Inti Illimani Histórico, la Historia de Inti Illimani

Inti-Illimani, sol del Illimani, nevado imponente que se yergue en las alturas andinas de La Paz, Bolivia. Es el nombre con que el grupo fue bautizado en agosto de 1967 por el guitarrista de ascendencia boliviana Eulogio Dávalos, dada la fuerte pasión por la música del altiplano andino que ya en sus inicios muestra el grupo. Después de cuarenta años transcurridos desde entonces, su nombre se identifica con la historia musical del continente latinoamericano, con sus instrumentos más característicos, con la historia de sus pueblos y los del mundo, sus luchas, con su geografía y sus sabores, significa amistad y solidaridad. Inti Illimani es música. Más aún, es cultura.

Es una historia traspasada e influenciada por los tiempos y vientos sociales. Inti-illimani surge fiel a los nuevos aires que brotan en muchos lugares del mundo durante la década de los 60 que, en el caso chileno, a partir de Violeta Parra, cambia la manera de entender y cultivar la canción y en general, la música latinoamericana.

Nacido en mayo de 1967 en el seno de la Universidad Técnica del Estado, Inti illimani se constituyó rápidamente en uno de los grupos emblemáticos del notable movimiento musical chileno conocido como "la nueva canción chilena”. Su trabajo instrumental multifacético, habla también de una búsqueda que entrecruza disciplinas muchas veces separadas; lo popular y lo clásico se vuelve un todo en sus creaciones que parecieran mostrarnos el folclore de un país imaginario, pero también real.

A litle  bit of folk, country and sertanejo.

Eduardo & his Brazilian Aeroplane

"Brazilian Aeroplane" is a band with a multi-national history and fame. Piloted by Eduardo Domingues de Jesus in São Paulo, Brazil, many years ago it was test-driven in Milan, where Eduardo supplemented his Fine Arts studies by singing classic bossa nova and jazz grooves. When love for technology brought Eduardo to Finland, he kept the playing going anyway, singing and reshaping his projects, crew and ideas. The band assumed a special form when the Aeroplane hired Anthony Johnson as co-pilot, taking to the air many times: working with different crews of great musicians. Anthony ("Toninho") brought his talents as an arranger, a violinist and as a guitar player to the band, merging his British background with a deep love of Brazilian rhythms in order to produce fresh-sounding arrangements of works by artists as diverse as J. Karjalainen, Anna Hanski, Heikki Sarmanto and Bo Kasper. The current band complements Eduardo and Toninho with a core of top-class players, and performances by (among others) Anders Östling on electric guitar, Fabio Oliveira on its 6 and 7 string classical guitar, and Olga Shishkina on 39-string kantele and gusli. Jussi Mäkelä and Juha Tanninen are responsible for the percussion and drums while Pekka Kolehmainen underpins everything with his solid bass lines. While having really a lot of fun, Eduardo leads a meticulous, patient, industrious and continuous work of music research internationalizing the music of popular artists of different countries and idioms into its Brazilian mother language and music styles. His Brazilian Aeroplane test drove its first flights on cloudy and snowy clouds having Finland as its environment while preparing the campaigns in other countries as Sweden, Brazil and hopefully the international arenas. Remarkable results were seen at once at the first weeks of its SIMETRIA album launch: first place at top ten iTunes Jazz list for Finland and also first place at top 550 CDBaby list for Brazilian Pop. The sky looks clear with no clouds and lots of winds of love, fasten your seat belts!

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