MediaBanda
MediaBanda | |
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Origin | Santiago, Chile |
Genres | Anti-hegemonic eclecticism,[1] rock in opposition, jazz-rock, alternative rock, jazz-funk, funk rock, Baroque pop, hard rock, Pop rock, rapcore, fusion jazz, latinamerican fusion, art-rock, avant-garde, free improvisation, experimental music, contemporary classical music. |
Years active | 2000–present |
Associated acts | Congreso, Fulano, Akinetón Retard, Crisis, Cómo Asesinar a Felipes, Code, Klaine Trío, DAZ, Zeptelar, Yonhosago, Zet, Arlette Jequier y Grupo, Colectivo Animal en Extinción. |
Website |
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MediaBanda is a multi-stylistic and eclectic musical band from Santiago, Chile. The group goes through genres such as pop rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion, contemporary music, and experimental music. It was formed in the year 2000 in Santiago de Chile by the saxophonist and composer Cristián Crisosto.[2]
Name
The name of the band, MediaBanda, means literally "half band" in spanish language, however in Chilean Spanish, the term media is used as big, huge, as well as awesome and impressive. Therefore the meaning of MediaBanda might be "Awesome Band".
History
Formation (2000–2002)
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A first group with the name of Mediabanda and composed by Cristián Crisosto, Jaime Vivanco, Pato Zúñiga, and Willy Valenzuela, began to operate at the beginning of the 1980s as a group that explored the fusion of rock, jazz, and free improvisation, also inspired in Rock in Opposition movement. However, when part of the group joined the rest of the final members, decided to change the name to Fulano, starting a great career from 1984 to 2015, leaving an indelible mark in the history of Chilean music. It is later to the album Trabajos Inútiles (1997) by Fulano that Cristián Crisosto begins an ambitious personal composition project, which in the year 2000 is concretized by putting together a new band, with his wife Arlette Jequier (voice), his daughter Regina Crisosto (voice), and seven other young musicians; Santiago Astaburuaga, (bass), Christian Hirth (drums), Daniel Linker (piano), Diego Aguirre (guitar), Sebastián Dintrans (guitar), Patricio Bracamonte (trombone), Marcelo Maira (flute and sax), taking up the previous name of MediaBanda. This is how the current Mediabanda was born.[3]
First period (2003–2010)
After a long period of rehearsals and workshop work to put together the complex compositions of Crisosto, Mediabanda launched in June 2004 its first album entitled Entre la inseguridad y el ego (Between Insecurity and Ego), financed thanks to the support of Fondart with a concert in the theater of the Alameda Cultural Center. The album stands out for its great musical eclecticism, compositional complexity and richness of sound, in songs that walk with ease through rock, funk, salsa, afro-Latin rhythms, pop melodies, jazz arrangements, avant-garde music and even at times, classical music. At the end of 2004, the faculty of the Escuela Moderna de Música awarded MediaBanda the prize for best band of the year, and Wikén magazine of the newspaper El Mercurio qualifies the group as the best new Chilean artist. As a result of the reception of the critics and the public, they are invited to participate in the 4th International Providence Jazz Festival, sharing the stage with international artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Yellowjackets and others. Later they would also act in Matucana 100 next to Akineton Retard, between other presentations of the period. In April 2005 he won his second Fondart project, which included a national tour that took place during the months of October and November.
In April 2006, they won for the third time a Fondart project to finance their second record production Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and nerve endings) which was recorded in January 2007 and launched in June of the same year in two concerts at the Cine Arte Alameda. The album was a double CD where their style of fusion rock, jazz, and contemporary music develops, consolidating the group as one of the most important of the Latin American progressive fusion style. This time the composition was also open to Hirth and Dintrans, in addition to notable experimental improvisations from Jequier, Hirth and Astaburuaga. A week later, they embark on a trip to Europe for a month and a half, performing in various halls, auditoriums and festivals such as the Nuits du Sud Festival in Vence France, and others in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria and Italy. Upon returning to Chile, they would perform at the Teatro Oriente next to Congreso and Akineton Retard. Later also with the experimental percussion group Code, in the same theater.
In 2010 he released the new album, Siendo Perro (Being dog), with a new line-up, which highlights the harmonic use of guitars as a replacement for the piano, and the incorporation of funk, and heavy rock to the already avant-garde jazz-rock fusion. Siendo Perro was released without the voice of Arlette Jequier, what glimpsed the beginning of the breaks within the band and that led to a silence of two years.[4]
Second period (2013 – present)
In mid-2013, a new line up for the second age of MediaBanda was gathered, including 6 new members. In 2014 they participate in the celebration of the 30 years of the Fulano group, held at the Nescafé Theater of Arts together with Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, Pedro Foncea (from De Kiruza), and Angelo Pierattini (from Weichafe). During this period the group made a series of performances re-opening a large part of the repertoire, which also had the collaboration of Consuelo Schuster and Celeste Shaw in voices and that coincided with an important rotation of musicians in the base formation.
During 2016 they are composing and recording their highly anticipated new album, Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air), which premieres in January 2017 in a crowded Sala SCD in Plaza Egaña. The following week they are presented with great success at the Woodstaco Festival 2017 in the Maule Region, before thousands of people, and then continue the presentations of the album release in the Valparaíso Region.[5] It was recorded in CHT Estudios as a musical workshop experiment instead of the use of the scores that had been the fundamental support in the early days. During the months of July and August they make a tour to Mexico that includes presentations in the Jalisco Jazz Festival in Guadalajara, the FestivAlterNativo in Querétaro, in addition to the cultural circuit of Mexico City. Back in Chile, they perform a series of presentations with other avant-garde bands such as Crisis (by Nicolás Vera and Cristián Gallardo), Sube, Zet, Cola de Zorro, and Ojo de Pez among others. In January 2018, they participate again in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Festival Woodstaco in Teno.[6][7][8]
Discography
- 2004 – Entre la Inseguridad y el Ego (Between Insecurity and Ego)
- 2007 – Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and Nervous Termination)
- 2010 – Siendo Perro (Being Dog)
- 2017 – Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air)[9]
Members
Current
- Cristián Crisosto, composition, flute, saxs (2000- )
- Christian Hirth, drums (2000 - )
- Rodrigo Aguirre, saxs and flute (2009 - )
- Rafael Chaparro, saxs (2013 - )
- Tomás Ravassa, piano and keyboards (2013 - )
- Aurelio Silva, guitar (2013 - )
- Valentina Mardones, voice (2014 - )
- Felipe Martínez, bass (2015 - )
Historic
- Patricio Bracamonte, trombón (2000–2005)
- Daniel Linker, piano and keyboards (2000–2006)
- Santiago Astaburuaga, bass (2000–2008)
- Arlette Jequier, voice and clarinet (2000–2009)
- Marcelo Maira, flute and saxs (2000–2009)
- Diego Aguirre, guitar (2000–2010)
- Regina Crisosto, voice and marimbas (2000–2010)
- Sebastián Dintrans, guitar (2000–2010)
- Cristóbal Dahm, clarinet, saxs (2005 - 2017)
- Jaime Ramos, piano keyboards (2006–2009)
- Javier Barahona, bass (2008–2010, 2014)
- Francisco Loyola, piano (2009)
- Nicolás Voigth, bass (2013)
- Carolina Riveros, voice (2013)
- Benjamín Lechuga, guitar (2013–2014)
- Matías Baeza, guitar (2015–2016)
References
- ↑ González, Juan Pablo (2017-09-20). Des/encuentros de la música popular chilena 1970-1990 (in Spanish). Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. ISBN 9789563571103. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ↑ "Web Oficial de Mediabanda - Inicio". www.mediabanda.cl.
- ↑ "MediaBanda".
- ↑ "MEDIABANDA". Progarchives.com.
- ↑ "MediaBanda lanza nuevo disco "Bombas en el aire"". Rockaxis.
- ↑ "Mediabanda-Bombas en el Aire (2017) » Sonidos Ocultos". 5 April 2017.
- ↑ "MEDIABANDA : Eclecticismo Antihegemónico en Sala Master - - iRock WebZine". www.irock.cl.
- ↑ 20Minutos. "MediaBanda presentará su disco "Bombas en el aire" en la Ciudad de México".
- ↑ "MediaBanda". Discogs.