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Conjunto Ashé is a Sonora formation with an authentic son
repertoire Ten experienced musicians led by Fernando
Luis Garcia – also known with his Orquesta Bembe salsa orchestra-
will take you right into to the Carribean with this classy and warm
conjunto sound.
Conjunto Ashe is about to release their first recorded album and what you can expect is an authentic salsa dance band repertoire remeniscent of the Johnny Pacheco days and Chapotin with a modern twist.
The blessing of incorporating musicians in Europe from diverse backgrounds, such as India, Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Netherlands, Surinam and Curacao has been -believe you me- bestowed upon Conjunto Ashe – and the name says it al!
Composers: Fernando Luis Garcia /Pedro Pardo
Arrangers: Fernando Luis Garcia/Pedro Pardo
Copies: Ilvio Pietersz
Advisors: Marcos Betancourt, Anoep Gobind
Recording Engineer: Laura Reiman
Mixing: Aswin Balgobind
Orquesta Bembe is a formation of twenty musicians playing authentic salsa music.
Orquesta Bembe started in 2001 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as a jam session for professional musicians from mixed culteres, with the purpose to play authentic salsa music on a high level.
Travelling back and forth from Puerto Rico to New York in the booming years of salsa music gave the director and founder of Bembe, Fernando Luis Garcia, the experience to recreate today the 'on fire' sound of those years and pass his knowledge and flavour on to other musicians.
Under his guidance the jam session grew out to be a professional big band with a repertoire including all styles like rumba, guaguancó, cha cha cha, bolero, bomba, merengue and latin jazz; songs from all the great 'masters' of salsa from the fifties up till now and original tunes by Fernando Luis Garcia.
The band keeps innovating and adding new tunes to the repertoire, in an effort to do justice to the originals and their composers,by bringing out the 'authentic fire' of salsa music.
Being a 20 piece orchestra makes orquesta Bembe unique in the salsa scene, its reminiscent sound and overwhelming rythms are garanteed to make any audience dance.
The founder and director of the band, Fernando Luis Garcia, studied classical trumpet at Rutgers University New Jersey and did his bachelors degree at the conservatory of music in Puerto Rico where he became a member of the famous symphony orchestra of Pablo Casal. He played the first trumpet with Rafael Cortijos' popular salsa band and with the Apollo sound orchestra. In Philadelphia he did his masters degree in classical trumpet and played jazz trumpet with the Philly Joe Jones band. Since 1985 he has been living in the Netherlands , where he first studied Jazz music at the Sweelinck Conservatory and later Baroque music. During that time he worked as a singer for the famous Platters, touring Europe, and he did the Boney M show for one year. He plays the principal trumpet for the Amstelveen Symphony Orchestra since 1990 and is founder and soloist of the 'Barocco Vivace' baroque ensemble since 1997. for more info on this look at www.myspace.com/baroccovivace
Now we present a new facet of the FLG Recording studios dedicated to Jazz:
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Freddy Garcia Back to Jazz with Guest Artists. Guest artists: Jens Lima Dos Santos, Ivo Claus, Wouter Popma, Marcos Betancourt, Paul Verkijk, Erik van der Weijde, Pieter Engels, Ton Derksen, Robert Mollee, Dirk Hoogland, Alberto van den Berg, Laura Reiman. Recorded at the FLG studio's Arranged by Jens Lima Dos Santos and Freddy Garcia Recording engineers Freddy Garcia, Laura Reiman
For information contact FLG productions, Graafschapstraat 15 1h 1079PE Amsterdam tel.: +31 20 6447309 e-mail: [email protected]
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