Carlos Aguirre via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Carlos Aguirre
- City: Paraná, Entre Rios
- Country: Argentina
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Tras haber compartido prolíficas obras musicales como pianista junto a artistas como Lucho González, Luis Salinas, Quique Sinesi y Silvia Iriondo, entre otros, Carlos Aguirre comenzó a vincularse con la canción a través de su labor como arreglador de cantantes argentinos, peruanos y chilenos.
De esta relación con la música cantada y la literatura surgieron canciones que quedaron registradas en tres discos con su grupo, trabajos que tienen como característica una minuciosa elaboración de impronta artesanal y un exquisito sonido camarístico. En ese contexto, su relación con el eximio guitarrista entrerriano Eduardo Isaac le aportó el lenguaje universal del instrumento y, desde esa experiencia, escribió obras para las seis cuerdas y la recientemente estrenada “Escenas paranaenses’’, una suite para guitarra, percusión y orquesta.
Como pianista, editó el disco “Caminos” (2007, Shagrada Medra), de piano solo, donde plasmó gran parte de su formación camarística, sin dejar de lado el color folklórico latinoamericano.
La composición lo ha llevado a explorar distintas formaciones para liberar su música, entre las cuales se cuentan dúos con Jorge Fandermole, Juan Quintero, Francesca Ancarola y Hugo Fattoruso, entre otros.
“Para mí la música es resultado de un pensamiento. Y el pensamiento se construye con un montón de patas que arman los conceptos que uno sintetiza en lo que hace -expresa Aguirre-. Mi música es la lectura de un lugar, pero es la traducción de un mundo interior, que está atravesado por un montón de cosas, por la realidad más cercana, por realidades distantes y por un buen porcentaje de fantasía. Si uno piensa en un mundo ideal, en el mundo que uno quisiera habitar, y lo trabaja, va dando lugar a la gestación de un paisaje interno frondoso. Ese paisaje es el que vas trabajando a medida que desarrollás un trabajo creativo como componer una canción, una música. Por eso para mí es muy grato alimentar mi mundo con el mundo de otros creadores, con quienes disfruto y crezco en cada encuentro’’.
Contact Information
- Email: ceaguirre@yahoo.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: carlosaguirre.musico
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-BVBpCZ9DpSSC_1uWd-q0g
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC4c4HxYQ3xYNy9J15tDSZvQ
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6SFkAYs6D86IRcfbgOSyNH
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5WJwVcHKk36EIl7uHEBCfU
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4daLF4EkFjglsU6s5BqcHw
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
