Amadeo Roldan | nl

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Born in Badajoz (Spain), in 1980. Roldán started to play drums in some punk-rock bands in his town, Don Benito. At the same time he started to compose his own songs,very influenced by artists like Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Leonard Cohen or Harry Nilsson, and with an idea of making Lo-Fi music, mixing some ideas of folk and noise He was recording his experimental material by a broken cassette-recorded, which was useful to make "overdubs" in the same tape. He used some toy keyboards, acustic guitars and his own voice to make his own "Lo-Fi" soundsistem. At the year 1998, he...

Amadeo Vives (November 18, 1871 – December 1, 1932) was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is also known by the Catalan form of his name, Amadeu Vives. He is best known for Doña Francisquita, which Christopher Webber has praised for its "easy lyricism, fluent orchestration and colourful evocation of 19th Century Madrid—not to mention its memorable vocal and choral writing" characterizes as "without doubt the best known and loved of all his works, one of the few zarzuelas which has 'travelled' abroad" . .