ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ BARRANCO & The Drumming Society Presents his NEW ALBUM "Caprichos del destino" ("Whims of fate") An album dedicated to percussion and sounds layers, very accurate in its production and with the natural sounds of the instruments themselves, creating a magical music full of rhythm and tonal subtleness. An album with a lot of different aromas and fresh air, created to enjoy, dance, sing, laugh, sleep or dream. A distinctive music project with a sound of its own. Fresh music to our ears! The percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and "sound-effect-maker" Antonio Sánchez Barranco (known for playing with great and renowned artists like: Maria del Mar Bonet, Miguel Poveda, Silvia Perez Cruz, Coetus, Eliseo Parra, Tactequeté, Kepa Junquera, Misirli Ahmet, Chicago Symphony) presents his first solo recording project "Caprichos del destino " a frenetic album, full of rhythm and power own to a percussion "alchemist". A tight and interactive live show recommended for all ages and audiences based on voices and percussions from the five continents.
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ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ BARRANCO & The Drumming Society
Presents his NEW ALBUM "Caprichos del destino" ("Whims of fate")
An album dedicated to percussion and sounds layers, very accurate in its production
and with the natural sounds of the instruments themselves, creating a magical music full of rhythm and tonal subtleness.
An album with a lot of different aromas and fresh air, created to enjoy, dance, sing,
laugh, sleep or dream.
A distinctive music project with a sound of its own. Fresh music to our ears!
The percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and "sound-effect-maker" Antonio Sánchez
Barranco (known for playing with great and renowned artists like: Maria del Mar
• Sol Homar - (Sol y los Pintasueños) Voices and Percussion
• Aleix Tobías - (Dir. de Coetus) Voices, Drums and Percussion
• Joel Sánchez - (The City Jungle) Drums and Percussion
• Angelo Mahenzane - (Electric Gozarela) Berimbao, Percussion and Effects
• Anna Tobías - (Coetus) Bass and Percussion
Antonio Sánchez Barranco & The Drumming Society
Presenting his new show "Caprichos del destino"
Usually in music groups, percussion is only used as accompaniment, sometimes as a solo
element, but mostly to tighten the rhythm and enhance the musical "taste". In this case,
Antonio Sánchez Barranco & The Drumming Society presents a show where
the percussion is the main engine.
The show is not just perceived as a plain percussion set, Antonio is accompanied by excellent musicians like the great master of Iberian percussion and multi-ethnic drummer - Aleix Tobias (founder of Coetus), the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mel Seme (Black
Gandhi), voices and percussion of Sol Homar (Sol y los Pintasueños), the excellent percussionist Angelo Mahenzane (Electric Gozarela), the youth and energy of Joel
Sanchez (Maracatú) and the bass and percussions of Anna Tobias (Coetus). Que se
fusionan para crear un directo divertidísimo, interactivo y para todos los públicos, basado en las voces, en los paisajes sonoros y las diferentes percusiones de los cinco continentes.
Antonio achieved to create a fun, interactive live show recommended for all ages based on
voices and percussions from the five continents blending the following elements: Iberian
ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ BARRANCO Barcelona 1969 – percussionist and sound effect maker
Antonio Sánchez Barranco is an interpreter and session musician in different recordings and musical productions, as well in cinema, radio and television. He has collaborated with the great darbuka master Misirli Ahmet (Turkey), María del Mar Bonet, Coetus (percussion orchestra of the Iberian Peninsula) and Silvia Pérez Cruz. At the current
moment he dedicates himself to his new musical project "Caprichos del destino" with his ensemble "Antonio Sánchez Barranco & The Drumming Society".
He is the director of the percussionists’ band Maracatú and is also the head of Maracatú junior and Maracatú Baby for the youngest ones. He has given classes at the Modern Music School
of Badalona, at Espai Avinyó (Barcelona), at Music School of Tiana and Espai Tempo (Torrelles Ll.), likewise workshops and courses in the universities of Barcelona, Lleida and Girona. He has also taught in campuses such as Festcat of popular culture, also in schools, events and festivals. Furthermore, he has collaborated, amongst other artists and groups, with the Doudou Ndiaye Rose family, Miguel Poveda, Chicuelo, Hossan Ramzi, Erkan Ogur, Ismail Tunçbilek, Levent Yildirim, Angelika Akbar, Brian Dunnin, Amine & Hamza, Benjamin Taubkin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mercedes Peon, Amancio Prada, Miquel Gil, Gerard Quintana, Marina Rosell, Lluís Llach, Miguel Bosé, Víctor Manuel and Ana Belén. Besides, he has worked with various theatre companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Goc i magoc, Comedians, Classical Theatre Company of Madrid, Teatre Lliure directed by Lluis Pascual (with Carmen Machi and Rosa Maria Sarda) and with the National Dance Company directed by Nacho Duato.
Antonio Barranco has also co-operated in the making of soundtracks for movies like “El amante bilingüe” by Vicente Aranda (The Bilingual Lover), “Sexo por compassion” by Laura Mañá (Sex for compassion), “Arachnid” by Jack Sholder and “Km 31” by
Rigoberto Castañeda. He has performed in various international festivals in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Ireland, England, Scotland, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and the US and at venues such as The Royal Festival Hall (London), The Opera House (Cairo), Castro Alves Theatre (Salvador de Bahia), Millennium Park Festival (Chicago) and The Metropolitan (New York). Among his discography he is present on recordings of artists like Maria del Mar Bonet, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Eliseo Parra, Lidia Pujol, Joan Isaac, Miquel Gil, Rosa Zaragoza, Marina Rossell, Kepa Junkera (with Glen Vélez, Andy Narel and Marco Suzano), Alfonso Vilallonga, Los Amaya, DJ José Padilla, Balearic Symphony
Orchestra, UTROPIC, Coetus, Tactequeté, Perico Sambeat, Misirli Ahmet, an Jerry González, etc.
MEL SEME
Born in Camagüey, Cuba, to Haitian parents, Mel Semé began his musical career at the Baptist church in his village by the hands of his brothers and in the company of older musicians who interpreted a sort of Latin gospel, influenced by missionaries who came often to Cuba from the South of the United States. At his early age curiosity for composition and various instruments arose in him among which the guitar, piano and drums highlighted.
After graduating from the University of Music of Havana, joining the Symphony Orchestra of Havana and Symphony Orchestra of Camagüey, Mel Seme lived in Switzerland for a season teaching percussion and interpretation. After travelling through Europe on tours with different musical projects (Jane Bunnet, David Virelles, Master Fatman, etc.) in countries like Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Netherlands,
Belgium and Sweden, his intellectual search took him to Denmark. There he lived for
a while and widened his musical knowledge by sharing stage with musicians of the Scandinavian scene. Since 2003 he has been living in Catalonia, Spain. Mel Seme has shared the stage with musicians like Youssou Ndour, Steward Copeland, Kymani Marley, Giovanni Hidalgo, Nicholas Payton, Steve Coleman, Fito Paez, etc.
He is currently the leader of Black Gandhi and collaborator in compositions and arrangements in projects such as Man Ex Maquina, Barcelona Sessions, Solimel,
among others.
SOL HOMAR Buenos Aires 1979 – percussionist, singer and composer
Sol Homar grew up in Montevideo surrounded by candombe culture (traditional Afro Uruguayan music) thanks to which she found her love for the drum.
She started her career as a percussionist in Buenos Aires at the age of sixteen with Horacio López and
discovered the vastness of the black culture and its branches. At the age of eighteen she travelled to Cuba to study traditional and contemporary percussion with teachers of Havana's Superior Institute of Art.
She returned to Buenos Aires and participated in the creation of several projects of traditional Latin American music. Amapolea, Tamboro Mutanta and Nvira Ungue are the projects that can be found
amongst them with which she also toured throughout Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Europe. She interacts with musicians from Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and several regions of Africa for over a decade, thus going in depth into the music of these
cultures. She has worked in theatre and dance companies as a composer and performer and in music sessions in bands of various genres. Recent projects she has participated in are, amongst others, Mel Seme Group, Marinah y los argonautas (the singer of Ojos de Brujo), Made in Northeast (Munir Hossn).
She has shared the Stage with musicians like Alex Acuña, Giovanni Hidalgo, Gilberto Gil, Carlinhos Brown, Marcos Suzano, Manu Chao, Pepe Hevia, Marinah, Munir Hossn, etc.
She currently lives in Catalonia and forms part of groups like Solimel, Black Gandhi, BDB, Two Sistass, Mel Seme Group, Antonio Sánchez & The Drumming Society, plus leads her own project Sol y los Pintasueños.
ALEIX TOBÍAS
Alex Tobias started to play different percussion
instruments at the age of nineteen and studied drums
and percussion in different modern music
conservatories in Barcelona. He later continued his
individual formation by learning traditional
percussions in different countries like Senegal,
Gambia, Turkey, Brazil, Spain and Egypt.
He has played with great artists along his career such
as Misirli Ahmet, Erkan Ogur, Ekan Irmak, Kostas
Anastasiadis, Doudou N´Diaye Rose, Sengane
N´Gom, Eliseo Parra, Lidia Pujol, Silvia Perez
Cruz, Carmen Paris, Amine & Hamza, La Shica,
Kepa Junquera and the flamenco company of
Emilio Hernández.
He has toured whole Europe, Canada, the United
States, Brazil, Mexico, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Senegal with those artists.
He is the founder of the experimental percussion group TACTEQUETE, as well of the
Iberian Percussion orchestra - COETUS.
He has participated in more than 40 recordings of different musicians and groups.
JOEL SÁNCHEZ 1997 – drummer and percussionist
Joel Sánchez has been in close contact with music since he was born, especially with percussion instruments as his father is a percussionist Antonio Sánchez Barranco (Maria del Mar Bonet, Misirli
Ahmet, Tactequeté, Coetus, etc.).
He started to receive regular drums and percussion classes at the age of five with professors such as Antonio Sánchez Barranco (his actual percussion professor), Aleix Tobias, Martí Hosta (his actual drum-set teacher), Angelo Mahenzane, Didac Ruiz, etc. When he was eight years old he collaborated with the “Atrapa sons” program of TV3 where he
shared the stage with the great multi instrumentalist Xavi Lozano and the Maracatú group. At the age of twelve he started to study the piano and musical language. He is currently studying at the Modern
Music School of Badalona.
As music has always had a very special place in his house, Joel Sánchez has had the opportunity to play in many concerts by accompanying his father: in the monasteries of Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Sant Pere de Rodes, in “La Cerimònia de la Llum” of Lidia
Pujol, as well to share the stage with the great folklorist, percussionist and singer Eliseo Parra, plus Silvia Pérez Cruz, the Doudou N’diaye Rose family, Coetus and finally, with Tactequeté in “Festes de la Mercè” at the Plaza Cataluña of Barcelona in
front of 5000 people. In “Festes de la Mercè” he also performed with a vocal group Esclat Gospel Singels, directed by the master Ramon Escalé and formed by great musicians such as Mel Semé (Black Gandhi), Didac Ruiz (Franz Ferdinand, Talkin
Tara) and Antonio Sánchez Barranco.
In Thanksgiving (Fiestas de Gracias) he performed as a “grant holder” with the orchestra of the Iberian percussion Coetus together with the wonderful voices of Eliseo Parra, Judith Nedderman and Ana Ros and with Xavi Lozano on wind
instruments, all directed by Aleix Tobias.
He has also performed with the Galician folklore Singer Davide Salvado in the Basque centre “Euskal Etxea” together with the “Cor de Noies de Matadepera” directed by
Jaume Sala and with a reggae group Sound Catalans in the Razzmatzz1 venue.
At the current moment he plays in the Batucada group Maracatú and leads the Maracatú junior of the little ones. He also plays in Antonio Sánchez Barranco & The Drumming Society and in his own bands Rumba Ke D Rumba (Catalonian rumba) and
The City Jungle (reggae&dancehall).
ANGELO MAHENZANE
Angelo comes from an artistic family and started to feel at
a very early age that the music, especially the
percussion, attracted his attention a lot. He studied at the
Music School of Badalona with Ernest Martinez, Tito
Busquest as well with Antonio Sanchez, Hector la
Rosa, Aleix Tobias and David Lillo.
From the very start he was interested in different textures
that different percussions had to offer him and thanks to
this shared the stage with artists like Silvia Perez Cruz,
Lidia Pujol, Familia Doudou N´dyae Rose, Inma Ortiz,
Jordi Bonell, Vicencs Solsona, Big Mama, Almasala,
Tactequete, Tara, Raul rodriguez, Carles Cases.
At the current moment he is a member of Coetus with
which he has played in various festivals in the whole
world; co-founder, member and musical director of a boogaloo band Electric Gozarela
and also forms part of Funtaises.
ANNA TOBÍAS Bass player and percussionist
Living in an ambient filled with musicians; Anna Tobías
started her musical trajectory studying solfège, harmony
and flamenco guitar in the Modern Music School of
Badalona.
Simultaneously her interest in percussion grew and she
started to investigate it in an autodidactic way but
always guided by great professionals like her brother
Aleix Tobias, for example; at the same time she
participated actively in different groups. Hence, she
travelled to Senegal and Brazil to go in depth into the
art of percussion of these two countries.
Later on her interest in bass guitar grew which she also
investigated in an autodidactic way, but as always, by
the hands of an expert, in that case, a great musician
Guillem Aguilar.
She has formed part of multiple projects alternating those two facets: Anaea, Gameland, N’Gueweul Djarama, Kokoro, Goiaba quintet, Bestiari/o Familiar/e d'Alessio Arena, Útròpic, Maracatú, Suversiones of Rosalia Royo, Aziza Brahim, Silvia Pérez Cruz and numerous shows in the streets. At the current moment forms part of Coetus, De sol a Son, Mater trío, Tara, Korikî, Antonio Sánchez Barranco & the Drumming Society and Quark.
ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ BARRANCO & The Drumming Society
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