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31st March 2018 VIVA TIRADO INTERVIEW…RODANDO CALLES
1. How did Viva Tirado begin? We are a Valencia based band. The heart and soul of Viva Tirado is Nacho Pereda and myself, Noelia Sayas. Between us we run & direct everything concerned with the band. On an artistic level, I write the songs and Nacho deals with the arrangements and production. We’ve been […]
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13th March 2018 JOSH ROUSE EMBERS OF TIME
1. You have described this project as your “surreal expat mid-life crisis” album. What was going on in your mind and could you tell us about your time in therapy? After you’ve made 11 albums it’s impossible to put one out under the pretext that it is just 10 songs that i thought were quality. […]
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16th February 2018 SPLENDINI BAR i DISCOS
‘Splendini Bar i Discos’ opened its doors on Calle Segorbe número 10, just last December! It is a stone’s throw from the main train station so very central and easy to find. Splendini is an evolution from the old record shop Mardigras!, which opened to the public in 1999. It changed various locations over its […]
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12th December 2017 JAZZ IN VALENCIA…INTERVIEW WITH VIKTORIJA PILATOVIC
1.Tell us something about your musical background and experiences… I was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, I was involved in different musical activities from a very early age. When I was six years old, I started playing classical piano. I was part of a very strict classical music world until the age of 13. My teenage […]
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28th September 2017 FOLK JAZZ ARABE
An award-winning novelist has described their music as “fascinating,” a film director finds their music “mezmerizing” and El País has described their concerts as “unmissable”. The word on the street is that ‘Folk-Jazz-Arabe’ are one of the most exciting and original bands on the Valencia music scene. Who are Folk-Jazz-Arabe? We’re a trio of […]
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28th July 2017 CIFU GOES BACK TO HIS ROCKER ROOTS
THE VALENCIANO SINGER-SONGWRITER ‘CIFU’ PRESENTS HIS MOST ‘ROCKERO’ PROJECT: “I CHOSE A BAD DAY TO LEAVE YOU” “I Chose a Bad Day to Leave You” is the third studio album by the singer-songwriter Sergio Cifuentes “Cifu” (València, 1979). After his two previous works “De Fiera en Fiera” (2013) and “The Other Side of the […]
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25th July 2017 FIB 2017 FESTIVAL FEVER IN BENICÀSSIM
If someone asked you if you would like to spend a weekend living in abject squalor and inescapable heat whilst being surrounded on all sides by drunken strangers, there are few of us out there who would jump at the opportunity. However, this year around 150,000 people opted to gleefully immerse themselves in […]
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14th July 2017 Festival Season in July and August
Summer’s here. It’s hot inside and there’s nothing new on Netflix. So it’d be better to get outside, there’s plenty to do, especially given that it is festival season! If you’re already keen as mustard to get into it but you’re still going to be stuck in the city for a while, don’t worry! You […]
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19th May 2017 WILL McCARTHY
SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER Emmy-Award nominated Hollywood Film Sound Mixer & Sound Editor Robert Gravenor describes Will McCarthy’s instrumental music as “virtuoso and versatile…there is real poetry in his playing.” Robert Gravenor coordinated Will McCarthy’s first solo album entitled “This is Music for Films”. Robert Gravenor’s praise of Will McCarthy’s music is qualified as being a sound […]
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3rd October 2016 PALAU DE LES ARTS…. SUSANNA GREGORIAN (CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA)
24/7 VALENCIA: Tell us something about your background and musical experiences. SUSANNA GREGORIAN: I was born into an Armenian family of musicians and scientists. As a child, I was always listening to music and singing even before I started speaking. I also wished to be a dancer but the magnificent sound of the violin won […]
