Pancho Álvarez – Sólidos Galicianos

Description

Thirteen musical pieces, with which the artist is immersed in traditional rhythms to find different sounds, counting for are with contributions from Álvaro Iglesias on the double bass and the voice of María Solleiro.

The job title refers the a coins minted at the time of the old Kingdom of Galicia. These coins, as well as many other treasures, second hiding under the castles and the “mámoas”, popular mythology where their owners “os mouros” lived and kept dealings with men.

Pancho Alvarez, musician recognized in the scene Galician, is a multi-instrumentalist that dominates them instruments of rope, in addition to an excellent singer. Their works combines the tradition with his own bagage musical, giving you it all them a sound fresh and full of nuances and offering a spectacular vision of the old traditions, but of a way modern and current.

The porriñes musician became known how violinist with the group “On the Moon” at the beginning of the 1980s. From 1993 would become part of the missing group “Matto Congrio”. In addition to be a regular collaborator of Carlos Núñez, in the year 1998 published his first work in solo, “Florencio, o cego dos Vilares”, where collecting the tradition of them songs of blind doing a sense tribute to the last of them violinists blind. In 2001 would market his second work, “Nas cordas.”