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Editorial 
22nd June 2020 OPEN AGAIN! TAPAS AND VINYL RECORDS AT ‘SPLENDINI BAR i DISCOS’
##‘Splendini Bar i Discos’ is a stone’s throw from the main train station so very central and easy to find. Jordi Belenguer and Jose ‘Mardi’ have a “local” that literally mixes the concept of a BAR & RECORD SHOP. You can enjoy good beers, wines and liqueurs accompanied by the best music on offer with […]
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6th June 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…. PIANIST & COMPOSER ‘PAU VIGUER’
24/7 VALENCIA: Tell us something about your life and career as a musician. PAU VIGUER: My grandmother had a piano in her house and I started studying the piano there with a teacher at the age of seven. There weren’t any music academies in Valencia at that time. So, the following year I entered the […]
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3rd June 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…BUDDY PAUL
##24/7 Valencia: Tell us something about your musical background and upbringing… BUDDY PAUL: Hi, ‘24/7 Valencia’. First off, a big thanks for taking the time and interest to help keep the music scene alive in Valencia and Spain in general, nice one! This first one is quite a biggy. I was born in East London […]
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Editorial 
1st June 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…’NAIMA’
1. How did ‘Naima’ begin ? Naima began in 2004 with the intention of making music, influenced by jazz but not in any way bound to its rules and regulations. With the risk of being in no man’s land, where no-one can box us into a category, we prefer to develop our creativity with our […]
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31st May 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…MARK TAIT OF 5th AND PONTIAC
Tell us something about your background and experiences. I spent my formative years on the island of South Uist. It is located off the west coast of Scotland, way up north. Everybody seemed to sing or play an instrument. It might have been because there was only one television station and I may be wrong […]
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30th May 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC WITH ‘JUNE’S KALEIDOSCOPE’
24/7 VALENCIA: ##Tell us something about your musical background and influences… JUNE’S KALEIDOSCOPE: I grew up as a classically trained pianist, starting to have piano lessons at the age of six. Then I entered my first Conservatory and finished my degree almost fourteen years after. Those years gave me the music foundations to compose my […]
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29th May 2020 WHEN RAY GELATO (THE GODFATHER OF SWING) PLAYED VALENCIA!
RAY GELATO WITH ENRIC PEIDRO Cafe Mercedes Jazz:“Throughout the album, Gelato and Peidro musically bring out the best in these compositions that, without exception, come from the pen of some of the brightest saxophonists and “Swingantes” that Jazz has known. This includes Gene Ammons, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Flip Phillips, “Lockjaw” Davis, Charlie Ventura, Jacquet […]
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28th May 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…SPUTNIK
1-Who are Sputnik? Sputnik is the key name of the cosmonaut Antonio J. Iglesias, appointed for a secret Jamaican space mission. There is an imaginary satellite that captures signals and filters & transmits them whilst continuing to orbit in space: A Jamaican dream. It is a solitary experiment but at the same time it is […]
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Editorial 
18th May 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…ERIN CORINE
##24/7 Valencia: Can you tell us something about your musical background & education? Erin Corine: My musical background is a curious combination of family tradition and formal training in classical music. I’ve always felt a beautifully ethereal connection of undying love and devotion to my first instrument, the flute, but I’ve come around in the […]
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25th April 2020 VALENCIA MUSIC…JOHN ALEXANDER MARTINEZ (Le Garçon Rêvé)
“I guess you could say I’m a delicate man I gave my heart to fried calamari & crap TV It’s not the apathy in me It’s not the clumsiness in me My rusty self unavailable, irreclaimable on this Spanish beach Eloquence & style won’t save me in this town Sea, sun for free Sex? Well, […]
