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About Me

Percusionista un poco solitario que a veces con ayuda de amigos utiliza el ostinato/loop de las nuevas tecnologias para ir en busca de algo medio perdido, un poco entreverado en una jungla de cadencias, acentos y polirritmias verbales. Ojala que a alguien le parezca que se hace con respeto.... Nacido y criado en Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gaston alias Tongas se muda a Londres, Inglaterra a principios de siglo. Ritmo, amor, nostalgia, crisis, locura, vida ciudadana y migraciones son investigados aca.-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- A somewhat lonely percussionist who sometimes with the help of friends uses the ostinato/loop of new technologies to search for something a bit lost, slightly intermingled in a jungle of cadences, accents and verbal polyrhythms. Hopefully someone will think that it has been done with respect....Born and bred in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gaston aka Tongas moved to London, England, at the beginning of the century. Rhythm, love, nostalgia, crisis, madness, city life and migrations are investigated here.

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Member Since: 7/16/2006
Band Website: [email protected]
Band Members: tongas is:::::::::::::: GASTON CARRANO: Vocals, drums, percussion and writing. ............................................................ .......Colaborators:::::::::::::::::::BEN BROOKE: coproduced Mental, Vamos a Reir, Don Ben and Melodia de arrabal and played many instruments including percussion, keyboards, guitar and acordion; and also cowriter in Don Ben. ...... MARIANO GARCIA: cowriter in Mental and also played lead guitar and trumpet......................CARLOS QUILICI: bandoneon que luego fue puesto en loop en Vamos a Reir..............TONY BROOKE: guitar, percussion and keyboards en Mental...................HENRY ANTHONY: bass in Vamos a Reir...................PABLO TORTELLA: masterizacion en Mental.............................IOSI CEROWSKI: cowriter in Mental.................................... Mental videoclip
Influences: Carlos Gardel, the Wailers (Bob, Pete & Bunny), Louis Armstrong, Roberto Goyeneche, Alpha Blondy, Alberto Castillo, D’Arienzo, Chuck Berry, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Julio Sosa, Horace Silver, Fernandez Fierro, Oscar Aleman, Rolling Stones, Caruso, Autenticos Decadentes, Bob Marley, Sandro, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ramones, Edmundo Rivero, Peter Tosh, Mariano Mores, Ernest Ranglin, Ruben Blades, Beck, Vinicius de Moraes, Alfredo Piro, Yellowman.......
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