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Members featured in the album
FERNANDO P. SAMALEA - Bandoneón, drums, glockenspiel, steel drum, Egyptian darbouka, balafón Marrocco tam-tam, cascabel, keyboards and miscelaneas
Guest musicians:
FENANDO KABUSACKI - Guitars, process and loops
DANIEL MELINGO - Clarinet and tenor sax
NIRANKAR SINGH KHALSA - Hindu Tabla, flautes, Egyptian darbouka, snail, hawk bells and shakers
TONY LEVIN - Double bass
Members featured in the album
FERNANDO P. SAMALEA - Bandoneón, glockenspiel, drums, crotals, balafón, darbouka, gongs, hawk bells, tymbal, keyboards and miscelaneas
Guest musicians:
MIGUEL GARCÍA - Rhodes piano, moog and synths
FENANDO KABUSACKI - Electric and synth guitars
NATALIA MÉNDEZ - Vocals
MARÍA GABRIELA EPUMER - Electric guitars and e-bow
RAMIRO MUSOTTO - Berimbau and loop xavante
NURIA MARTINEZ - Tarkas, quenas, caja and charango
ZHANG DAMING - Narrative and Chinese poetry
TONY LEVIN - Bass and NS electric upright bass
Members featured in the album
FERNANDO P. SAMALEA - Bandoneón, vibraphone, glockenspiel, drums and percussion
Guest musicians:
MATÍAS MANGO - Piano, organ and synths
GUSTAVO CERATI - Electric & acoustic guitar
ALEJANDRO TERÁN - Viola, clarinet and tenor sax
FENANDO KABUSACKI - Electric guitar
MIGUEL ANGEL TALLARITA - Trumpet andflugelhorn
PAUL DORGE - Bass
TONY LEVIN - Double bass and bass
Biography
Fernando Samalea (bandonoeonist-drummer-composerr from Buenos Aires) who release CD-Books, instrumental music adn tales writing by himself. It's a blend of Tango, Jazz, Rock, Flamenco, Oriental & Electronic Music.
The music was recorded in trips to Morocco, Brazil, Spain, France, U.S.A. y Argentine with the support of musicians like Tony Levin, Nirankar Khalsa, Daniel Melingo, Fernando Kabusacki, Miguel García, Adalberto Cevasco, Horacio Icasto, Andrés Calamaro, Diego Galaz, María Albistur, Javier Malosetti, Bob Sands and the Gnawa Express Group.
During 1995-1996 he was an active promoter of the "Montecarlo Jazz Ensamble" two albums with María Gabriela Epumer and Chiche Bermúdez. The total benefits of which were intented to go to associations for the preservation of native reservation.
The project brought together more than fifty Argentine Rap, Jazz, Rock, Hip-Hop, Tango, Autoctonal and experimental artists, among them Fat's Fernández, Jorge Navarro, Horacio Ferrer, Inti Huamaní, Horacio Minicillo, Dante Spinetta, Emmanuel Horvilleur and Lucas Martí.
In 1997 he recorded the conceptual CD "Hal 9000" together with piano player Mariano Gianni ad bassist Fernando Nolé, making versions of old Jazz pieces with bandoneón, electronic treatments and samplers of Kubrick's film "2001: a space odyssey".
He has participated since the mid-eighties - both as a drummer and bandoneón player - in Charly García's group, Illya Kuryaki & the Valderramas, Andrés Calamaro, Metrópoli, Clap, Fricción, |A - Tirador Láser|, Los Gauchos Alemanes, Daniel Melingo, Draco Cornelius Rosa, La Máscara Quartet, Man Ray, Contramano, Willy Crook, Alberto Lucas, Belmondo and Samalea-Kabusacki-García trio.
In Spain he recorded and touring with Joaquín Sabina, Luis Pastor, David Broza, Andrés Calamaro, María Eva Albistur, Leo Minas, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Los Cucas, Jorge Drexler, Los Lunes, DJ Kun, Andy Chango, La Tercera República, Alejo Stivel, Vanito Brown y Pasión Vega, among others.
In 2010 he won the Premios Gardel for "Best Instrumental Album" with "Primicia".
Between March and April of 2017 he made the "Mototour" duet with the composer, singer and plastic artist Marina Fages. It was a South American motorcycle tour through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, in which they traveled to pure adventure more than 11,000 kilometers to offer 25 concerts.
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