I couldn’t wait to show you the second #Koversindykate video!! This time, we do our best with the song #youknowimnogood by the great #AmyWinehouse, performed by Ainoa (vocals), Carlos Núñez (drums) and me (guitar, bass, flute, cello, and charango). As usual, we tried to apply our personal vision, but respecting the original emotional code. I […]
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Today I’m so pleased of sharing with you the release of the paper “The style of Roy Eldridge in 1938: Analytical study through two improvisations on ‘Body and Soul’” in Jazz Research Journal, Equinox Publishing (England). For me, publishing a paper on an American trumpeter in one of the more important (maybe the most) jazz […]
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I’m happy to announce the birth of a new music project in which I’m involved, along with my lifelong friends and former band mates Carlos Núñez and Germán Villén. It’s called Kover Sindykate, and basically, it’s a collaborative surface for musicians adapted to the COVID19 situation. The idea is creating covers of artists we like […]
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These last weeks are being especially intense in terms of releases, both in the music and research fields. This time, I share a new Production Music album with a clear childhood mood, “Sparkles” (Cute Music Library, 2021), in which I composed four tracks (Big Boots Little Feet, Summer Babies, Walkabout Sunday y Fresh New Morning) […]
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I’m very happy to announce the publication of the book “Música y Pantallas: cultura, sociedad, educación”, edited by Enrique Encabo (Editorial Difácil). This book includes one chapter written by Rocío Muñoz Suárez, Vanessa Porras Benítez and I, named “Diseño y Desarrollo de audiocuentos como recurso educativo: una experiencia interdisciplinar en las aulas de Primaria y […]
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Last week, the album “Latin Nights” (Color TV, Warner Chappell PM), composed by Ross Mclean and I during the last part of 2020. It’s a series of tracks full of Latin and flamenco references, in which we’ve tried to recreate emotive and intense atmospheres with a clearly evocative orientation. This is the description on the […]
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Last Wednesday I had my last (and virtual) session with my Music Education students. They surprised me at the end of the session sharing with me a letter full of respect, affection and gratitude. I was overwhelmed emotionally, since this year we (students and me) had to make a lot of sacrifices and extra work […]
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I’m aware the release of papers in academic journals is not very popular when shared in the social media, but since it’s the result of countless hours of research, work and sacrifice, I’m going to keep doing it in order to provide those papers as much visibility as I can. Today, I’m proud to share […]
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Looks like in these uncertain times, music, as the rest of Arts, is one of the few things that helps us to get over this situation as much as possible. In this context emerges this new video of the project Zagalaz, the second of the three tracks live recorded last 25th of January. So, the […]
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Today I share with all you “Peaceful Pastoral”, the second full production music album I composed along with master @ross_andrew_mclean during the first lockdown and published by @evolutionmediamusic It’s based mainly on acoustic guitars and banjo, with a positive and calming atmosphere, and there are really nice and beautiful pieces! Again, an amazing experience, I’m totally delighted working with […]
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