Saturday, June 18, 2011

Jamalandruki

Josetxo Goia-Arribe y la Orquesta Jamalandruki at Café Central in Madrid. The name of the band is taken from a magician, a character in Pamplona in the sixties. At first I thought the group's music sounded like kletzmer crossed with jazz, but Goia-Arribe said that it was based on the traditional sounds of his native Pamplona, and especially the sounds of San Fermin, like the paso dobles they play at bullfights. This laced with a generous dose of Thelonius Monk.

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