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Artist News: Cides Stick Tour 2006

Posted on Saturday, November 04 @ 20:42:52 UTC by nightowl

After presenting his tr?o Electrik Consort in the last tour, the Stickista returns to Argentina in company of the American singer Linda Cushma. Diffuser of the Stick and one of few performers of this particular instrument, [Guillermo] Cides is back to the stage -- offering his particular point of view about the instrument and the music in a concert both intimate as well as unique. The tour will cover 22 Argentinean cities.



The adventures of Mr. Cides in 2005 led to the presentation of a novel tr?o of unusual instruments with European/American musicians, while at this same time beginning the recording of an album -- the CCA Project (Cides, Linda Cushma and Tim Alexander of Primus), with Trey Gunn and Tony Levin as guests.

Now he returns to his favorite format of soloist performance, where the sounds and the melod?es coming from his Stick of 10 strings characteristically mark his style. In a concert where the imagination mixes with the instrumental possibilities, this musician also uses a technique of recording sounds on the stage in the same moment in which the sounds are played.

Cides, relocating to Barcelona years ago, has commented in interviews, " ... the art?stic exile happens for several reasons: from a simple economic matter, to an absence of interest and structure of a country to take care of its artists. Many of these reasons led me to establishing a base in Spain through these last years, even long before the crisis, as do so many other emigrated artists. This 'cultural fugue' strengthens many foreign countries - principally Spain, which every day welcomes writers, film directors, musicians, ballet dancers and artists in general that must look for new horizons far from their countries. For my part, I return every year to my country Argentina to play concerts for two montha in an automanaged tour organized for particular persons who fight for another cultural identity. I do it for ideologic reasons, more than for devaluated reasons of pesos and euros."

He has been invited to join the concerts of Roger Hodgson (Supertramp); Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Fish; Rick Wakeman (Yes); Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and several Argentinean artists of different styles as Lito Vitale, Liliana Herrero and Biravent. He is the founder of the Stick Center in Argentina and Spain, an association designed to promote the music of the Stick, an invention of Californian Emmett Chapman. He has produced four albums, El Mundo Interior De Los Planetas, Primitivo, the brilliant The Bach Tribute, -- completely played with the Stick -- and the recent Compilation of Stickistas with 22 Hispanic artists. At present he collaborates with the Spanish magazine Guitarra Actual And Bajista Y Revista De Jazz with featured section, "The Stick Center Pages."

For this tour he will be joined by his friend of many adventures, Linda Cushma (Stick, voices, percussion). The singer lives in Arizona and travels frequently to Europe to perform concerts. She presently works with Oxygene8 and the band Ezoo formed with musicians from Mexicali, Mexico. Her discography collaboration with the CCA Project will be presented in the following months. Drummer, bassist, stickista, singer and actress, Cushma is a restless artist and seeker of new musical forms.

This will be a different concert.

Comments and reviews :

"The best stickist I have never seen was in Argentina: Guillermo Cides..." Trey Gunn (King Crimson)

"Cides has made become real what I had in my mind when I designed the instrument." Emmett Chapman, Stick inventor.

"I think that the music lovers around the world will enjoy his concerts" John Wetton (Asia, U.K.)

"El Mundo Interior De Los Planetas is an instrumental record of the stick-maestro Guillermo Cides, that puts him in the same level as his contemporaries Tony Levin and Trey Gunn. His courage in his work is also in his passion and his extraordinary technique" Progression Magazine, (USA)

[see our concert calendar for dates -ed.]

[Source: Stick Center]

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