Mentions of flamenco influences raise sharp responses: To many music fans, it sounds like flamenco, and were great flamenco fans, but we dont play it says Gabriela.Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock and often imbued with timeless Hispano classical influences.The fire in their music comes from their life-long passion for metal music.
In spring 2006, Rodrigo y Gabriela, beat both the Arctic Monkeys AND Johnny Cash to number one in the Irish charts. Both the artists and their third selftitled album have gone on to enjoy international success since its initial release in early 2006. Her percussionists thrashing of strings and drumming of the instruments body inevitably raises comparisons with the flamenco style of rumba, but the band specifically denies a flamenco influence. Nonetheless, it is often referred to as nuevo flamenco, symbolising a sort of renaissance of the traditionally Spanish music genre whose origins began in the Middle East when the Moors brought their cultural music to Europe. The duos repertoire flies beyond familiar latin folk guitarists styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven and Metallicas Orion are musts, and the presence on Ixtapa of the fiery hungarian gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is inspirational. Rodrigo Y Gabriela Taun Mp3 Code Word HeRodrigo was playing drums in his band Castlow - a code word he never revealed to Gabriela, and changed to Tierra Acida (Acid Earth) when she joined them on guitar. The couple drifted together through music; teenaged metal fanatics who both failed entrance to the Conservatory and moved into rock. Before joining Tierra Acida, Gabriela ran three girls bands, Las Brujas (The Witches), Subterraneo and Las Formigas (The Ants) at once: Terra Acida had a disciplined work ethic: It was mental she recalls, we rehearsed five hours a day, every day, with very short breaks, and not much talking Tierra Acida played in Mexico Citys roughest clubs and lived off day-jobs (Gabriela taught Metallica riffs to local kids; Rodrigo at a TV station, doing music for programmes). They recorded an album but wouldnt sign the record contract, planning instead to concentrate on learning more guitar styles. In fact, they just hung out with friends and survived by playing bossa novas in the hotel bars. ![]() They landed in Dublin at night, spoke no English, and had 1,000 between them. Rodrigo Y Gabriela Taun Mp3 Driver Drove ThemThey found a note on the door saying actually, sorry, but they couldnt stay there after all, so the taxi driver drove them round hostels and hotels all night. ![]() That was 1999: We were very exotic specimens They built a reputation and landed gigs in peoples homes, at wedding parties and gallery openings, playing covers and their own compositions, We still wanted to be metal composers, but everything came out as Latin Dublin was booming then, with new music venues and galleries and a thriving rock scene, and the two Mexicans jammed with local folk musicians in the bars. In winter, they moved to Denmark and started again - this time busking at minus three degrees The brief Copenhagen experience inspired two numbers on the current album, Diablo Rojo, a scary roller-coaster ride in the city, and Viking Man, their nickname for a homeless man they befriended, who pushed them into busking on the freezing streets. Next, they hit Barcelona, but this time, the club owners assumed they played mariachi, and wouldnt let them play in their own unique style, so Rod Gab ended up jamming on Barcas main drag Las Ramblas getting heavy duty hassle from the Catalan cops. Just in time, a call came from Ireland to come back and play the newly opened Sugar Club. Damian Rice, then a busking friend, invited them to support his shows, and in 2003, they released re-Foc, and a year later, Live Manchester And Dublin, which both launched them onto the world music circuit and beyond. The Music: Rodrigo and Gabriela describe their style as fusion music: Its mainly got latin harmonies and rhythms but the structure is rock. Its not jazz because its structured, and we dont improvise; our solos are exactly whats on the record, as a metal fan and guitarist you always want to hear the same fking solo Influences range from family salsa records to Gabrielas aunts pink floyd, black sabbath, queen, and led zeppelin vinyl, with Rodrigo also embracing a similar classic rock lineage. People expected two acoustic guitarists would play classical music, but we dropped in extracts from Led Zep, Hendrix and Metallica, then we did the same with Stairway to Heaven Their music is instrumental with very lyrical themes.
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