Horacio Guarany | zh

Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo, better known as Horacio Guarany (May 15, 1925 – January 13, 2017), was one of the main Argentine folk singers and also songwriter, guitarist, actor and writer. .

Half English, half Argentine, Ibiza-born "noise-eccentric" HORACIO POLLARD has been active in the field of experimental music since 2002 and has put out a number of releases on various labels, as well as a split 7" with MoHa!. A member of CLIFFORD TORUS and FULLY BLOWN DENTAL REFORM, he also runs his own label Neigh%Music. Armed with a plethora of (mal)functioning and obsolete electronics, he delivers a nauseating yet ecstatic avalanche of disemboweling disco-hits filled with foul slap bass, vaginal harmonicas and soporifically iconoclastic grooves. HOLGER HILLER meets BRAINBOMBS meets The Residents - like the caustic fury of a cosmic...

Horacio Vaggione (born 1943 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an electro-acoustic and musique concrete composer who specialises in micromontage, granular synthesis, and thus microsound and (Landy 1994, p.148) whose pieces often are for performer and computer-generated tape. He studied composition at the National University in Córdoba and the University of Illinois, where he first gained exposure and access to computers. Vaggione lives in Europe and visited every electronic studio there during the 1970s. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, and was part of ALEA and co-founded an electronic studio and the Projects Music and Computer at the Autonomous...

Early in 1997, Hernandez traveled to Orvieto, Italy to perform at the Umbria Jazz Festival and record with the band "Crisoul". Led by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, this all-star lineup combined the energies of Hargrove, Hernandez, Gary Bartz, Frank Lacey, David Sanchez, Changuito, Jon Benitez, Anga Diaz, Russell Malone and Chucho Valdes. Their debut record entitled "Habana" earned "Crisoul" a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Record in the"“Latin Jazz" category. During the same period Hernandez recorded the Michel Camilo's release "Thru My Eyes" with Jon Patitucci and Anthony Jackson. On this record, El Negro's true essence is captured on the track...