La Banda Morisca

labandamoriscaLa Banda Morisca celebrates 10 yearsof existence with the presentation of theirthird album: Gitana Mora. La Banda Moriscahas always been a meeting point betweenflamenco, Mediterranean music, Andalusianrock and North African rhythms. All thiscan be seen in Gitana Mora, a project thatrecovers the memory of Andalusian womenand makes visible all that immaterial legacythat these women left us and made us whatwe are today.From New York to Samarkand, from Paristo the desert of Merzouga, from Havanato Cesky Krumlov. they have been able toconquer and dazzle on many stages duringall these years, becoming one of the groupsin our country with the greatest projectionin the field of world music.Between 2016 and 2019 they have been verysuccessful with their Algarabya. Among themost important international stages are theSXSW in Austin twice, the Flamenco Festivalin New York also twice, the Festival Arabede Montrèal, the Small World music centerin Toronto, New England Conservatoryin Boston, the Old Town of Folk Music inChicago, Miami Dade College and theFlamenco Festival in Miami, the FestivalFlamenco de Chicago (Instituto Cervantes),the Havana World Music Festival (Cuba),theMerzougaInternationalFestival(Morocco), l’Institut du Monde Arabe deParis, the Festival des Musiques Métissesde Angoulême (France), the SpanishPavilion at the Astana Expo 2017 - AECID(Kazakhstan), the Sharq Taronalari Festivalin Samarkand (Uzbekistan), where theywon the prize of the jury of the festival,WOMEX, being the group supported bySounds from Spain in 2017, Katowice; theEuroRadio Folk representing RN3; the FiraMediterrania; the Krems Festival (Austria) orthe Sziget Festival in Budapest.

castJosé Mari CalaJosé CabralVoiceStrings: Moorish guitar, guimbri, oud, banjo and sazBelén LucenaAntonio TorresViolin, rabel and backing vocalsWinds: saxophones, gralla, zurna and tarota / ChorusJerónimo MelgarDavid RuizElectric bassPercussions

videosPromo VideoLa Banda MoriscaPromotional videowhich includes tracks from their third albumGitana MoraGitana MoraJosé Mari Cala voiceJosé Cabral oud and backing vocalsBelén Lucena violinAntonio Torres sax and zurnaJerónimo Melgar electric bassDavid Ruiz percussionsRumba MoriscaJosé Mari Cala voiceJosé Cabral Moorish guitar and backing vocalsBelén Lucena violinAntonio Torres saxo and zurnaJerónimo Melgar electric bassDavid Ruiz percussionsRomance de la AmadaJosé Mari Cala voiceJosé Cabral oud and backing vocalsBelén Lucena violin, rabel and backing vocalsAntonio Torres tarotaJerónimo Melgar electric bassDavid Ruiz percussionsSofía Torres celloMiguel López realisation

discographyGitana Mora is an exaltation offemininity, feminine strength, sapience,fortitude, nurturing and the maintenanceof tradition and wisdom.The role of women in al-Andalus was crucialfor culture and knowledge, and today wecarry this matriarchy in our blood.Lalla is the heiress of the vestals of the oracles, of the magicians of the East and the priestesses ofthe white goddess, but she is also the one who treasures mysticism in Koranic study, can protectfrom the evil eye, and holds the strength of the eye over the hand (hand of Fatima).As soon as all this is forbidden, this wisdom is exclusively for love affairs, divination and healing,Buenaventura and other arts. (2020)Algarabya es is salt, the east wind, thelight of the south and the rhythm and flavour ofAndalusia.Cantiñas,tangos,bamberas,peteneras or serranas. A repertoire that sailsfrom one shore of the Mediterranean to theother, diving into the literary and musicaltraditions of both shores. (2016)La Banda Morisca Andalusian, Maghrebiand Middle Eastern music that accumulatesinfluences ranging from the rudiments offlamenco to the moaxajas of Andalusian origin.The repertoire of the album covers flamencopalos such as farrucas, rumbas, marianas,zambras, as well as romances. (2013)

pressLa Banda MoriscaGitana MoraFernando Martínez for diariofolk.comLa Banda Morisca:Gitana MoraCiro de Rosa for blogfoolk.comNominated for the German Record CriticsAwards for their new albumLa Banda Morisca:Gitana Mora ReviewNovember, 2020September, 2020R.D. for diariodejerez.esJune, 2020David Cox for rootsworld.com2020La Banda Morisca releases its thirdalbum in Hungarylavozdelsur.esLa Banda Morisca, from New York toHavana in less than 15 dayslavozdelsur.esLa Banda Morisca goeson tour of ‘deep’ AsiaLa Banda Morisca: ancient andcontemporary crossbreedingAugust, 2019May, 2018Francisco Romero for lavozdelsur.esAugust, 2017Yves Bernard for ledevoir.comNovember, 2016

The Andalusian spell permeates “Algarabya”, thenew album by La Banda Morisca«The Andalusian charm of La bandaMorisca, which includes former Radio Tarifaand La Jambre, surrounds their new album,“Algarabya”, recorded in two weekends andlive to transmit the “organic and energeticsound” that characterises them and in whichthe band’s style is “consolidated”.José Cabral, guitarist, banjo and vocals inthe band, explains to Efe that this “spell” issomething that Andalusians carry inside them,“often without being aware of it”, and that itindirectly permeates all the creations of LaBanda Morisca.The guitarist compares “Algarabya”, an album of“consolidation that marks a clear and definitiveline of work”, with his previous project, whichwas a “declaration of intentions” but whichseemed more like a “salad of musicians andsongs” than an album “of his own”.This new album was started a year ago butwas scrapped in the middle because the bandmembers were not happy with the resultbecause, according to Cabral, it sounded “toomuch” like a studio.“We decided to throw it all away because itwas too artificial and didn’t reflect our sound.So we all spent a couple of weekends inthe studio together to record as if we werelive. That’s how we got an album that doesrepresent us,” he explains.This need for a “direct” sound with “a lot ofenergy” was brought about by the departureof the percussionist who accompanied themin the first project in 2013 and the incorporationinto the group of Andrés Tomás Rodríguez,who is a drummer with “a lot of strength”.JoseMari Cala, vocals, JuanMi Cabral “Coyote”,electric bass, Antonio Torres, soprano and altosaxophones, complete the band members.Cabral explains that the theme of the newsongs is “universal” and “very Andalusian”,and that the songs about love and heartbreakshare the limelight with lyrics about Andalusiaand “its virtue”.“There is also a traditional touch and influenceof the profane love around which the songs wewere inspired by revolved, in which it is difficultto distinguish whether we are talking aboutlove for the lover or love for God”.“Algarabya” draws from the deepest and mostrural flamenco, from the corpus of medievalAndalusian music and from the wholeMediterranean, including the Maghreb andSyria, that is, “everything that Andalusianmusic means with all its roots”.La Banda Morisca, who are currently on tourin the United States, will present “Algarabya” atthe Sala Galileo in Madrid on 14 April. »EFE for La VanguardiaMadrid. March 20th, 2016

The Moorish Bandat the Institut du MondeArabe in Paris«Between the 13th and 15th centuries, theMoorish Band was the frontier separating theArab-Andalusian Nasrid kingdom of Granada fromthe Christian kingdoms of Aragon and Castile.In this no-man’s land, traders, nomads andChristian and Muslim fugitives, as well as the firstgypsies who arrived on the peninsula, probablycrossed and cohabited.All this amalgam of influences crystallised inthe forms and sensibility of what would later beknown as Cante Jondo.La Banda Morisca is a project born out ofexperimentation, innovation and research intoAndalusian traditions. The recovery of the literaryand musical heritage of ancient al-Andalus andthe Mediterranean strip has been and continuesto be a key element in the consolidation of thisproject.Likewise, the training and trajectory of itsmembers has been a determining factor inachieving the symbiosis between individual andcollective experience. Their desire to continueinnovating and their creativity make up aunique artistic identity in the field of folk and rootsmusic. »Jordi Batallé for RFI FranceParis. March 27th 2017

Gerardo Núñez and La Banda Morisca, among thebest musicians in the world for a magazine in the USA«The works ‘Logos’ and ‘Algarabya’ by the musicians from Jerez have made it into the World MusicCentral’s ranking of world music.The album Logos, by guitarist Gerardo Núñez and the work Algarabya, by the group with roots in Jerez,La Banda Morisca, are on the list of the best world music albums of 2016 for the magazine World MusicCentral. The tocaor is at the top of the ranking for his work with Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius andpercussionist Ángel Sánchez Cepillo.The award for best album is given according to the evaluations of specialised critics from all overthe world. In the list, Núñez beats the works of the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca and the Indianpercussionist Bickram Ghosh. The guitarist from Jerez adds this recognition to others he has won, suchas the National Prize for the Cátedra de Flamencología, some Latin Grammy nominations and the NikolaRubinstein Medal awarded by the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.The album Algarabya, released by La Banda Morisca in 2016, is also among the outstanding works of theyear for the prestigious American magazine, which awards the last place to an album that the members ofthe group have presented in the city and taken to the other side of the pond.»Francisco Romero for lavozdelsur.esJanuary. 2017

technical riderStage PlotChannels1. PERCUSSIONLines 1- 8See Percussion Graph (below)2. BASSLine 9XLR Line3. VOICELine 10Neumann 105 or SM584. GUITAR, OUD AND BACK-VOCALSLines 11 - 12SM58 / XLR5. VIOLINLines 13 - 14DI / DPA 40996. SAXOPHONES AND OBOESLines 15 - 16Beta 98 Wireless / SM577. CHORUSLine 17SM58

Percussion1. BASS DRUM - Sennheiser E9022. CYMBALS OVERHEAD - AKG C2143. FLOOR TOM - Sennheiser E6044. DAF L - Rode NT5 / Neumann KM1845. DAF R - Rode NT5 / Neumann KM1846. TAR, DARBUKA (posición 1) / BENDIR OVERHEAD - Sennheiser E9027. SNARE - Sennheiser E9048. DARBUKA (posición 2) / ADUFE / RIQQ - Shure BETA 98 2 short mic stands for Mic1 (Bass drum) and Mic8 (Darbuka position 2).5 boom arm mic stands for Mics 2, 4, 5 and 6 and sound effects.Backline Stage: 7 x 5 m. Minimum. 6 monitor sends (sidefills if possible) Bass drum 18”, Tom 12”, Floor tom 14”, Snare 14”, Cymbals set (2 Crash de 16”), 3 snare stands (oneof them bigger); 2 snare stand, Bass drum pedal, darbuka with stand, tom stand, throne and carpet. 3 guitar stands, 1 bass stand, 2 sax stands (soprano and alto), 2 oboe stands and 1 violin stand. 1 Acoustic Amp (AER, Fishman or Boss type for guitar. 1 Bass Amp (Markbass, Ampeg or EBS type). 7 220v power points: 2 for bassist (2), 4 for guitarist (4), 1 for violinist (5) and 2 for saxophonist (6). CAMERINE: : Medium towels, bottles of water on stage and backstage. Some light meal.

management & bookingJosé Cabral00 34 620 86 02 omwww.labandamorisca.comAna SolinísGraphic design / Photos

Flamenco Festival in Miami, the Festival Flamenco de Chicago (Instituto Cervantes), the Havana World Music Festival (Cuba), the Merzouga International Festival (Morocco), l’Institut du Monde Arabe de Paris, the Festival des Musiques Métisses de Angoulême (France), the Spanish Pavilion at