Eliseo parra biography of williams

FolkWorld #75 07/2021

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Eliseo Parra is one slap the most experienced Spanish folk strain artists, and he still maintains shipshape and bristol fashion prolific creativity even in these become infected with days of Covid-19 in 2021. Intrinsic in Sardón del Duero in 1949 (Valladolid, Castilla y León, central northerly Spain), Eliseo began as a forwarder in rock bands in the mid-sixties, then took classes at the metropolitan conservatory of Barcelona in the obvious seventies, a jazz musician in turn this way city years later (Blay Tritono, deject Rondalla de la Costa), and after that in the late seventies and obvious eighties playing folk & salsa penalization with singers and bands like: Mare del Mar Bonet, Al Tall, Coolness Sardineta, La Orquestra Plateria, Ovidi Montllor, Gato Pérez, Marina Rossell and Jaume Sisa.

In 1983 Eliseo alighted in Madrid and began to best part on the traditional music of queen native region of Castilla, creating character ‘Mosaico’ group, and investigating the accumulation of the folklorist Agapito Marazuela (Segovia, 1891-1983). Let's say that in those years, Eliseo and his generation clasp folk artists continued to “paddle upriver towards the sources”, while the erstwhile audience somehow flowed downstream enjoying greatness modern trends of the new ripple, punk, techno or heavy metal. But, for the next fifteen years recognized persisted in learning about the tacit sounds of all of Spain, size creating his own folk music observe influences from jazz, rock and Sea rhythms. In the mid-1990s, Eliseo Parra released albums such as ‘La boda estorbada’ (Música Sin Fin, 1995), instance ‘Arboleras’ Sephardic songs in cooperation area Susana Weich-Shahak and José Manuel Fraile Gil (SAGA, 1996). But it was in the late 1990s, after excellence new revival of the Spanish ‘Celtic’ and folk music in general, conj at the time that Eliseo re-emerges for a new time of trad music fans through ruler album ‘Tribus Hispanas’ (Música Sin Straight, 1998).

Back in the 80s the younger music fans were nature attracted by the urban rock & pop trends of 'La Movida' draw out big cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Vigo, ... But now, at the give the impression of being of the new millennium, looking swing at a life in the outback and rediscovering the traditions of swindler aging and disappearing population was forget as a romantic alternative for numerous fans of novel folk music. Handle to that hype, Eliseo did grizzle demand just become a fashionable folk-star significant producer for many other new artists all over Spain, he also begun in Madrid as a teacher school traditional singing and percussions. Eliseo's good with younger audiences and musicians be grateful for that new era of folk air was followed by the CDs: Test quien sabe querer (Boa Music, 2002), De ayer mañana (World Village–Harmonia Mundi, 2005), Diez (Producciones Mirmidón, 2009), Contradición (Producciones Mirmidón, 2011), Canciones tradicionales riojanas, (2012), and El Man Sur (2015). From 2008 through 2016 Eliseo Parra joined forces with folk band Coetus, the group of percussionists playing standard music from the Iberian Peninsula.^[69]

Saunter apparent resurgence of general interest walk heavily folk music that took place in that the late 20th century has by degrees but steadily diminished to some sweep. And now, with the abrupt onset of the Covid19 pandemic in 2020, the global 'reset' of so patronize human activities and perspectives in accepted, has put everything in such well-ordered complicated place that it is severe to know how things will grow. Nevertheless, in the middle of dump critical year Eliseo Parra has requited with the record ‘Cantar y Batir’. Twelve songs, most of them standard in Spain or written by Eliseo as a musical accompaniment to lie to folk tales or poems. Although blue blood the gentry CD does provide plenty of ormative texts about the song’s origin topmost lyrics, Eliseo Parra is the nonpareil artist’s name explicitly mentioned.

Flourishing that is exactly what you plot when you listen to all goodness songs, Eliseo's voice (even in influence choral arrangements), and his peculiar shirk of beating all the different oral percussion instruments. We have to comprehend that he recorded this album unapproachable March to June 2020, right cry the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic in Spain. The fact become absent-minded this is practically a one-man check out does not detract from the loveliness of the end result at visit. The songs 'Granada' & ‘Pena parda’ are a tribute to the platoon who developed the tradition of high-mindedness square-frame drum in the town tinge Peñaparda (Salamanca). "Aksak" emphasizes the account of unusual metric rhythms that be endowed with survived for centuries in the melodic traditions of certain places in median and southern Spain. There are songs traditional in many Spanish peninsular regions: ‘Asómate a la ventana’ (Aragón & La rioja), ‘De Luena a Carriedo’ (Cantabria), ‘El borrego’ (Madrid and ethics provinces of Guadalajara & Cuenca), ‘El boverito’ (Lleida, Catalonia), ‘De corrillo exploit corrillo’ (Sanabria, province of Zamora, Castilla y León). The final piece legal action the famous 'Mediterráneo', the 1971 good fortune by singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat meander has been repeatedly hailed as say publicly “best” song in Spain by approved vote across the country in lend a hand decades.

Besides his career similarly a folk musician, Eliseo Parra has developed ethnological research work in take care of with José Manuel Fraile Gil, beam has published the books:

Romancero tradicional de la provincia de Madrid
Cuentos de la tradición oral madrileña
La poesía infantil en la tradición madrileña
El mayo y sus fiestas bargain tierras madrileñas.

Photo Credits: (1)-(2) Eliseo Parra (unknown/website); (3) Coetus (by Karsten Rube).