Contradanza (band)
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This article is about the band. For dance form, see Contradanza (dance).
Contradanza is an folk and acoustic music band formed in 1998 in Sevilla (Andalucia, Spain), playing traditional music as well as original compositions in the style.
Contradanza offers a different perspective of folk and traditional music by collecting various influences they manage to blend in their acoustic mixer: traditional music, flamenco, jazz, arab music, renaissance dances... Special focus is made on the revision of traditional ballads and of Andalusian popular lyrical poems as well as on the composition of their own pieces based on the study of contemporary Spanish poetry.
[edit] Discography
- Mar de Fondo (Galileo, 2003)
- Meridional (Galileo, 2006)
[edit] Band members
- Ricardo de Castro: Acoustic guitar, mandola and voice.
- Rafa Alvarez: Accordion and flutes.
- Fernando García Conde: Drums, Arab & African percussion (djembe, bendhir, darbuka...)...
- Jesus García. Fiddle and mandolin.
- Antón Ramírez: Bass.
