ChegaráMP3 album)

Brazilian flavors with Spanish and Portuguese influences, African connections and the superb voices of Jazz Lady Lenna Pablo (Rio de Janeiro), Luisão (Lisbon), Malagasy Gospel (a blind childrens choir from Madagascar), Beatrice Binotti, Gladston Galliza .

14 MP3 Songs in this album (41:45) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Bossa Nova, WORLD: Afro-Brazilian

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Guitarist, composer and producer born in Madrid, Spain. Considered by the critics one of the most prominent players of new Spanish instrumental music. He has edited six CDs produced alongside Carmen Ros, five of them recorded at his home studio.

He has already published Chegará, who throws himself into the songwriting, together with Carmen Ros, author of lyrics and co-producer of this new work.

Julio García plays the acoustic guitar, the bass, the keyboard, the vibraphone, the xylophone and percussions⦠reaching a total of twenty-five instruments and objects that produce sound, as kitchen objects.

This work begun in 2005, was filled with an amount of outlines of songs that point out Brazil. Finally, it was recorded in Madrid, in Julio Garcíaâs own studio a with musicians and singers from three different continents -America, Africa and Europe- who had travelled a long distance to get Spain.

In 2006 we find out in a concert the great Brazilian Lady of Jazz, Lenna Pablo. Later, in 2007, we contacted her through âMyspaceâ and we showed her the project we had in mind. In March of 2008 the recording begun.

Then, the voices of the Portuguese singer Luisão, Beatrice Binotti, the Brazilian Gladston Galliza, Jomar Maqués, the chorus by Carmen Ros, the Argentinean singer Gabriela Maiztegui and the very special collaboration of Malagasy Gospel, a blind children choir and ex-workers from Madagascar salt mines.

Some reviews of Julio Garcia´s music

BBC RADIO 6 Introducing with Tom Robinson

"Absolutely gorgeous! Featuring vocals by Carmen Ros thatâs the mysterious and haunting track âHechizoâ by Madrid based guitarist, composer and producer, Julio García, which you can hear at www.myspace.com/juliogarcia00. You can also preview track to his sixth album âChegaráâ which features Brazilian singer Lenna Pablo, Portuguese vocalist Luisao, and other collaborators."


WORLD MUSIC CENTRAL by Angel Romero

Not all Spanish guitarists play Flamenco. Madrid-based acoustic guitarist Julio García performs creative and esthetically beautiful acoustic music that combines Spanish folk influences with classical music and world music elements.

"Ser" is Julio García's 5th album, which was produced with support of Fundación Ananta. In this recording, vocals play a bigger role, together with a trio of strings. In addition to García's guitar, there is bansuri and bandoneón.

The musicians that collaborate with Julio García on the Cd are some of Madrid's finest. Teresa Barrientos, (a former member of Joan Valent's Ars Ensemble and headliner in the Spanish version of Phantom of the opera), Helena de Alfonso (lead singer of one of the finest Spanish folk groups, Barahúnda), the young Lara Rosales (who is only 17 years old) and Carmen Ros, who co-wrote some of the songs.

The string trio is formed by Juan Luis Gallego on violin, Cristina Pozas on viola and Miguel Jiménez on cello. The bansuri is played by one of the luminaries of Spanish world music, Javier Paxariño. Julio Albertos plays flute, Fabián Carbone (of tango group Tango Quattro) plays bandoneón and José Miguel Garzón (who performs with Flamenco star Joaquín Cortés) plays bass.