- country:Spain
- label:Nuevos Medios
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental
- artist posted by:Stage Planet
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Mastretta is highly appreciated for his recordings and soundtracks (Looking for Fidel by Oliver Stone or Asfalto by Daniel Calparsoro among many others). His latest work is a collective adventure in search of the sources of popular music.
For this new project, Nacho Mastretta has met again with the same band that he has been playing and recording with for the last ten years, putting the focus on the musical experience and the joy of playing live together. Ten musicians from four countries and two different generations, sharing music together, that is Vivan los Musicos, nothing more, nothing less.
The compositions Mastretta wrote for the band aim to enhance the personality of each musician and the collective improvisation, so through musical dialogue and personal collaboration, the original score is further developed in order to reach new scopes of emotion and surprise which reaches it’s height when the music is played live.
Music that is passionately alive, able to build new landscapes that flows from dawn to dusk, music to celebrate, to dance, to love. Music full of spices, breezes and waves. Music that stimulates all senses, where it’s not the ear but the imagination what is needed to get into it and let the sound work inside of us with the precision of a clock that doesn’t give the time away but emotions.
The honest friendship that glued the band is the secret that at the end of the day makes every concert a celebration.
Line Up:
Nacho Mastretta: Composer, clarinet and accordion
Pablo Novoa: Guitar and mandolin
Ricardo Moreno: Percussion
Luca Frasca: Piano and organ
Pablo Navarro: Double Bass
Marina Sorin: Violoncello
Diego Galaz: Violin and Trumpet-Violin
Miguel Malla: Tenor Sax and Clarinet
Marco Cresci: Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
David Herrington: Trumpet
Discography:
- ¡Vivan los Músicos!, Nuevos Medios, 2009
- Mastretta en el Sol, (live) Subterfuge Records, 2007
- Música de Automovil, Subterfuge Records, 2001
- El Sueño del Caiman, (OST), Subterfuge Records, 2001
- Bascombe EP, Música para un guateque sideral/Subterfuge Records, 2001
- En Malas Compañías, OST, Subterfuge Records, 2000
- Luna de Miel, Música para un guateque sideral/Subterfuge Records, 2000
- Música para la Colección de Jesús del Pozo, EP, Subterfuge Records, 1999
- Melodías de Rayos X, Subterfuge Records, 1998
- Highballito, EP, Música para un guateque sideral/Subterfugege Records, 1998
Awards:
- 2010, Best Album, for Vivan Los Músicos, Premios de la Música
- 2009, Best Album, for Vivan Los Músicos, UFI, Unión Fonográfica Independiente.
- 2000, Goya Award, Best OST, for Asfalto by Daniel Calparsoro
- 1999, Best Electronica Album of the '90s, El País, for Melodías de Rayos X