Federico Ciaccafava

Collaboration between Federico Durand (Argentina) and hofli aka Tsuda Takashi (Japan). They first began to make tracks together to prepare souvenir CDRs for their 2017 Japan tour, and this successful trial lead to releasing this full album. Basically they sent field recording materials to each other, and the other person finishes by adding instruments and processing.

"Deux Moi is the title of my new album, an introspective work that narrates, through 11 original tracks, the various emotions, joys, pains, and life experiences seen from two different perspectives of the same person.

Celebrated Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, “one of the most elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet” (Los Angeles Times) performs Romantic-era concertos and solo pieces by Mexican composers Ricardo Castro and Manuel María Ponce.

Oops, of course the new album by the Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese actually belongs a few pages further up in the “Jazz + Classical” section. But then there is a danger that all those who accuse the somewhat overused combination of piano music and gentle electronics - not entirely wrongly - of wanting little more than atmospheric-meditative splashing will miss it.

Un libro único«La gran dibujante y contadora de historias que es Ilu Ros aborda ahora la vida y obra de Federico García Lorca. Su Federico está lleno de pasión, arte, vida y poesía. Un fino y riguroso trabajo documental que ilustra con su trazo libre, evocador, personalísimo. Una joya.»Elvira Lindo «Propone una cita con García Lorca que es un diálogo generacional, una mirada del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente. La palabra hoy lleva en su interior un mundo ilustrado.»Luis García Montero Federico solo hay uno. No le hacen falta apellidos. Un nombre que reconocen tanto niños como adultos, que suena a duende, a cante jondo y a romance popular, pero también a la vanguardia más rompedora. Un nombre que encarna la alegría y las sombras de España, la época más brillante de nuestra cultura desde la Edad de Oro, pero también la guerra y lavergüenza de un pueblo que nunca podrá perdonarse la muerte del poeta que más lo representaba.

Native of Umbria, Italy, pianist/composer Federico Bonifazi has become a highly acclaimed name both in national and international scene in recent years. For this his third album Bonifazi composed a suite depicting the beauty of his beloved Umbria in the changing colours of autumn performed by Bonifazi's handpicked elite Italian ensemble.

Like the joker, who can turn up in different roles and guises, these musicians take turns in this trio: the extraordinary accordion player Vincent Peirani, who makes switching between Led Zeppelin and Purcell look easy, Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande and drummer Ziv Ravitz from New York, who has become a well-known performer at the BIMHUIS. All three of them have an equal and complimentary role, becoming by turns a soloist, a rhythmist, a colorist, and so on. They incorporate all kinds of music from all over the world.