Member Since: 17/05/2007
Band Website: www.cesarepastanella.com
Band Members: PROJECTS:CABILDO BLANCO (Afrocuban folkloric group) - FARAUALLA (voices & percussion), www.faraualla.com - MICHELE GIULIANI TRIO & GABIN DABIRE' (Afro-Jazz) - TAVERNANOVA (Italian music), www.tavernanova.it
Influences: DISCOGRAPHY:BRUNO TOMMASO, VITTORINO CURCI e ORCHESTRA UTOPIA, Nux Erat (Cmc 1993) - TAVERNA NOVA (Cni 1994) - TEMPO 5, The way I had (Right tempo 1995) - TAVERNANOVA, Canti Sudati (il Manifesto 1995) - ORCHESTRA UTOPIA e PAOLO FRESU SEXTET, 6x30 (Onyx 1996) - TAVERNANOVA, Matengue (Cni/Bmg 1996) - PAOLO ACHENZA TRIO, Ombre (Schema 1997) - INTENSIVE JAZZ SEXTET, Today’s Sound (Schema 1997) - EDMONDO, Dominio elementare (Schema 1997) - FINISTERRAE (Equipe 1998) - RADIODERVISH, Lingua contro Lingua (Dischi del Mulo/Polygram 1998) - FUNAMBOLICI VARGAS, Festival Nazionale Cant’autori (Arci 1998) - FUNAMBOLICI VARGAS, Canzoniere copernicano (Dfv/Emi 2000) - NICOLA CONTE, Feeling good - Lounge (Bmg 2001) - DAVIDE PENTA (featuring Javier Girotto), Venus Mandala (III Millennio 2002) - FARAUALLA, Sind' (Amiata Records 2003) - MARIO ROSINI, Cercando te (Caffè Concerto Italia 2005) - MIGUEL ENRIQUEZ, Loco Loco (Orula Records 2005) - GUIDO DI LEONE QUINTET-JAZZ 'N MAMBO Flamingo (Philology 2005) - MIGUEL ENRIQUEZ Grandes Exitos (Orula Records 2006) - BERARDI JAZZ CONNECTION Do it! (Antibemusic 2007) - FABULARASA (featuring Paul McCandless), En plein air (Radar/Egea 2007) - FARAUALLA, I concerti del Quirinale di Radio3 (Rai 2007) - LEOPOLDO SEBASTIANI, Night (Dodicilune 2007) - FARAUALLA, Sospiro (Felmay Records 2008) - MIRKO SIGNORILE, Clessidra (Universal 2009)
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I began to play and study drums with PAOLO LORUSSO, MAURIZIO DEI LAZZARETTI and PIETRO IODICE, subsequently developing an interest in ethnic percussion instruments. I began to learn the rhythms of North-Africa with the Algerian MOUSSA BELKACEMI. I started Afro-Cuban culture studies with GIOVANNI IMPARATO and broadened his skills in La Habana with TONY URDANETA and MICHEL ALDAMA (Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba), AMADITO DEDEU (Grupo Clave y Guaguancò), in New York with JOHN AMIRA and in Italy with REYNALDO HERNANDEZ RAMIREZ and IRIAN LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ (Los Chinitos). He studied Afro-Cuban chant whit GREGORIO “EL GOYO†HERNANDEZ, Brazilian percussion with GILSON SILVEIRA and KAL DOS SANTOS and in Burkina Faso (West Africa) the Mandinga rhythmic tradition of the tamà drum with BABA KOUYATE' and balafon with ADAMA DJABATE'. My percussion set includes a broad array of instruments from Africa, South-America, Caribees, Middle East, Mediterranean area making use sometimes of also electronic and sampled sounds. I'm constantly searching for a musical style that merges those traditional musical cultures into contemporary European and Afro-American sounds and grooves. I'm part of the female a cappella quartet FARAUALLA, of the Italian group TAVERNANOVA and Afro-Cuban folkloric group CABILDO BLANCO.
I collaborated with: PAOLO FRESU SEXTET, BRUNO TOMMASO, BOBBY McFERRIN, PINO MINAFRA, GIANLUIGI TROVESI, EVAN PARKER, PIERRE FAVRE, JAVIER GIROTTO, FABRIZIO BOSSO, GIANLUCA PETRELLA, ROBERTO OTTAVIANO, DAVIDE SANTORSOLA, PAOLINO DALLA PORTA, FARAFINA, TOUPS BEBEY & Le Spirit Pan-African Brass Company, PUGLIA JAZZ BIG BAND, RADIODERVISH, ANTONIO MARANGOLO, ANTONELLO SALIS, ABBES BOUFRIOUA, GIOVANNI IMPARATO, NICOLA CONTE, MIGUEL ENRIQUEZ, FRANCISCO ULLOA PACHITO, LUIS "ASPIRINA" CHACON, MARIA PIA DE VITO, JOY GARRISON, MARIO ROSINI, TONY ESPOSITO, participating in numerous international festivals. I played in the piece GILGAMESH produced by Teatro Kismet OperA of Bari, written and directed by TERESA LUDOVICO. Besides my concert and recording activities, I also collaborate as percussionist to workshops and courses of Caribbean dance and teach drums, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Arab percussion and lead the workshop “LE PERCUSSIONI DELL'ANIMAâ€.
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