Artist : Carlos N·±ez
Album : Brotherhood of Stars
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Year : 1996
Genre : galacia / celtic / world
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http://www.folkworld.de/3/carlos.html <--- article
Platinum with piping
Carlos N·±ez - one of the most exciting musicians in the world
http://www.carlos-nunez.com/carlos/ <--- official website
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http://www.allmusic.com/album/brotherhood-of-stars-r256765
This is the first major release of Galician (the strongly Celtic area of
northern Spain) gaita by Galician bagpipes player Carlos Nunez. This is a
stunning effort showing the strong influences of traditional Celtic music,
Spanish flamenco, and Latin American rhythms. Nunez has become closely
associated with the Chieftains since he first performed with them in 1989
and has since become the seventh member of the group, continually
performing with them throughout the world.
On this disc he uses a wide assortment of players in every type of
configuration the imagination can conceive of: Paddy Moloney, with and
without the rest of the Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Luz Casal, and his own
band, Diego Bouzon (Spanish guitar), Pancho Alvarez (bouzouki, mandolin,
acoustic guitar), Fernando Fraga (accordion, piano, keyboards), Marcos
Vasquez (bodhran, drum, tympani, percussion), Enrique Iglesias (violin),
and Carlos Nunez himself (gaita, recorder, whistle, ocarina, Jews harp).
The playing is stellar, also showing the guiding influence of Paddy
Moloney's careful production. The music unfolds like a carefully
orchestrated whole, starting with the beautiful opening of "Dawn," going
through all the changes and blending of his myriad influences, and ending
with the upbeat and driving rhythms of "Para Vigo Me Voy."
~ Bob Gottlieb, AllMusic
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http://www.allmusic.com/artist/carlos-nez-p167392
Carlos Nu±ez is the poster boy of Galician music, but it's a title he has
earned by both talent and hard work. With chops like Hendrix on the local
bagpipes (called gaita), but a penchant for researching the tradition and
its origins, he has become one of Spain's most recognizable musicians and
a major force behind the reconstruction of the Galician musical tradition.
Northern Spain has always been as much a part of the Celtic world as a
Romance country, with strong ties to both Ireland and Scotland, and it was
those Nu±ez has explored, as well as other strands which have taken his
music through flamenco and even into North Africa and the Middle East.
Under the dictatorial Franco regime, regional music in Spain was
suppressed, with flamenco -- actually an import -- becoming the national
sound. As a student of Baroque music at the Madrid Conservatory, Nu±ez
helped investigate and revitalize a great deal of what had been lost. But
even before that, he'd become something of a musical force, having begun
learning the pipes at age eight and performing soon after, actually having
his first international date when he was 13 at the Lorient Celtic Festival
in France, where he met Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains and suggested the
band make an album of Galician music. At 15, he recorded for the first
time, and three years later he was guesting with the Chieftains on the
soundtrack Treasure Island, one of the first discs to mix Irish and
Galician music. From there he seemed to become an extra Chieftain, touring
with them around the world and recording, before undertaking his solo
debut, Brotherhood of Stars. Given the number of guests, the record was
very aptly named -- over 50 artists lent their talents to the project,
including the Chieftains, Sinead O'Connor, Cuba's Vieja Trova Santiguera,
and Ry Cooder. The album was a major breakthrough for Galician music,
bringing it into the national spotlight, and becoming the first Celtic
album ever to go platinum in Spain. After touring in support of the
record, Nu±ez took time off to research the connections between his native
Galicia and the music of the south and east, which led to Os Amores Libres
in 2000, another star-studded disc -- over 80 guests this time around,
from Jackson Browne to Waterboy Mike Scott, and inevitably, the odd
Chieftain -- which took his sound in an entirely new direction, opening up
fresh landscapes for Galician music and keeping him ahead of a pack which
was growing behind him, while showing that he was more than just a
remarkable instrumentalist, but also a serious scholar of the genre.
~ Chris Nickson, AllMusic
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Track Listing
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1. Dawn (4:35)
2. Brotherhood of Stars (4:12)
3. Two Shores (4:03)
4. Black Shadow (5:28)
5. The Moonlight Piper (3:24)
6. Cantigueiras (4:12)
7. Galician Carol (3:10)
8. Dancing with Rosina (2:13)
9. Lela (3:55)
10. The Flight of the Earls (2:29)
11. The Rainmaker's Air (1:19)
12. Para Vigo me voy (2:39)
Total Playing Time: 41:44 (min:sec)
Total Size : 58.4 MB (61,287,537 bytes)
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