Lluc Casares, Joan Vidal, Néstor Giménez and Lluís Vidal, four of our most important arrangers and composers, took on the challenges currently facing the performing arts with this new and ambitious project BARCELONA ART ORCHESTRA whose first album is entitled Ragtime Stories.
Ragtime is the common denominator that ties together the eight pieces that make up this album. This timeless music is revisited with arrangements that range from the purely traditional to the avant garde. They serve as a showcase for the talent and versatility of the four composers/arrangers that lead this project.
BARCELONA ART ORCHESTRA is a stable formation made up of a large number of exceptional musicians featuring jazz instrumentation as well as classical and contemporary.
BAO embodies the will to explore different musical genres from a jazz perspective, in search of new relationships with other artistic disciplines such as theatre, danse, or poetry.
Ragtime Stories is possible thanks to the complicity of this group of musicians and composers who have consolidated this project with the release of this first album which will doubtlessly see BARCELONA ART ORCHESTRA become an important reference point for the current scene.
1. R.A.G.T.I.M.E 16:47
2. Ambidextrous 08:23
3. Rag and Morty 05:43
4. Ragside Down 05:15
5. Rag to the Future 05:30
6. Mimosa Stomp 05:41
7. El viatge de Jimmy Rag 14:48
8. The Entertainer 05:21
Anna Pujol - Flute and Piccolo
Gabriel Amargant - Tenor, Alto and Soprnao Sax
Lluc Casares - Clarinet and Tenor Sax
Jordi Santanach - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Baritone Sax
Joan Mar Sauqué - Trumpet
Òscar Latorre - Trumpet
Álvaro Ocón - Trumpet
Pau Valls - French Horn
Alba Pujals - Trombone and Bass Trombone
Apel.les Carod - Violin
Marta Roma - Cello
Adrià Plana - Guitar
Pilar Subirà - Vibraphone, Marimba, Glockenspiel, and other percussions
Guiseppe Campisi - Dounle Bass
Néstor Giménez - Piano and Conducting
Llís Vidal - Piano and Conducting
Joan Vidal - Drums
Recorded Between 18 and 26 November at Medusa Studios. Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Ferran Conangla.
Cover Mauricio Lencina. Design Pepon Meneses.
Executive Producer Armonico Wines and UnderPool.
Published Underpool
