Showing posts with label Mandolin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mandolin. Show all posts

1.1.12

Bandurrias in Kawaguchi

  
Orquesta de Plectro de Córdoba
Concierto Kawaguchi
2003

Tracks:

01. Intro
02. El baile de Luis Alonso
03. Canción bohemia
04. Popourri de Aires Andalucez
05. Sevillanas del siglo XVIII
06. Danza ritual del fuego
07. La boda de Luis Alonso
08. Orgía
09. Sakura
10. Intro II
11. Canción de la playa
12. España cañí
 
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Bandurria
  
The bandurria is a plectrum chordophone from Spain, similar to the cittern and the mandolin, primarily used in Spanish folk music.

Prior to the 18th century, the bandurria had a round back, similar or related to the mandore. It had become a flat-backed instrument by the 18th century, with five double courses of strings, tuned in fourths. The original bandurrias of the Medieval period had three strings. During the Renaissance they gained a fourth string. During the Baroque period the bandurria had 10 strings (5 pairs). The modern bandurria has 12 strings (6 pairs). The strings are tuned in unison pairs, going up in fourths from the low G#. The lowest four strings are a major-third above those of a standard guitar and the highest two strings are a fourth above a standard guitar, ie G♯, c♯, f♯, b, e and a.
 
   
Orquesta de Plectro de Córdoba
 
Orquesta de Plectro de Córdoba is an association of thirty young musicians whose sole purpose is to enjoy making music.

What makes this Orchestra different is that it has successfully fused classical music, popular nationalist and popular music with instruments of their land, resulting in a very special timbre that is attractive to all kind of ears. In their desire to make music it is a priority to rescue the unjustly neglected works and authors that have gone unnoticed in the history of music.
   
   
The Bandurria (mandolin) is the instrument that gives its name to the family, because when we speak Spanish lutes we refer to the entire group of ibises, ie, soprano mandolin, mandola contralto, tenor mandolin, mandola mandolin low bass, but are popularly other names, such as bandurrín, lute, Laudon, on lute, etc.., reserving the term mandolin, soprano exclusively for the instrument.

We find the term "Mandura" Provencal language "mandoire" in French. The two appear to be derived, according to John Joseph King and Antonio Navarro from the Sumerian "pan-tur" through the Greek "pandurion" and the Latin "pandura." However, in "The Book of Good Love" from Arciprestre de Hita (fourteenth century), which first appears in a literary text the word "lute", citing as an instrument instruments that already has some tradition.

Today, after having gone through different shapes and sizes throughout history, we can draw such a small instrument with sounding pear profile, tapas and a mast parallel fretted, through which the cords extend (six distributed in pairs), topped with a peg, needing to execute a plectrum or pick. It is therefore an instrument belonging to the category of compounds stringed instruments.

The mandolin in the s. XX, is becoming an essential tool in the folklore of some Spanish regions, and appears also quite often in the Spanish lyrical genre, the Zarzuela.

translation-thanks-to-google
  
source of the music & the fotos - Gracias! 
  
hoping to have made the orchestra a little bit more known... : )

and one more time:
 
¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo!
 
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1.6.10

Banjo

  
Tico-Banjo
Jazz-Grass Ensemble

Pierre Verany - 1995

Tracks:

01. Sweet Georgia Brown
02. Dear Old Dixie
03. Whispering
04. Tico-Tico
05. Perle de Cristal
06. Yeux Noirs
07. Brazil
08. Oh, Lady Be Good
09. Take the "A" Train
10. Beaumont Rag
11. Blackberry Rag
12. Sweet Chorus
13. Salt Creek
14. Dawn and Day Way
15. Caravan
16. Medley: C'Est Si Bon/Tea for Two/Hello Dolly/Ain' She Sweet/All of Me

Pierre Granier, Banjo
Jean-Paul Charles, Mandoline
Michel Barbier, Guitare
Franck Bonnefoy, Basse
  
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I firmly believe that you will find no other CD in the world like this one. I picked up mine years ago off of a rack simply catagorized as "banjo". The banjo is the salient miracle of this album considering that the instrument is so pigeon-holed into the narrow spectrum of bluegrass music primarily. In the right hands the banjo can sing any kind of music, and in the deepest, truest voicings! However, I would describe all of the instruments (blugrass/country instruments) and arrangements on this CD as 'understated spactacular', but this is not bluegrass; this is sweet clean flowing jazz. These musicians are probably studio musicians who have backed up many professional acts? I say that becuase these musicians have the extremely uncommon sense to not 'play over the music' while expertly playing the music to it's maximum potential both in solo and ensemble sections. Try to get this CD and try to encourage this ensemble to record again not only to create more great music, but to hopefully continue what to me sounds like a unique genre that they have created. It would certainly be a shame if this music is only a single shooting star, but if that indeed is the fate of the matter at least catch this star. JAR (NYC)
 
    

31.5.10

Kepa & Julio

 
Julio Pereira & Kepa Junkera
Lau eskutara

 
Tracks:

1. Madagaskar (2'37)  K.Junkera
2. Eguzkiaren dizdira (3'30)  K.Junkera / J.Pereira
3. Pedrinhas (3'40)  K.Junkera
4. Dantza con noivos (2'24)  K.Junkera
5. Señora-Moca (2'44)  K.Junkera
6. Kalatxoriak (2'45)  K.Junkera / J.Pereira
7. Sodade (4'12)  Luis Morais / Amandio Cabral
8. Jainkoaren poza (3'29)  K.Junkera
9. Pátio das camélias (2'51)  J.Pereira / K.Junkera
10. Pousada das neves (3'21)  J.Pereira / K.Junkera
11. Después de la misa (1'24)  K.Junkera
12. Disfarces (2'40)  J.Pereira / K.Junkera / Tradicional
13. Lau eskutara (2'22)  J.Pereira / K.Junkera

Iraupena: 38' 59"

Julio Pereira, bandolima, Bragako gitarra, gitarra cavaquinhoa, txalaparta
Kepa Junkera, trikitixa, trikitixa kaxa, txalaparta

Grabazioa:  Elkar estudioa (Donostia)
Soinu teknikaria: Jean Phocas
Moldaketak: Julio Pereira
  
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A brilliant teaming of of the Basque accordion legend and the mandolin/guitarist from Portugal in acoustic duets of music from both places. Junkera's trikitixa finds a remarkable sympatico with Pereira's mandolin, cavaquinho and guitarra braguesa on a series of unusual and original compositions.

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"...subtle and virtuosic.. most impressive... Together, they explore their own compositions with a pleasing conceptual looseness wedded at times to extremely tight and inspired playing. Pereira's roots in Portuguese Fado come out here and there, as do Junkera's roots in the trikitixa tradition, but most of this is new acoustic music with swing and style." - Dirty Linen

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"The result is lively and intricate, drawing on Kepa's Basque pace and energy and the ringing fluidity of Pereira's fado-inflected playing." - Andrew Cronshaw, fROOTS