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Guillermo Celano Guillermo Celano Guitarist and composer Guillermo Celano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1977. After finishing his musical education at the E.M.P.A. (in Bs.As.) he traveled to Amsterdam where he got his Master degree in music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. "This new CD says very good things about this young musician as a composer and as a improviser" Between 2003 and 2007 he has been performing weekly with his personal project "Celano-Baggiani Group and guests". During this period he had the chance to perform with different names: Michael Moore, Jasper Bloom,Thomas Winther Andersen, Arnold Dooyeweerd, Flin van Hemmen, Natalio Sued, Ernst Glerum, Sven Schuster, Jesse van Ruller, Michael Vatcher, Andrew Bergmann, Robin Verheyen, Tyler Wood, Lars Dietrich, Joris Rulof and some more. In December 2005 the Celano-Baggiani Group released their first CD, "Figuras" (BAU records). "G. Celano and M. Baggiani... have done a CD where apparently simple ideas create the space for sophisticated developments, colored by the reminiscence of tango and folk rhythms" "A statement with a modern structure…A creative edification of atmospheres" "G. Celano as a soloist: Reflexive, he likes to take armonic winding ways. A kind of moderated futurist who likes to take melodies to open them. He uses the rests in a very intelligent way and he likes to develop a sort of orchestral arrangements". In march 2006 he recorded a new CD with the Celano-Baggiani Group "Simple Songs", with Michael Moore (www.ramboyrecordings.com) on sax and clarinet and Sven Schuster on bass; the CD was released in july 2007 by MDR Records. "Simple Songs is a very mature CD".... "A strong nostalgic atmosphere rich in sounds and colours"...."the guitar plays open and long chords opening different spaces"..."With a little bit of distorsion during the solos Celano can cut through and been lirical at the same time; he can fly out of the tonality and come back with the right timing" "A few beautiful original tunes and a couple of well known tunes. G. Celano's and Michael Moore's ideas have made a refreshing and pleasing oasis of this album" In September 2008 thier third CD came out Celano-Baggiani Group "Nothing changes" (Trytone), Featuring Michael Moore on alt sax and clarinet (www.ramboyrecordings.com) and Gorka Benitez on Tenor sax and flute (www.gorkabenitez.com). The CD Presentation took place at the Bimhuis. " The quartet of Amsterdam-based Argentinians Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani played a beautiful set... the tune No Moe from Sonny Rollins was vividly deconstructed and a wonderful poetic version of the old (film) hit Ojos Verdes from 1929 with very tasteful string and pedal playing of Celano." "Nothing changes is their third album. The musical contribution of the different members is mixed in a refined and harmonic way.... far away in the distance you can hear tango, the bass is playing a passionate line, then a caribic rhythm comes up, it goes slowly to a heavy rock and again a beautiful ballad"....."The atmosphere on the CD is relaxed but the melancolie and the blues are not too far." ¨Like in a good poetry book, the first track on this CD summarized the upcoming beauty... *****(5/5 stars) "The Celano Baggiani Group left us astonished. This quartet built around a guitarist and a drummer from Argentina begins from simple melodic ideas. From there it grows slowly towards a whole exciting and complex music, which at the same time remains still melodic". Kinda Muzik. Sven Schlijper - Tilburg 24 September. In 2003 he took part on another project,"Intuit Quintet", together with Natalio Sued (ts); David Fettmann (as); Arnold Dooyeweerd (db) and Flin van Hemmen (dr). In 2004 the CD recorded with Intuit Quintet was released "Istmo"(BAU records) 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 he performed with Intuit Quintet throughout Europe. In 2005 he started playing with "Big Grin Trio" with Rodrigo Reijers and Flin van Hemmen; In 2007 they recorded their first CD together which came out in december 2008 by Trytone. ¨Guillermo Celano is an interesting new guitarist in the dutch scene. He comes from Argentina and mixes melodies from his homeland with improvised noise and crosswise accents....¨ In april 2008 the group "Thelonius 4" releases his first CD playing the music of Th. Monk. A. Metzler on bass, I. Spaargaren on sax, J. Bakker on drums and G. Celano on guitar. During the last years he has been colaborating in different projects, among which: "Jargon ensemble" playing the music of Maurice Horsthuis, Paul van der Feen, Flin van hemmen quintet, Andreas Metzler's new solutions quartet, Narcissus quartet with Robin Verheyen and Clemens van der Feen, Thelonius 4, Intuit Quintet, Babak maddah group, Gizmo, Julia Oschewsky and band. Discography "Istmo"(BAU records) 2003 Intuit quintet "Figuras" (BAU records) 2005 Celano Baggiani group "Simple Songs" (MDR Records) 2007 Celano Baggiani group "Thelonius 4" (Jazz Amsterdam) 2008 "Nothing changes" (Trytone) 2008 Celano Baggiani group "Big Grin" (Trytone) 2008 Contact: Check:
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