Contradanza

Music:

Member Since: 10/23/2006
Band Website: contradanzafolk.blogspot.com
Band Members: Ricardo de Castro: (Acoustic guitar, mandola and voice) Rafa Alvarez: (Accordion and flutes) Fernando García Conde: (drums, Arab & African percussion,cajon flamenco...) Jesus García: (Fiddle and mandolin) Antón Ramírez: (Bass)
Influences: Deliciously politically incorrect.(Iñaki Peña, Trébede, Radio 3)Ricardo de Castro’s peculiar vocal range is surprising in a CD where accordions and fiddles also exhibit their potential seduction.(Fernando Neira, El País- Babelia)Contradanza’s CD provokes a contagious pleasure when we come across such a colorful and fresh music.(Miki Torrents, World Music)They progress with self-confidence on the slippery path that brings them close to Andalusian folklore without falling into flamenco sterotypes. References are made to Penguin Café Orchestra but also to Celtic music.Miquel Jurado (El País)Their music brings about an unmistakable fragrance of Atlantic tides.(Luis Rei, Crónicas da Terra, Portugal)
Sounds Like: CONTRADANZA NEW FOLK FROM ANDALUCÍA (SPAIN)Contradanza, a folk and acoustic music band, was born in 1998 in Sevilla (Andalucía, Spain) made up by musicians from Cadiz, Sevilla, Huelva and Córdoba. Contradanza offers a different perspective of folk and traditional music by collecting various influences they manage to blend in their acoustic mixer: traditional music, romances, flamenco, jazz, arab music, renaissance dances... Special focus is made on the revision of traditional romances and of Andalusian popular lyrical poems as well as on the composition of their own pieces based on the study of contemporary Spanish poetry.
Record Label: Galileo MC
Type of Label: Indie