Pau Riba, Lluis el Sifoner, Nirvana, Sisa, Al-Mayurqa, Black Sabbath, Guillem d'Efak, Soundgarden, Els Potuls, Judas Priest, Remigi Palmero, Whitesnake, La Beniterrània, Ovidi Montllor, Jebo, Lluis Llach, King Diamond, Albert Pla, Uriah Heep, Nestor Mont, Pantera, Oriol Tranvía, Francesc Pujols, Northern Light, Raimon, The cure, Ramon Muntaner, Deep purple, Umpah-pah, The Cure, Cendraires, Lax'n'Busto,Companyia Eléctrica Dharma, Kistch, ERM, Bocanegra, Tomeu Penya, Whiskyns, Gerard Jaquet, Pascal Comelade, Toti Soler, Orquesta Mirasol,Fora des sembrat, Uc, Soviets, Delfí Abella, Música Nostra, Alice Cooper, Francesc Pi de la Serra, Enric Barbat, Xavier Elies, Frank Zappa, Maria del Carme Girau, Martí Llauradó, Joan Ramon Bonet, Joan Manuel Serrat, Maria del Mar Bonet, Lluís Llach, Rafael Subirachs, Miquel Porter i Moix, Remei Margarit i Josep Maria Espinàs, Grup de Folk Esquirols, Música Dispersa, Pere Calders, Manuel de Pedrolo, Charlie River, Slayer, Tortell Poltrona, Sepultura, Ximbomba Atòmica, Lluis Llach, Soulfly, Biel Majoral, Joan Manuel Serrat, Jaume Arnella, Falsterbo, La rondalla de la costa, Rafael Subirachs, Xesco Boix, Pep Laguarda & Tapineria, The Doors, Secta Sonica, Ara va de debo, Iceberg, Xesco Boix, Esquirols, Coses, Celdoni Fonoll, Dead Can Dance All Tall, La Coral Cosmica, Remigi Palmero i Bon Mati, Bustamante, Pegasus, Pere Tapies, Joan Bibilonia, Orquesta Galana, Gato Perez, Enric Hernaez, Duble Buble, Toni Morla, Joan Americ, Orquesta Plateria, Primera Nota, Musica nostra, Chuck Berry, Urbalia Rurana, U-topics, Bars, Dr. Calypso, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Ocults, Akatala, Errol Woiski, Ai Ai Ai, Slips, Quico el Celio El noi i el mut de Ferreries, Big Mama i Visctor Uris, Glaucs, An Der Beat, Quimi Portet, Calic, El Pont D'Arcalis, Josep Tero, Inadaptats, Pomada, Xavier Baro, Blues de Picolat, Joan Isaac, Antonia Font, Cheb Balowski, Glissando, Roger Mas & Les Flors, Miquel Gil, Obrint Pas, Adria Punti, Eduard Canimas, Dusminguet, El mal ja està fet, Lluis Miquel i els 4 Z, BandaClowns, Els Pavesos....
Sounds Like
Nothing else...you shiver listening to the music and cry seas of tears during their concerts!
A great combination... Errol's guitar playing with a restless, but approachable sound...And the unique method of Xavier's reciting, breaking so directly any classic rules of poetry, love, and folk!
“WHY DO NOT YOU SAY IT” - BENCHMARK ALBUM OF CATALAN MUSIC.
The band was formed in summer 2001 in Bedminster (Bristol) by the two local musicians Errol Hewitt and Xavier Panadès.
Xavier developed the idea of internationalising the music from the Catalonian countries in an acoustic set playing covers from classic Catalan folk musicians and poets.
Xavier approached James Hollingsworth he agreed to help record an album of updated covers from Catalan musicians.
However, after six hours of recording James stopped it because he realised that the talented but bizarre Xavier’s voice did not fit with the music he was trying to sing... except for one song, the largely spoken-word production of “Els Amants”, which with its powerful restless and quick mood changing from sweetness to anger, passion could comfortably be expressed.
James realised that this performance of “Els Amants” revealed Xavier as a unique mixture of a reciter, comedian, declaimer and singer and proceeded to point out to Xavier that this may be his real path in music art.
After having turned Xavier's life upside down in this fashion, James sent him home and suggested to create with Errol their own songs to accommodate his voice.
After only three weeks of intense inspiration and creativity, he and Xavier returned to James' studio and recorded in just one day the mini-album “Why do not you said?”
In Xavier Panades and the C.A.T. (Creative Artistic Temperament), a new form of transcendent music has been born.
It combines to perfection, the three indispensable elements of the Catalan music: the expression of the body, to act, and the temperamental rhapsodies. The result universalizes and modernizes her mediaeval, Francophone, and the recently rock roots.
It combines to perfection, the three indispensable elements of the Catalan music: the expression of the body (passionate), acting (mysterious), and the temperamental rhapsodies (unpredictable). The result is very bizarre, and it universalizes and modernizes her mediaeval, Francophone, and the recently rock roots. In fact, Many people consider “tenebres I teranyines (darkness and spiderwebs)” as the first folf trash-metal song ever!
The album is splashed with rock and psychedelic influences of Pau Riba (Catalan greatest rock artist), the passionate recitations of Ovidi Montllor and Tom Waits, Ozzy Osbourne’s sharp edge, and the extreme vocalizations of Tom Araya, Jacques Le Brel, and Max Calavera.
It breaks through any musical classicism so that people can directly experience the feeling that the words are expressing, regardless of their complexity or the language in which are expressed. It is heavily laced with Xavier’s talent to switch and combine poetry, comedy, acting and tireless recitation.
Their performances are a combination of two extremes working in total harmony. Errol is calm, mysterious and quiet, like a reversed volcano, in huge contrast to Xavier with his chaotic bursts of feeling and Rabelaisian passion.
The album artwork for “Per que no li dius?” has been designed by the collaboration between Joan Fontcuberta. The artwork with this CD is as bizarre and arresting, but effective as Xavier’s Album. The surrealist photomontage was produced by Joan Fontcuberta, a Catalan world-known graphic artist in 1974 a year before Franco’s death.
The art work suggests “walls have ears”, like Xavier’s music, the walls around commercial music have ears and heart!
The music has drawn burgeoning interest from peoples of very different cultural, class, and international backgrounds, as a glance at the band's MySpace page will demonstrate: it is like a party of joyous diversity!
James curiosity paid off and after his experience with the band in the studiohe describes it as the “Poetic Performance Genius of Tom Waits meets Warhol-esque artistry inspired by the Catalan heritage of Dali and Gaudi" (though he's surprised to be quoted on this first suggestion!); Highrise Music says: "a stunningly raw and passionate performance!, which is perhaps a more accessible description; and "Damn good sounding - the voice is one of the strongest imprints I've heard in a while." - Associated Minds.
The band has been gigging around Bristol and already captured media interest. Even before the release of their first album a recent performance was filmed in Bristol for TV3 (The National Catalan TV), with an interview in the authentic atmosphere of the Anglo-Italian venue. Cultural organisations from Catalonia and Euskadi have also showed interest in the band performing in their coming festivals.
The band is currently negotiating their record and distribution deals; composing their second album "Thinking in Cats", with the inclusion of some special guests from the worlds of Jazz and Blues; and setting up a concert program for what looks likely to be a very busy 2008!
“PER QUÈ NO LI DIUS? ” ÀLBUM DE REFERÈNCIA DE LA MUSICA CATALANA
La banda es forma l’estiu del 2001 a Bedminster (Bristol, Anglaterra), per dos músics locals, L’Errol Hewitt i el Xavier Panades.
El principal objectiu del projecte és la internacionalització de la música i cultura dels Països Catalans totalment desconeguda a l’exterior.
l’únic cantautor català internacional resident a Bristol ens presenta un àlbum que defineix l’estil català internacionalment.
Un nou estil que combina a la perfecció, els tres elements indispensables de la musica catalana: l'expressió del cos, actuar, i les rapsòdies temperamentals. El resultat es universalitzar i modernitzar les seves arrels medievals, francòfona, i la recentment rockera.
A l'àlbum es esquitxat amb les influencies rockeres i psicodèliques del Pau Riba, el recitar impecable de l’Ovidi Montllor o el Tom Waits, les voreres afilades d'Ozzy Osbourne, i les vocalitzacions extremes de Tom Araya, Jacques Brel, i Max Calavera.
Les lletres encara que poètiques son abrasives i polèmiques tant com els artistes mencionats, la terra tan verda com quatribarrada, com humana, es sentida cada segon de l’album.
Tant el Xavier com l’Errol son artistes de l’escola del carrer i els patiments de la vida. Conseqüentment les seves personalitats idiosincràtiques i la manera tan atípica de composar música han estat vitals per desenvolupar l’estil català en una nova forma transcendental de música, que trenca amb qualsevol classisme musical per transportar el públic directament a experimentar el sentiment que les paraules estan expressant, sense tenir en compte la seva complexitat o la llengua en que és expressat.
La veu de Xavier té una gran qualitat que sona com una banda sonora de pel•lícula artística sovint repartida amb caràcters contrastats, com un contista de poble d'una edat antiga.
Les seves actuacions són una combinació de dos extrems que treballen en total harmonia. La manera inusual de tocar la guitarra de l’Errol, calmada i misteriosa com un volcà revertit. Contrasta amb els llampecs caòtics de sentiments i passió Rabelaisiana del Xavier.
El 2006 James Hollingsworth acceptà ajudar a enregistrar l’àlbum. Durant la gravació el James s’adonà que la veu del Xavier, amb tant de talent com inusual, no coincidia amb la música que estava cantant...Amb L’excepció d’una cançó “Els amants”, on els tons inquiets i constantment canviants de la seva veu poden desenvolupar-se confortablement; des de ràpids canvis d’humor amb passió, a tocs dolços de lirisme romàntic, a la ràbia i el dolor.
James revela el Xavier com una mescla única de recitador comediant, renunciador, i cantant, i que el seu futur artístic es trobar un balanç genuí d’aquests talents.
L’Errol i el Xavier tornaren tres setmanes més tard a l’estudi del James i enregistraren en només un dia el miniàlbum “Per què no li dius?”.
Les seves personalitats idiosincràtiques i la manera tan atípica de composar música havia començat a desenvolupar un estil únic: una nova forma transcendental de música, que trenca amb qualsevol classisme musical per transportar el públic directament a experimentar el sentiment que les paraules estan expressant, sense tenir en compte la seva complexitat o la llengua en que és expressat.
Les seves actuacions són una combinació de dos extrems que treballen en total harmonia. La manera inusual com l’Errol toca la guitarra es calmada i misteriosa com un volcà revertit. Contrasta amb els llampecs caòtics de sentiments i passió Rabelaisiana del Xavier.
La música ha encès l'interès internacional de gent de diferent classes socials, culturals i artístiques.
Recentment, TV3 va entrevistar i filmar una actuació del grup a Bristol. A més a més, diferents organitzacions culturals basques, escoceses, catalanes i txeques han mostrat interès en la banda per actuar als seus festivals.
La banda està actualment composant el segon àlbum, “Pensant en Cats” amb l’inclusió d’alguns músics convidats del món del jazz i blues; i organitzant la gira d’estiu del que sembla un 2008 molt enfeinat.
Buy Per què no li dius? on i-Tunes, on CD from CD Baby or click the Paypal 'Buy Now' button to buy direct from the band. Alternatively, get the mp3 version of the album for just $4.99 on Soundclick.
“Malas Temporadas” es el título del nuevo trabajo de Defectos Comunes, editado con el sello Producciones Malditas.
A lo largo de los diez temas que conforman el álbum advertimos un sonido cercano al postcore, salpicado de otras influencias más punk o incluso metal, donde el desencanto y el pesimismo de las letras se combinan con la contundencia vocal e instrumental, pero sin dejar de lado momentos más melódicos: influencias como Nuevenoventaicinco o Berri Txarrak así lo atestiguan. Grabado los últimos días de 2008 de la mano de César Alberdi en un rincón del norte donde la reconversión industrial aún forma parte del paisaje, hallando en él viviendas abandonadas, cementerios de maquinaria obsoleta, polución y una población un tanto retraída, lo que sumado al frío y la lluvia imperantes aquellos días no hicieron sino agudizar la naturaleza de los temas que conforman el disco. Potencia y amargura destilan a partes iguales los diez cortes del cd a lo largo de su escasa media hora, donde Defectos Comunes ofrecen su visión de lo que les rodea, un mundo oxidado y
¿QUÉ CANCIÓN ESCOGERÍAS COMO PRIMER SENCILLO? / WHICH SONG WOULD YOU CHOOSE AS OUR 1ST SINGLE?
¡Hola a todos!
Ya estamos a punto de sacar nuestro primer disco, y hemos decidido consultaros qué canción escogeríais como primer sencillo del mismo: la más pegadiza, la que os guste más, lo que piensan vuestros amigos...
Recordad que podéis escucharlas todas en nuestro perfil.
¡Deja tu comentario en el blog y lo tendremos en cuenta!
¡Un abrazo!
Kool
Hi everyone!
Our first CD will be released soon, so we would like you to give us your opinion on which track should be our first single: which song you like the most or think is the catchiest one...what your friends think, etc.
Now you can hear the complete CD on our profile.
Leave us a comment, we'll take it into account!
Peace!
Kool
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE is not just an outdated catch phrase!! It's still as important as when it was first written!!
We can still all do this.....and if you want to be part of the solution...
...then do consider adding my new song, "Think Peace" to your profile. It's easy to do, just go to my profile and right under the song title on the player is a place to choose "ADD".
The more that this song gets heard, the more that people will stop for a moment, interrupt their routine, and think about peace. If people do this, even just for a moment, there is an effect! So, YOU can be part of the solution....
And if you do add the song to your profile, PLEASE be sure to let me know so I can drop you a note and thank you personally! ;)
Think Peace! Sing Peace! BE peace! Much Love, Andrew
I hope all is well and good and I just wanted to let you know I've just put up a new track called ECHO so I thought you might want to have a listen. :o) It's just the instrumental version I did not long ago but I do have a full section of vocal to arrange into this track so I'll keep you posted on the outcome! :o)
I appreciate your time and support and any comments posted.
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
La Folie are having a launch party on the 8th of June at The Forum in Sheffield! £2 advance tickets/£3 on the door! Plus the added bonus of if you film some stuff from the night of us, you or anything else connected and send it us, we will send you a free copy of 'Risus Sardonicus'
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