Tazzuff

TAZZUFF. VANGUARD FOLK

Formed in Barcelona, Tazzuff's aim is to build a self-made repertoire, totally instrumental and based on traditional language. Their objective is a repertoire which sounds new and imaginative balancing at the same time the important of every instrument in the group. The group is composed by six young instrumentalists coming from different stylistic field, and their repertoire, which is old of their own, and the arrangements approach folk to other styles like jazz, flamenco and rumba with a result into an air of innovation and experimentation.

In 2010 Tazzuff won the third prize of Sounds of the Mediterranean, summoned by the magazine Sounds at CAT (Centre Artesà Tradicionarius) in Barcelona and the Mediterranean Fair in Manresa. The prize Sounds of the Mediterranean has allowed the first Tazzuff CD recording and also their presence at important appointments within the folk and traditional scene in Catalonia, such as the 31st Festival Internacional de Música Popular i Tradicional de Vilanova i la Geltrú, the FestCat/Escola de la Festa de Llívia or the 14 th Fira Mediterrània de Manresa.

Recently, the group has also won the first prize of Folk Music Competition “Folkez Blai”, celebrated in Ermua (Basque Country, Spain).

Nowadays, Tazzuff is working in the creation of new repertoires and thinking about the next recording project. The group aims to bring its music to Europe, in order to be known and to be included in the present european danse and folk music offer.

MEMBERS OF TAZZUFF:
Marc del Pino: diatonic accordion
Aleix Armengol: diatonic accordion, accordina
Òscar Antolí: bass clarinet, clarinet, flute
Adrià Grandia: hurdy-gurdy
Xavi Grau: electric bass
Carlos Ronda: percussion

DISCOGRAPHY:
Camaleons Daltònics, 2011, Temps Record

PRIZES:
III Prize “Sounds of the Mediterranean” (2010)
1st Prize for Competition “Folkez Blai”, Basque Country, Spain (2012)

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS AND UNCOMING RELEASES:
• Festival Danzas sin fronteras, Toledo (Spain). 2008
• Circuit Folk, different locations (Catalonia). 2009 , 2011
• Fira d'Arrel Mediterrània, Manresa (Catalonia). 2010 , 2011
• Ondarean Folk Erandio, (Basc Country). 2010
• FestCat / Escola de la Festa, Llívia (Catalonia). 2011
• Festival Tradicionàrius, Barcelona (Catalonia). 2011 , 2012
• Festival Andanças, Carvalhais, S. Pedro du sul (Portugal). 2011
• FestCat / School of traditional music and dance, Esterri d'Àneu (Catalonia). 2012.