg Pommer (Atlantic)
- Valparaiso, Ramon Gorigoitia (Musik Welt)
- El Maestro, Ricardo Hernandez (Sonografica)
- Tropic Jazz, Brunin Von Alten (BVAlten Musik)
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FESTIVALS:========= Festival Jazz im Zemtrum, Alemania, 30/04/1990
- - Drum Jazz Festival, Holanda, 09/08/1990
- - Wissen International Jazz Festival, Alemania, 1990
- - Crete Jazz festival, Grecia, 1995
- - Saint-Louis Jazz Festival, Senegal, 10/05/1997
- - Festival Vic-Fezensac Tempo Latino, 27/07/1997
- - Festival Jazz Chatellerault, Francia, 15/05/1998
- - Festival Internationale di Musica, Roma, Italia, 26/06/1998
- - Festival de Thau/Méze, Francia, 18/07/1998
- - Dunhill International Jazz Festival, Costa de Marfil, 18/03/1999
- - Casa Latina Festival at Jazz Cafe, Londres, Inglaterra, 11/07/2000
- - Megéve 12me Jazz Festival, Francia, 13/08/1999
- - Jazz in Marciac, Francia, 1998/ 1999/ 2001
- - Muzillac 98, Francia, 22/08/1998
- - Jazz sur Son 31, Francia, 17/10/1998
- - Jazz en Touraine 98, Francia, 17/09/1998
- - La Villette Rythmes Caraibes, Paris, Francia, 31/05/1998
- - Festival Latino Americano di Milano, Italia, 26/06/1998
- - Festival Chalons-en Champagne, Francia, 20/07/2001
- - Tahiti Festival Jazz, Polynesia francesa, 15/04/2000
- - Nice Jazz Festival, Francia, 22/07/2001
- - Royal Festival Hall, Londres, Inglaterra, 26/09/1999
- - Musiks à Manosque, Francia, 24/07/1998
- - Midem 99, Mónaco, 24/01/1999
- - Jazz à Colombes, Francia, 13/05/2000
- - Teatro de la Opera de Hong Kong, China, 2003
- - Jazz à Vannes, France, 25/07/1998
- - Jazz à Montreux 2004
- - Summer Nights at the Pier, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2004
- - Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California, USA , 2004
- - Teatro Oficial, Palacio del Kremlin, Plaza Roja de Moscú, Rusia, 2003
- - Teatro de la Opera de San Petersburgo, Rusia, 2003
- - Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 2003, 2005
- - Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA, 2003, 2004, 2005
- - Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Canadá, 2002
- - Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- - Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, New York, USA, 2002, 2003
- - Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2004
- - Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virgina, Washington D.C., USA, 2002, 2004, 2005
- - Foxwoods Casino, Mashantucket, CT, USA, 2005
- - Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville, Washington, USA, 2002, 2005
- - Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2003, 2004
- - Midtown Music Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2003
- - Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2002, 2003, 2004
- - Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pen., USA, 2004, 2005
- - Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA, 2002, 2003, 2004
- - Fleet Boston Pavilion, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2003, 2004
- - Kenwood House, London, England, UK, 2004
- - NTELOS Pavillion, Harbor Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA, 2003
- - Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, USA, 2003
- - Santa Barbara County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2002, 2004
- - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta, USA, 2002, 2005
- - Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA, 2002, 2003, 2005
- - Journal Pavillion, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2002
- - Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2002, 2003
- - Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA, 2003
- - The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA, 2003
- - Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, 2003
- - Orlando House of Blues, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2003
- - Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2003
- - Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2003, 2005
- - The Backyard, Austin, Texas, USA, 2003
- - Grove Theatre, Anaheim, California, USA, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- - The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2003
- - Casino del Sol Anselmo Val. Tori Amph., Tucson, AZ, USA, 2003, 2005
- - Nissan Pavillion, Bristow, Virginia, USA, 2003
- - United Islands of Prague, Czec Replublik, USA, 2004
- - North Fork Theatre, Westbury, NY, USA, 2005
- - Teatro de la Opera de Budapest, Hungría, 2004
- - Bank of America Pavillion, Boston, MA, USA, 2005
- - Pier Six Concert Pavillion, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2005
- - House of Blues, Toronto, ON, Canadá, USA, 2005
- - Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canadá, USA, 2005
- - Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, FL, USA, 2005
- - Dodge Arena, Hidalgo, TX, USA, 2005
- - Bass Performance Hall, Ft. Worth, TX, USA, 2005
- - Performing Arts Center, Austin, TX, USA, 2005
- - Jones Hall for Performing Arts, Houston, TX, 2005
- - Hampton Court Festival, East Molesey, Surrey, UK, 2005
- - Princess Diana’ s Family Château, Northampton, UK, 2005
- - Roots Festival Concert Building, Amsterdam, Holanda, 2005
- - Dyrham Park, Nr. Bath, UK, 2005
- - The Point, Dublin, Irlanda, 2005
- - Charlecote Park, Nr. Stratford, UK, 2005
- - Oregon Zoo Amphitheater, Portland, OR, USA, 2005
- - Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, 2005
- - Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, CA, USA, 2005
- - The Showgrounds, Cork, Irlanda, 2005
- - Sandia Casino Amphitheatre, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2004, 2005
- - Viejas Casino, Alpine, CA (San Diego), USA, 2004, 2005,
- - Green Valley Ranch, Henderson, NV (Las Vegas), USA, 2005
- - The Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2005
- - Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO, USA, 2005
- - Ravinia Pavilion, Chicago, IL, USA, 2005
- - Niagara Fallsview Casino, Niagra Falls, Canadá, 2005
- - State Theater, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2005
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Live TV show in 1984 in Venezuela (a skiny 21 years old playing bass with a top salsa orchestra!)
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GRACIAS CABALLERO POR SU BELLO COMENTARIO Y BUENO SOLO CANTO PORQUE ME GUSTA Y LO LLEVO EN LA SANGRE, TU TAMBIEN TIENES UN GRAN TALENTO, QUE SIEMPRE QUISE APRENDER PERO POR CIRCUNSTACIA DE LA VIDA NO PUDE Y ES TOCAR GUITARRA, ME FASCINA Y A VECES CUANDO ME PRESENTO CANTO ACOMPAÑADO DE UN GUITARRISTA MUY AMIGO MIO QUE COMO TU ES TREMENDO CON ESE INSTRUMENTO EN LA MANO. YO TE FELICITO PUE ENTRE A TU PAGINA Y VI TODO LO QUE TIENES Y ES MUY BUENO!!! DESEO QUE PASES UN ESPECTACULAR FIN DE SEMANA HACIENDO LO QUE TE GUSTA, TU SIEMPRE AMIGO ARGEL "LA VOZ"
Xavier, merci d'accepter mon invitation, bravo pour ta page! J'espère qu'on aura l'occasion de rebosser ensemble! Un beso pa ti! Sofia (chant Orkesta Paname)
I've just uploaded a couple of new solo bass demo tracks, "Lullaby" a tune I recorded with my Spector fretted bass and "Soulmates" a new rough demo recorded with my Zon Hyperbass. I hope you will get to check them out and tell me what you think :)
En esa estamos... tratando de arrancar el avion... pero esta pesada la cosa!!!...
Ya los agentes en Europa no quieren ni volar a bandas enteras.... es una desgracia.... para este verano del 2010 ya empece a trabajar en algunas fechas... a ver si se da el asunto...
Chaaaamo!! como van tus cosas? a ver si venís a Barcelona a tomarte algo y a ponernos al día! sabés que M.A.Morillo anda por acá? abrazo pana Fulvio La Tregua
Xavier, good to hear from you. I always enjoy visiting your page. I learn from masters such as yourself. Keep up the great work. You are one of my inspirations. Buena Suerte, Xavier.
Hey! Thank you for supporting my music. Check out my web site at www.vanessathompson.net and my music videos at www.youtube.com. One of my youtube videos is below for you to hear. If you like it, feel free to put it on your page and share it with your friends. There are also some banners on my page if you want to use them on your page. If you have Facebook, please add me. Some are putting me in their top friends. The support is really appreciated. Hope you liked the cover on Hollywood Celebrity Magazine. If you like my music, please add it to your play list for others to hear. Thank you :)
My new music video to my song "Heartbreakin Game" should be coming out in the near future. There is also a fanpop page for me that has been set up. If you get a chance visit it at http://lnk.ms/0zvbC . You can also sign up to follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/vanessathompson :)
I will be performing live at Club Heaven in Seattle, Washington for the Seattle Music Revival September 27, 2008. It begins at 6PM and I will be performing at 10:30 PM. Hope to see you there.
Thank you for your friendship!Enjoy our video "All That Jazz" from Chicago musical!All the best for you your friend from Greece Alexander Paparizos guitarist-band leader
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