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Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Piano, electric piano, organ, synths, samplers, melodica, vocoder, Minimoog bass, toys and chorus
DANIEL JOHANSEN - Tenor and soprano sax
ANDRÉS ROT - Electric bass and double bass
TOMÁS BABJACZUK - Drums
BETO MERINO - Bombo legüero, timbals, congas, bongo, redoblantes, surdos, djembé y accesories
Gust musicians:
JUAN CARLOS BAGLIETTO - Vocals
VÍCTOR SKORUPSKI - Contralto flute and bass clarinet
PABLO RODRÍGUEZ - Baritone sax
JUAN CRUZ DE URQUIZA - Trumpet and flugelhorn
GREGORIO RAFFO - Vocal samples
GIGAENSAMBLE CHACARITA - Strings
LUCHO GONZÁLEZ - Criolla guitar
SEBASTIÁN PRUSAK - Violin
CARLOS NOZZI - Cello
JUAN DARGENTON - Bandoneon
FRANSISCO "Cicatriz" y "Artigaz, mano izquierda" RIVERO – Electric and criolla guitar
Rataplán:
Cuerda de tambores de candombe
Pablo Belmes, Lele Carroll y José Ureta: Chicos
Lucas Helguero y Néstor Rijo: Repiques
Santiago Lemos y Agustín Traversa Moré: Pianos
Banda de Semáforo:
Luis Bacqué: Trumpets and trombones
Juan Raffo: Redoblante and tube sinth
César Borra: Bombo
Juan Junca: Dishes
Coro de advertencia:
Tomás Babjaczuk, Paola Hidalgo, Juan Junca, Luciano Maldonado, Beto Merino, Emiliano Messiez, Matías Ortiz, Alan Plachta, Juan Raffo, Luis Serna
Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Acoustic piano, electric piano, Rhodes, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, electric piano CP80, Minimoog, accordion, melodica, claps, sampled percussion, celesta sampler, snap fingers, and chorus
MARTÍN RUR - Soprano and tenor sax, clarinet and comments
PABLO MARTÍN - 6 strings electric bass, fretless bass and double bass
RODRIGO GENNI - Drums and redoblantes
BETO MERINO - Percussion, timbals, congas, derbakes, flexatone, whistle, surdos, djembé, repique, cajón, udu, triangel, tubular bells, pandeiro, shakers, agogó, caxixi, carillón, espátula, cencerro, woods, chinese box, snap fingers, effects and clips
Guest Musicians:
RICHARD NANT - Trumpet and flugelhorn
DIEGO URCOLA - Trumpet and trombones
MARCELO “BEBE” FERREYRA - Trombone
FEDERICO MARQUESTÓ - Criolla guitar and guitarrón
MARTÍN PANTYRER - Comments do Brasil
FERNANDO LERMAN - Flute
VÍCTOR SKORUPSKI - Clarion
FERNANDO CHIAPPERO - Horn and clarion
LUCIANO JUNGMAN - Bandoneon
SEBASTIÁN PRUSAK - Violin
SERGIO POLIZZI - Violin
ELIZABETH RIDOLFI - Violin and viola
MARÍA EUGENIA CASTRO - Cello
NICOLÁS ROSSI - Cello
FABIÁN KEOROGLANIÁN - Vibraphone
TOMÁS BABJACZUK - Drums
PABLO RODRÍGUEZ - Baritone sax
LILIANA JAKUBOWICZ - Violin
ALEJANDRO SCHAIKIS - Violin
SERDAR GELDYMURADOV - Violin
BANJAMÍN BRU PESCE - Viola
PEDRO CRUZ - Vocals
PABLO MARCHETTI - Vocals
CLAUDIO ORELLANO - Locution
Grupo Coral Cabernet:
Marcos Lozano, Diego Mercado (Sapucai), Manuel Moreira, Ale Dolina, Diego Pietropalo y Pol González
Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Acoustic, electric and digital piano, organ, synthr, accordion and melodica
MARTÍN RUR - Tenor and soprano sax, clarinet and claron
TOMÁS PAGANO - 6 strings electric bass
RODRIGO GENNI - Drums and loops
Guest Musicians:
BETO MERINO - Tumbadoras, caxixi, tambor chico, wankara, pezuñas, shaker, cajón and bells
JONATAN SZER - Pandeiro
CÉSAR SILVA - Electric guitar
SEBASTIÁN PRUSAK - Violín
Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Acoustic piano
MARTÍN RUR - Soprano sax, clarinet and claron
TOMÁS PAGANO - Electric bass
RODRIGO GENNI - Drums
Guest Musicians:
MARCELA GALVÁN ALBERTI - Flute and claps
FERNANDO LERMAN - Contralto flute, piccolo and claps
BETO MERINO - Percussion
NORA SARMORIA - Accordion and vocals
Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Keyboards
MARTÍN RUR - Saxs
TOMÁS PAGANO - Bass
RODRIGO GENNI - Drums
Guest Musicians:
FACUNDO GUEVARA - Percussion
PABLO ASLAN - Bandoneón and violin
Members featured in the album
JUAN “POLLO” RAFFO - Keyboards
TOMÁS PAGANO - Bass
RODRIGO GENNI - Drums
Biography
Juan “Pollo” Raffo (Buenos Aires, 1959) is a composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardist and music teacher. He exercises all these activities at once, making efforts so they not interfere with each other but become mutually reinforced. He began his piano studies at the age of 8, learning “The First Loss” (“Erster Verlust”) by Robert Schumann. Such initiation prompted him to seek after a tragic sense in music. This he has accomplished sometimes, while others he has achieved the opposite, attaining not quite as desirable humorous results.
He has had the good fortune of having great teachers, starting with his own family. In the academic field, he has received a Summa Cum Laude Diploma in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a Master of Arts degree in Composition from New York University (NYU), having pursued this graduate study under the auspices of a Fulbright scholarship.
In 2015 he received the Konex Platinum Award to popular music as the prime exponent of the decade 2005-2014 in the discipline “Instrumental / Fusion”.
He has led various cult groups in the Argentinean contemporary popular music scene, such as Trigémino (Trigeminal) in the 70’s, El Güevo (“The Egg”) in the 80’s and Monos con Navajas (“Monkeys with Knives,” co-led with bassist Willy González) in the 90’s, which was commended by the Konex foundation as one of the top five jazz ensembles in the decade spanning 1985-1994.
Simultaneously, he has worked as an arranger, keyboardist and/or musical director for some of the most outstanding representatives of the Argentinean popular music: Juan Carlos Baglietto, Soda Stereo, León Gieco, Los Piojos, Divididos, No Te Va Gustar, Fito Páez, Manuel Wirzt, Ratones Paranoicos, Ciro y Los Persas, Juanse, Vox Dei, Miguel Cantilo, Los Gardelitos, El Bordo, Nito Mestre, María Rosa Yorio, Moris, Roque Narvaja, Fontova, Sueter, Celeste Carballo and Julia Zenko. In 2003 he produced the album “Soundances”, by trumpeter Diego Urcola, who won twice Grammy nomination (USA Grammys and Latin Grammys) in the category “Best Latin Jazz Album”. In 2006 he composed music for the album “Viva” by the same artist, which also involved Paquito D’Rivera and Dave Samuels. This latter work was also nominated for a Grammy in the same category.
Since 1990, he has been carrying out extensive teaching activities in the areas of arranging, composition, keyboards, ensemble workshops and music appreciation, making idle efforts not to arouse in his students his own obsessions. He is currently teacher at the Academic Center for Global Education at the University of New York (NYU), the Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC, member of the Berklee International Network) and the Tamaba institute.
Since 2003 he leads “Raffo”, the group dedicated to the interpretation of his own compositions that combine the rhythms and the character of South American music with the spirit of jazz improvisation. These elements flow through formal structures and compositional developments that are usually associated with academic music, resulting in an unstable blend of erudition and unruliness.
To date the band has released six albums, the volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 y 6 of the series “Music from Flores” (after the Buenos Aires neighborhood of the same name). These are “Guarda que Viene el Tren (2006), “Diatónicos Anónimos” (2010), “Al Sur del Maldonado” (2013), “Brindis” (2016), “Llueve Sobre la Biblioteca Nacional” (2019) and “La Falacia del Espantapájaros” (2023).
Simultaneously with his activity with the group, Juan Raffo plays his compositions and arrangements in solo piano format. In addition, he performs in duo with guitarist Alan Plachta, integrates the collective of composers and performers Ensamble Real Book Argentina and is a guest composer and conductor for the Boris Big Band. He has also premiered several works of symphonic and chamber music, some of them in the city of New York and some others in Buenos Aires.
“Llueve sobre la Biblioteca Nacional” is the fifth volume of the group and the third consecutive with the quartet that complete Martín Rur in saxophones and clarinets, Tomás Pagano in bass, and Rodrigo Genni in drums. It was recorded and mixed by César Silva and mastered by Andrés Mayo. Edited by Pai Records in June 2019.
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* Juan “Pollo” Raffo official site
# Apologies, translated by https://translate.google.com.ar