dan_txa

DAN_TXA: new CD by Tomás San Miguel+Txalaparta World-music Basque Band from Spain.

Tomás San Miguel, composer, pianist and accordionist, meets the txalaparta a percussive instrument, more than 2000 years old, from the Basque Country in Spain, one of the oldest cultures in Europe. Tomás San Miguel, pioneer in the adaptation and musical use of the Basque txalaparta into the context of today´s music, always in the search of the new horizons of sound divorcing himself from any standard classification, prejudgment or market trend. His CD LEZAO was listed in the firsts positions of the European Radio World Music Charts, was a big success and even today continues been a landmark CD. Obtained important recognition in Spain and in the United States where the specialized press (Billboard, Rolling Stone, Spotlight), dedicated headlines like the following to him:

"He is Truly Different, A Magnificent Job, Evocative Memories of Mystery and Charm,
Fascinating and Exuberant Music, Powerful Meditations, An Original and Impressive Fusion"...
"Tomás San Miguel (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1953) is a craft man, with the patient of an archaeologist has search into his own language achieving something unique. Maybe he was after it without knowing how, since he left to study music to E.E:U.U., where he ended joining musicians like Stan Getz, Airto Moreira o Larry Coryell. Or later performing with the German Band Dissidenten. But finally he found his unique voice, but much closer to his homeland: in the hamlet of Lezao near the mountains of his Basque Land."
Carlos Galilea EL PAIS

DAN_TXA is the 3rd part of his txalaparta CD trilogy. His first CD was LEZAO (Nuevos Medios-Narada/Virgin 1994) followed by TEN (Nuevos Medios-Exil1998). Departing from the author´s music roots as well as his influences going from jazz to world music. DAN_TXA is a chant to the universal dance where the accordion melodies and the txalaparta Basque grooves mix down with rhythms from diverse cultural sources achieving innovative mixes : ethno-txalaparta, baiao-txalaparta, samba-txalaparta, fandango-txalaparta, trikitixa-trance-txalaparta, bertso-txalaparta, finding an exceptionally unique aural experience, aesthetically futuristic and innovative as well.

Tomás San Miguel: accordion
Ttukunak: txalaparta
Marlon Klein: percussions, programmings and production

invited artists:
Jorge Pardo: flute
Antonio J.Gómez: guitar