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Alan Stivell is one of the pioneering musicians blend traditional Breton music with rock.
Tagged as Celtic music performer, is also one of the first composers to vindicate through his texts Celtic cause, telling all kinds of injustice, social and ecological problems.
HI Muvrini, meanwhile, is the Corsican group best known voices in the world.
The components with their personal style marked defend, and for twenty years, the music traditions of the island of Corsica.
Through their wonderful voices, achieve a perfect harmony between the rich polyphony of the tradition of Corsica and the actual sounds.
Alan Stivell and voices I Muvrini will meet at the Auditorio Parque Torres de Cartagena on Thursday July 17 from 23: 00 pm.
The ticket prices for the two concerts 18 Euros.
Alan Stivell child to his father offered him a harp to learn to play it, and so became the first musician to blow the Breton harp after four centuries.
His childhood was spent listening to classical music and jazz, but when the rock landed in Europe, Stivell took the initiative to merge creating the Celtic rock.
He was then introduced into their creations world music, pop, rap and techno sound.
The technology has been an important resource for the Breton musician career to profit from all that came on the market.
Created and designed the electric Celtic harp.
He has published over twenty albums, ranging topics, exploring styles and sharing experiences with musicians of all levels.
His stage name, Stivell, Breton come from the form of his surname kozh stivelloù (ancient sources).
A good metaphor that accurately reflects the position of an artist who has applied to recover traditional instruments like the bagpipe, the bombard and especially (with the help of his father, Jord Cochevelou), the Celtic harp Geltiek Telenn whose sound had been forgotten since the Middle Ages, when the Duchy of Brittany lost its independence from France.
Stivell says its sound was immediately plunged into what he called celtitud: a powerful attraction to the unfamiliar culture, deeply open a civilization attractive, imaginative and original discovery began learning their language and, soon, its history, mythology and legends.
Stivell used Gaelic with English or French to play jigs and reels of Breton communities and add to this repertoire from its traditional instrumentation from rock and jazz later, being a precursor to styles like rock or Celtic new age.
Bleimor After forming a set or bagad traditional instruments, and receive several awards of Breton, in 1959 he recorded his first single, Musique Gaélique and already become the first piper or penn-Sonera, published his first album in 1963: the instrumental Telenn geltiek - Harpe Celtique.
His performances are becoming more common and, in 1968 and as Alan Stivell, acting at the Sorbonne in the heart of the French May.
Reflets published in 1970, which begins to add other traditional instruments like the banjo.
But his true cornerstone appear in 1972: Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (Renaissance of the Celtic harp).
The presentation of the album at the legendary Olympia in Paris, accompanied by guitarist Dan Ar Braz, it becomes an international star as well pop in the U.S. market.
Chemins de terre, released a year later, and also electric guitar, add a battery, was the album of the year in the British magazine Melody Maker.
Alan Stivell with intelligence has drawn more than four decades of music industry outside their swings, with tours around the world, performing and recording in football stadiums and live albums recorded in Paris, Dublin and Madrid, as the album's International Tour: Tro Ar Bed, recorded live on tour in 1979, which included most of his performance at the Palace Theatre Alcalá.
Albums like Symphonie Celtique - Tir na nog (1979), conceived as a universal symphony, which makes Stivell translating their texts and sung in languages such as Tibetan or Sanskrit and introducing electronic elements, loops and samplers as well as first prototype of the electric harp.
Or Legend (1983) soundtrack of the movie If Jávais 1000 ans, Monique Enckell, inspired by the Irish mythological poem Imran Brain (Le voyage de Brain).
Both become cult albums.
In 1994, Stivell, who sometimes said to be pro-autonomy of Brittany within the French Republic, on the way to Scotland or Wales in the UK, is decorated with the collar of the Order of the Ermine in Vannes, by outreach work of the Breton culture.
A year earlier he had called for a large number of friends in the recording of Alan Stivell album again as Davy Spillane, Kate Bush, Doudou N'diaye Rose or Dan Ar Braz.
He was also engaged with the project Jacques Bernard des Celtes Héritage (The Legacy of the Celts), with whom he performed an important series of concerts with musicians from Britain, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Stivell's career has always been committed understanding among human beings, the richness of cultural diversity, peace and unity.
In 1998 she published 1 Douar (land), disco involving Youssou N'Dour, Cheb Khaled, John Cale and Paddy Moloney, and who collaborated in the production Simon Emmerson and Martin Russell of Afro Celt Sound System.
I Muvrini
Many may have heard her version of Fields of Gold by Sting, recorded with the author as Terre d'Oru.
Or his peculiar reinterpretation in Italian and English Springsteen Streets of Philadelphia, including its recent I Muvrini et Les 500 Choristes, which also recovered Amsterdam Jacques Brel or You want to return, Gipsy Kings, which are singing Sarah Brightman in Castilian.
But Corsicans I Muvrini, the band that the brothers Jean François and Alain Bernardini formed in the eighties, can boast of tradition.
Ghjuliu Bernardini, his father was a renowned singer and poet.
With his first single he recorded in collaboration with the band sings or Populu Corsu, and he dedicated his debut album, I Muvrini ringrazianu you in a career that began in the late seventies.
Since then, we have seventeen albums, plus four direct and one compilation.
Le Dieu EROS is one of the last records in a career studded with gold records, Victoires de la Musique, concerts and many successes, in some cases include such notable collaborations as they have done with Luis Llach, Cheb Mami , MC Solaar, Maxime Le Forestier, Luz Casal, Nana Mouskouri, Ute Lemper and Haris Alexious.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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