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The band Ojos de Brujo will play next Friday May 6 at 21:00 pm at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona, to celebrate ten years on stages worldwide. On this occasion the band will be accompanied by more than 20 artists that will reinterpret all their greatest hits and the huge number of songs produced over the years.
Along with celebrating the career of Ojos de Brujo, the concert aims to highlight the group being finalist at the Best Fusion Album in the 2011 Music Awards with her album Corriente Vital-10años. The awards will be on May 18 at the Arteria Coliseum in Madrid.
Ojos de Brujo was born in Barcelona in 1996. In those years, Barcelona was experiencing music jam sessions and Ramon Jimenez, who was playing flamenco guitar, met Juanlu, bassist, and they began to give shape to an interesting mixture of sounds with the flavor and passion of flamenco. From a clear notion of what they wanted and what they did not as a musical concept his first album was born, Vengue, edited in Belgium, Germany, Italy and France.
Since then they developed a work of collaboration with various musicians, though the group was stabilized by Ramón Jiménez, Juanlu, Marina, Xavi Turull, Panko, Sergio Ramos and Maxwell Wright.
In 2002, with the second album, Bari, the group launched an ambitious company creating the seal La Fábrica de Colores to produce their own projects, the most experimental one and focused on social and environmental issues. This second album is going to mean the internationalization of the group with promotional tours around the world.
In 2006 their third album released, Techarí. Martyrdom, Pepe Habichuela and Nitin Sawhney among others collaborated on this album. In this album there were two versions, a deluxe one illustrated by graffiti artists and cartoonists from around the world and a normal one.
Their first live album was recorded from the concert in Barcelona in 2006 and was called Techarí Live. It features their songs with Faada Fredy with a version of Bob Marley’s Get up, stand up. From this work a documentary about the band was published.
Although Ojos de Brujo was born as a musical group focussed on fusion of flamenco and incorporating experimental sounds, today the art work and commitment of the components of the group led them to develop interesting artistic work with the platform of La Fabrica de Colores, editing a fanzine and the comics Rumba contra el mundo.
The popularity of the band has come to the cinema with the collaboration on the soundtrack of Amnesia, by the Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore; also on Volverás, by the Spanish director Antonio Chavarrías and on the documentary as a tribute to rumba Gato Pérez by Ventura Pons.
For further info: http://www.sala-apolo.com/agenda.asp?whh=5081
Nancy Guzman
If you have Barcelona accommodation you cannot miss the appointment with this interesting band that has innovated in the artistic, musical and organizational field, that has crossed the five continents giving their best creations and expects to deliver the best of their 10 years on the Sala Apolo.
