When I was a 3 years old child, I would daydreaming with classical music creating atmospheres, but I would never get a proper end cos it was too difficult for me
Lovely days of “ignorance” when I didn't know I was in a dangerous place called Earth, a place I really love, crammed with people that destroy each other. Now they are lovely days of “knowledge”, so I can struggle against my own ignorance for a better world.I've got my first guitar when I was 10 and started playing Progressive Rock, style I still like very much. I wanted to buy a drum but my father was against it. He thought I would just leave it off after a few weeks or so, he was wrong!
With some friends that conformed the Prisma Rock Group we created being about 10 years old, no chance, we had to build up our own instruments! We were passionate, fervent kids! It was probably one of the best moments of my life.
We did a drum, two guitars, a guitarbass and a piano! Fortunately my father was a carpenter and so I had access to the carpentry and its tools. But hey, do not believe they were successful instruments, no, they where rather hilarious, o yea, so comical!
The guitars were made of wood sheets, can you imagine that? So they were very thin and had a long stick to the middle to handle the tension of the strings. The divisions were made with a “black pen” as well as the controls. Those guitars were fretless electric guitars. A friend of us adapted a single pickup to each and made a direct connection to our radio, our only amplifier! I cannot say they would sound as guitars… but they sounded and that was amazing enough for us!The drum was made of empty cans, smashed peaces of metal as cymbals and a few real toms we did in the carpentry that were very successful to the point we included them later and are somewhere still in use by a drummer.
My bass was very dangerous because the body was attached to the neck by a piece of sharp metal, I once cut a bit my hand… We were about 11 years old then and desperately wanted to have the instruments done!
Get ready to explode laughing with our piano: it was made with pieces of aluminium tubes and hammered through peaces of wood traversed with nails resting on a peace of wood. It was kind of ancient Chinese instrument or something like that, something ethnic.
The day we put them together and started jamming, I thought: “what a hell are we doing with those strange affecting sounding things in our hands”. P: But we had so much excitement, oh God, we had so much fun!
I bought my first guitarbass at 14 years of age and started studding very hard. Went to the conservatory and did Double bass, Theory & Sol-fa, Composition and some Piano. Then formed a classical quartet called J.S. Bach did some soloist concerts as Double bass player and composer followed by a great pianist. Then I got into deep classical like Stravinsky, composer I love intensely, formed several groups of Jazz Fusion background and others with lots of South American folk music styles. Did some classical compositions for sinfonic orchestra too.
Then I went to Europe and went deeper into doing Jazz Fusion and Classical composition and playing even got into a Free Jazz group, interesting for a while but no more than a few months for me. Guitarbass has become my main instrument since, my second is guitar and my third is keyboard. Now I do lots of Jazz Fusion and I'm trying to get into something more commercial, just cos I need to eat. I have almost no money at all. I have chosen to do the music I like so far, and had paid high for it. Now, I need to get a hamburger man. I will soon put some of it in the forum, to see what you think.
I have deeply emulated the Stanley Clarke way of playing. Alphonso Johnson, Carol Caye, Patitucci, Ron Carter, Charles Mingus, and lots and lots of others have done deep impact into my way of playing. But… my MASTER, if I can say so, is JACO PASTORIUS, the most incredible bassist player ever, and a marvellous composer and musician, too.
Groups: The J.S. Back Cuartet, Bretania, Tierra del Fuego, Vertiente, Wins Dei, Igor, Garage, Raul Funes Sexteto, El Sexteto Tango, Dinno Zalusi, and some Jazz and Folk groups.
My harmony interest no doubt is all about Jazz, melodies are probably very influence by classical and folkloric ideas I think, my rhythm sections are quite wide cos I’ve done a lot of research in percussion and feel it deeply, don't forget I wanted to be a drum player at first.
Music: Pat Metheny, not only a great guitarist but also a fantastic composer too. Pat Thomi. Of course the Baker brothers… whow!!! The Yellowjackets, the Mahavishnu Orchestra utterly out of this world! Rachel Z , Christian McBride, Gamalon, Tommy Smith. Some techno but exclusively from Japan, I don't know way but I don't like others as much as the Japonese. Many classical composers like Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Bruckner, Chopin, Ginastera, Khachaturian which is breathtaking, Mahler, Stravinsky which is one of my preferred ones, Rachmaninoff, Shostacovich, Astor Piatzola something you should definitely discover before dying, Dinno Zalusi, and many, many others. I just realised this is too large, I like too many things. Well, I think this is enough to say.
