Guitar - Karlie May
Double Bass - Thomas Hirt
Drums - Freddy Schmid

Recorded Zurich 2005

Beautiful Love (Trio)

Soul Eyes (Trio)

Guitar played by Carlitos Mayo. 
Composer: Vicente Amigo. 
First recording test with Zoom H4n and the background noise of monsoon rain and crickets in Pokhara. Played as good as possible :-) Still working on the details. I will replace this recording when better takes are available.
Practicing start: 7/3/2015
Rec date: 7/24/2015

Morente (Granaina)

Guitar played by Carlitos Mayo. 
Composer: Vicente Amigo. 
Audio: Thomas Porrmann
First recording test with Zoom H4n and the background noise of monsoon rain and crickets in Pokhara. Played as good as possible :-) Still working on the details. I will replace this recording when better takes are available.
Rec date: 7/27/2015
Version 2

Callejon De La Luna (Taranta)

Guitar - Carlitos Mayo
Bass - Peter Livers

Girl Talk (Duo)

Guitar - Carlitos Mayo
Tabla - Sklapnil Masje
Composition - Carlitos Mayo
Recorded 20.12.2011

Intabla (Duo)

Guitar - Carlitos Mayo
Bass - Peter Livers
Composition - Carlitos Mayo

Remember (Duo)

Tablarone (Duo)

Guitar - Carlitos Mayo
Bass - Peter Livers
Composer - Jimmy Van Heusen

Recorded 22.10.2011

Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Duo)

Carlitos Mayo - Guitar & Composition
Recorded in Pokhara / Nepal with a Zoom H4n
4. August 2015



Falsetta de Pokhara (Tango)

Carlitos Mayo - Guitar
Composer - Louis Bonfa
Mr. Thomas - Audio/Mixing
Recorded in Pokhara/Nepal 29.07.2015
Birdsounds recorded in Thailand 2014

Black Orpheus (Bossa)

Carlitos Mayo - Guitar
Composition - Vicente Amigo
Recorded 6.Aug 2015, Pokhara/Nepal

This is a test recording with a Zook H4n and will be replaced when a better version is available.

Tio Arango (Solea)

Carlitos Mayo / Karlie May had classical flamenco guitar lessons from the age of 9 to 13 after playing flute since 7. First concerts with 12 years. Self taught further on until today. With 17 activities in local Rhythm & Blues and Rock 'n Roll Bands (Sun Combo). Started to play Jazz with 20. Had concerts with regional musicians. Begins to teach in the age of 23.
About 2 years travel trough Asia (had concerts in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Penang and other places for financing the travel). Intensive self-study in composition, improvisation and arrangement while living for several months on isolated Asian islands.
On the road living in a caravan as busker in Europe, played mainly jazz but also with with gypsy-groups, in blues and rock bands and other formations.
In Switzerland he visited different jazz workshops (K.T. Geier, etc.) did jobs as freelancer in different formations, concerts with Jimmy Woode, Alberto Canonica, Christoph Grab, Toni Todesco, Léon Duncan, Ralf Ruh, Jürg Grau and many others.
Carlitos Mayo / Karlie May was the initiator of weekly jam sessions (Charlie's Playhouse in the jazz club MOODS) for 4 years in Zurich.
Own work, predominantly in trios and quartets like "Strange Fruits", "Accoustic Trio", "The Hammond Project", "K.May Trio". Was member of "Elmar Kluth's Organic Quartet" etc. Played different festivals as: MOODS Zurich, SKA cultural forum, Cotton Club Festival, Int. Jazz Festival Korinth in Greece, etc. Besides theatre appearances with the jazz & lyric poetry-program of Anny Weiler. Recordings and gigs with many others.

Musical influences: jazz, flamenco, musette, classical guitar music, gybsy music, arabic/persian ethnic music, blues, rock

Carlitos Mayo

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