Anel Paz

Anel Paz
Anel Paz
Background information
Birth name	José Manuel Paz
Born	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Genres	Rock, Funk, Jazz, World Music
Occupation(s)	Guitar Player, Singer, Producer, Songwriter, Recording and Mixing engineer
Instruments	Guitar, Voice
Website	http://www.anelpaz.com

Jose Manuel "Anel" Paz is an Argentinian guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and recording and mix engineer.
Has been member of Los Violadores, and Los Politicos.

Currently is the bandleader of El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F).^[1]
Is graduated 'With Honors" at Musicians Institute (Los Angeles, USA), where he was a student of Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Paul Gilbert, Joe Diorio, and others.

Has been awarded with prizes such as: Lápiz de Oro (fifteen times), Lápiz de Platino (five times), a Gold Record, Premios Jerry Goldenberg a la Excelencia en las Comunicaciones (three times), among others awards.

Was appointed international endorser by Ibanez guitars, nomination for the first time granted to an Argentine artist. Anel is shown in 2005 Ibanez's catalogue, alongside maestros such George Benson, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Pat Metheny, Joe Satriani, John Scofield and Steve Vai.^[2]

Producer of:

12 Monos, Banda de Turistas, Deja Vu, Diemen Noord, El General Paz & La Triple Frontera, La Burrita Cumbión, Limon, Los Políticos, Los Violadores, Nerdkids, No Compro Más, Romina Vitale, Sergio Pángaro y Baccarat, Surfistas del Sistema, among others. Has participates in further musical productions, including Enrique Pinti, and Nacha Guevara.

Recording, Mix and/or Mastering Engineer of:

12 Monos, Alejandro Lerner, Banda de Turistas, Cacho Tirao, CMTV Acústicos (Airbag, Árbol, Carajo, Coti Sorokin, El Bordo, Emanero, Estelares, Leo García, Massacre, Pablo López, Sebastian Yatra, Vox Dei, among others), Celeste Carballo, Charly García, Diemen Noord, El General Paz & La Triple Frontera, Jairo, Joaquín Sabina, La Burrita Cumbión, La Tabaré, Liliana Herrero, Limon, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Pericos, Los Políticos, Ratones Paranoicos, Los Tipitos, Los Violadores, Luciano Pereyra, Memphis La Blusera, Nerdkids, No Compro Más, Romina Vitale, Sandro, Sergio Pángaro y Baccarat, Surfistas del Sistema, Turf, Villanos, among other artists. Several of these albums were certified with Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum sales.
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Beginnings

Anel Paz was born in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of José Manuel Paz and Isabel Norma Bernardez, is the eldest of four brothers.

Since childhood, music and musical instruments fascinated him. His parents supported his vocation and when he was six years old was sent to study music and flute to Collegium Musicum.

His family moved to Flores and at this time of games in the neighborhood, encouraged by their parents, he listened classical music, jazz, tango, folk, rock, Brazilian music, artists as Franz Liszt, Elvis Presley, José Larralde, Paco de Lucia, Eduardo Falu, Frank Sinatra.

At 13 years old, living in Caballito, he is attracted by the sound of the electric guitar. He discovered artists who influenced him deeply: Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Rush, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Jeff Beck, Queen, and African-American blues. When he was 15 he received as a Christmas gift his first electric guitar, and from that moment he founded several garage bands, and plays with them in shows, school and neighborhood festivals.Some of these garage bands were: Los Espasmódicos, Dr. Rock, Océano, Cognac.

He began his music studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and took harmony, composition, classical guitar, electric guitar with several teachers, including Juan Carlos Cirigliano, María Isabel Siewers, and Claudio Camisassa. In these years classical music, jazz, fusion and hard rock attracted him: Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Albéniz, Leo Brouwer, Randy Rhoads, Serú Giran, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mozart, George Benson, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, John Coltrane, Yes, Charlie Parker, Prince, John Scofield, Miles Davis were his influences.

Years later, the Conservatory rewards him, choosing Anel to play in a Master Class offered by the great Eduardo Falu.

After this event he gets support from his parents to study at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, USA. At the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), Musician Institute, he studied with Norman Brown, Joe Diorio, Frank Gambale, Paul Gilbert, Scott Henderson, Carl Shroeder, Peter Sprague, among others. He attended seminars with Albert Lee, Al Di Meola, Carl Verheyen, Jennifer Batten, Joe Pass, Robben Ford, Tommy Tedesco, Steve Trovato, and others.

In 1988 he graduated "With Honors" at the Musicians Institute.

Back to Argentina

Back in Argentina in 1989 he created, with Ricardo Saul, his own music production company: "Raya Diseño de Música y Sonido”. In these years he received several national and international awards, including four Lápiz de Oro.

He contributes to create the I.T.M.C. (Instituto Tecnológico de Música Contemporánea, certified in Argentina by Musicians Institute), founded by his friend and classmate of GIT, Diego Temprano, Anel was instructor and Director of Studies of the Institute.

In the following years he participated in albums as a guitarist, producer and arranger, including Enrique Pinti, and Nacha Guevara among other artists.

Los Violadores

In 1995 he was summoned by Robert "Polaco" Zelazek to become part of Los Violadores, punk band pioneer of the genre in Latin America, in replace of guitar player Gustavo "Stuka" Fossa.

With Los Violadores, he recorded and co-produced the album "Otra Patada en los Huevos", and he formed part of the historic return's shows of the band at Cemento, in December 1995.

In the following years they performed shows, music videos and tours.

In 1997 he recorded a guitar solo version of Hymn to San Martín for electric guitar and orchestra, which was widely broadcast by Mario Pergolini in Radio Rock & Pop.

SuperGaucho

In 1998 he created, with Fernando Buriasco, SuperGaucho Records, his own indie label company and recording studios, where several artists recorded albums, including Cacho Tirao.

He produced, composes and records "Conversacional", Romina Vitale’s first album, and participated in videos and shows as guitar player and music director..

He is recording engineer in the Los Fabulosos Cadillacs's albums "Hola" and "Chau".

Los Políticos

In 1999 he formed his own band, Los Políticos, he recorded an eponymous album and participated in videos and shows of the band.^[4]

Ibanez Guitars

He was appointed international endorser by Ibanez guitars, nomination for the first time granted to an Argentine guitarist. Anel appears at 2005 Ibanez's catalogue alongside artists such as George Benson, Joe Satriani, John Scofield, Marty Friedman, Pat Metheny, Paul Gilbert, and Steve Vai.

In those years he conducted seminars and workshops about improvisation and production, including the Ibanez Guitar Explosion 2003 with Marty Friedman.^[5]

Supercharango

In 2003, with Fernando Buriasco, Gianni Dusio and Nicolas Diaz, he created Supercharango,^[6] music production company, where he produced and recorded albums for various artists including: 12 Monos, "Generacion Pulgar" of Nerdkids, and "Autoayuda" of Sergio Pángaro y Baccarat.

He participated in the music production for films as "Luisa," "El Dedo", "El Ultimo Elvis" (directed by Armando Bo) in which Anel was the producer of the Elvis Presley songs’ recreation).

In 2007, 2009 and 2011 Supercharango is awarded Mejor Productora de Música (Best Music Production Company) with a Premio Jerry Goldenberg a la Excelencia en la Comunicaciones.^[7]

Also Supercharango received eleven Lápiz de Oro, five Lápiz de Platino, a Gold Record, and a Gold FIAP, among other awards.

In these years he worked as a recording engineer on several albums, including: La Tabaré "18 Años" (also participating as a guest musician), Ratones Paranoicos "Enigma", Joaquin Sabina "Nos Sobran los Motivos", Sandro "Para Mamá, Sandro "Para Mamá Vol. 2”, Sandro "Recién Ayer", Sandro "Amor Gitano", Sandro "Secretamente Palabras de Amor", Turf "Para Mi, Para Vos Reversiones"(with Charly García, Los Tipitos, Villanos, among other guest artists).

El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F)

In 2007 he founds his new band: El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F), integrating Latin rock, funk and world music, creating an original and contemporary style.^[8]

In 2008 GP3F release its eponymous debut album, he records videos and tours various scenarios, including the Pepsi Music festival 2008, 2009 and 2011, the TV special at CM El Canal de la Musica in 2009, and the Primer Festival Itinerante de World Music tour through Patagonia in 2010.

The band was the opening act for Gilberto Gil in 2008, and Dominic Miller in 2011.

In December 2013 GP3F release "Maravillas", its second studio album, and continues performing shows, tours and videos.

In February 2015 plays in the festival Rock BA. In March of the same year GP3F begin its first international tour, participating in the festival South by Southwest (SXSW), which is joined by a promotional tour and concerts in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Miami and Los Angeles in the USA.

In July 2015 they perform a CM Vivo, at El Canal de la Música. In October 2015 the band undertakes a new tour in USA and Mexico where its new song "Maravillas" was released. The visit includes shows at the legendary Bulldog Cafe of CDMX, the Foro Independencia in Guadalajara, and at the Mint club in Los Angeles. In this tour the renowned Brazilian bass player and composer Arthur Maia join GP3F. At the same time they film their new video "Una Flor de Lis". In addition to providing seminars at the Universidad Libre de Música ULM (Guadalajara), and Musicians Institute in Los Angeles.

In April 2016 GP3F makes its third international tour returning to Mexico and adding Guatemala. They perform shows at the Bulldog Cafe (CDMX), in Guadalajara at The Urban, Tianguis Cultural and Vía Recreactiva (presentations supported by the University of Guadalajara), and at San Marcos Festival, Guatemala. In June, in the city of Niterói, Brazil, GP3F recorded a new version of its song "Bella Flor", with Brazilian musicians invited, offer a live show, and record the video of the song.
In October 2016, their fourth international tour they are presented at the Feria Internacional del Libro, Bulldog Cafe, Caradura, and Centro Cultural España (all in the CDMX), at the Festival Internacional Cervantino (Irapuato), at Palindromo (Guadalajara), and at the Festival Cultura Zapopan (Zapopan).

In March 2017, G3PF performs they fifth international tour with shows in the cities of CDMX, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Zapopan, Toluca, Puebla, Irapuato, León and Querétaro, among presentations at the Bulldog Cafe, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA), and Vive Latino 2017.

In July GP3F plays in Niterói (Brazil), and record in Rio de Janeiro a show on the program Todos As Bossas, for TV Brasil, together with Arthur Maia.

In October, GP3F returns to Brazil to play at Expomusic in São Paulo, along with Arthur Maia, Renato Neto and Manny Monteiro.

In November, they play again in the Personal Fest, this time at the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

GP3F has toured various scenarios including:

- Opening act for Gilberto Gil at Teatro Gran Rex 2008 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2008 (Argentina)

- CM Vivo at Canal de la Música 2009 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2009 (Argentina)

- Primer Festival Itinerante de World Music 2010 (Argentina)

- Opening act of Dominic Miller 2011 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2011 (Argentina)

- Quilmes Rock 2013 (Argentina)

- Rock BA 2015 (Argentina)

- South by Southwest SXSW 2015 (USA)

- Bulldog Café 2015-2016-2017 (México)

- CM Vivo en el Canal de la Música 2015 (Argentina) (click to watch the show)

- Festival Brahva de San Marcos 2016 (Guatemala)

- Festival Internacional Cervantino 2016 (México)

- Feria Internacional del Libro 2016 (México)

- Personal Fest Verano 2017 (Argentina)

- Vive Latino 2017 (México)

- TV Brasil - Todas As Bossas (Brasil)

- Feira Expomusic 2017 (Brasil)

- Personal Fest 2017 (Argentina)

Full Pampa

In 2013 Anel created his own production studio, Full Pampa, dedicated to artistic production and recording.

In Full Pampa he works with Banda de Turistas, Diemen Noord, the cycle CMTV Acústicos, El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F), Enrique Pinti, La Burrita Cumbión, Liliana Herrero, Limon, No Compro Más, Surfistas del Sistema, among other artists.

In 2016 he is jury of the contest "Camino a Abbey Road". In 2017 Anel is designated endoser by Tagima guitars.

Discography

References

External links

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