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Tomás San Miguel and Txalaparta
DAN_TXA (MusiMagic, Spain)
$17.99
Composer, acordionist and pianist Tomás San Miguel explores the rythms and modes of the ancient Basque melodic-percussive txalaparta with a definitive jazz outlook, joined by a small ensemble of txalaparta, flutes, keyboards, guitar and percussion (drum kit, frame drums, cajon, jaw harps and more). Some of it harkens back to 90's Kepa Junkera in its global energy, but for the most part, Miquel and his ensemble chart their own personal path. There are two dips into smooth-slickness, but the other 7 tracks more than make up for the lapses, and there is a bonus video track so you can see the txalaparta players in action. All in all, I recommend it.
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Listen:
Noche de San Juan
Sorginetxe
Sambaparta
Tomás San Miguel: accordion
Ttukunak: txalaparta
Marlon Klein: percussions, programmings and production
invited artists:
Jorge Pardo: flute
Antonio J.Gómez: guitar
What the band says for itself:
"He is Truly Different, A Magnificent Job, Evocative Memories of Mystery and Charm, Fascinating and Exuberant Music, Powerful Meditations, An Original and Impressive Fusion"...
Tomás San Miguel, composer, pianist and accordionist, meets the txalaparta a percussive instrument, more than 2000 years old, from the Basque Country in Spain, one of the oldest cultures in Europe. Tomás San Miguel, pioneer in the adaptation and musical use of the Basque txalaparta into the context of today´s music, always in the search of the new horizons of sound divorcing himself from any standard classification, prejudgment or market trend. His CD LEZAO was listed in the firsts positions of the European Radio World Music Charts, was a big success and even today continues been a landmark CD. Obtained important recognition in Spain and in the United States where the specialized press (Billboard, Rolling Stone, Spotlight), dedicated headlines like the following to him:
"Tomás San Miguel (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1953) is a craft man, with the patient of an archaeologist has search into his own language achieving something unique. Maybe he was after it without knowing how, since he left to study music to E.E:U.U., where he ended joining musicians like Stan Getz, Airto Moreira o Larry Coryell. Or later performing with the German Band Dissidenten. But finally he found his unique voice, but much closer to his homeland: in the hamlet of Lezao near the mountains of his Basque Land." - Carlos Galilea EL PAIS
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