Gustavo Pazos Conde
Caraguata - Guitar Works from Uruguay (CD)

S62614

I came into contact with the guitar as a child and we have been inseparable ever since.
My first classes were with an old teacher in the El Cordon district of Montevideo. It was he who helped me make the transition within a few years from the classical guitar of Sor and Carcassi to the traditional gaucho guitar of the milonga, vidalita and estilo. These latter guitar put their musical stamp on me once and for all thanks to my experiences from early childhood and adolescence in the countryside around Tacuarembó, in the heart of Uruguay. There the guitar sings and makes people dance during rural fiestas.
Years later, I sporadically received more academic training with the Uruguayan guitarist Magdalena Jimeno from NEMUS (Núcleo de Educación Musical Institute) and in Amsterdam, for a couple of years, at the Sweelinck Conservatory. But my true (more self-taught than academic) training occurred on stage with other musicians. I had already started performing in public at the age of 19 going to play in groups, solo and in several cases accompanying singers; activities I used to engage until some years ago. It was during this time that I created my first songs, musical poems.
In this period some recordings were made, prior to the digital era: El Retorno (1983), Vida y Oficios (1984) and Aparceros (1988). My first instrumental cd for works for two guitars appeared while I was living in the Netherlands and was called Papas Calientes (1998), with the Dutch classical guitarist Esther Steenbergen. This stage of my life has greatly enriched me as a guitarist thanks to the constant and unrelenting demands made on me by my duo partner Esther, and have given rise to an aesthetic maturity in my music which has continued until this day.

Track listing:

01. Campos De La Tarde (Estilo)
02. Arpa Y Rio (Aire Litoraleno)
03. Aire De Vals
04. Tango Tangues
05. Aire De Candombe
06. Ninos De Papel
07. Tonos Negros
08. La Sarabanda
09. Caraguata
10. Tierra Negra
11. Recuerdos De La Pampa
12. Ta'bailanta

Published: 2012

Genre: Middle & North America & Tango
Label: Sophrane