MediaBanda
MediaBanda | |
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Origin | Santiago, Chile |
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Years active | 2003–2010, 2013–present |
Website | www |
MediaBanda is a
Name
The name of the band, MediaBanda, means literally "half band" in spanish language, hinting to be half of a big band, however in Chilean Spanish, the term media is used as big, huge, as well as awesome and impressive. Therefore, the meaning of MediaBanda might be "Awesome Band".[4]
History
Formation (2000–2002)
A first band named MediaBanda and formed by Pato Zúñiga, Cristián Crisosto, Jaime Vivanco, Willy Valenzuela, Raúl González, Sergio Pinto, and Miguel Schain, began to operate at the beginning of the 1980s as a group that explored the fusion of
First period (2003–2010)
After a long period of rehearsals and workshop work to put together the complex compositions of Crisosto, Mediabanda launched in June 2004 its first album entitled Entre la inseguridad y el ego (Between Insecurity and Ego), financed thanks to the support of Fondart with a concert in the theater of the Centro Arte Alameda. The album stands out for its great musical eclecticism, compositional complexity and richness of sound, in songs that walk with ease through rock, funk, salsa, afro-latin rhythms, pop melodies, jazz arrangements, avant-garde music and even at times, classical music. At the end of 2004, the faculty of the Escuela Moderna de Música awarded MediaBanda the prize for best band of the year, and Wikén magazine of the newspaper El Mercurio qualifies the group as the best new Chilean artist. As a result of the reception of the critics and the public, they are invited to participate in the 4th Providencia Jazz International Festival, sharing the stage with international artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Yellowjackets, Lito Vitale and others. Later they would also act in Centro Cultural Matucana 100 next to Akineton Retard, between other presentations of the period. In April 2005 he won his second Fondart project, which included a national tour that took place during the months of October and November.[6]
In April 2006, they won for the third time a Fondart project to finance their second record production Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and nerve endings) which was recorded in January 2007 and launched in June of the same year in two concerts at the Centro Arte Alameda. The album was a double CD where their style of fusion rock, jazz, and contemporary music develops, consolidating the group as one of the most important of the Latin American progressive fusion style. This time the composition was also open to Hirth and Dintrans, in addition to notable experimental improvisations from Jequier, Hirth and Astaburuaga. A week later, they embark on a trip to Europe for a month and a half, performing in various halls, auditoriums and festivals such as the Nuits du Sud Festival in Vence France, and others in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria and Italy.[7] Upon returning to Chile, they would perform at the Teatro Oriente next to Congreso and Akineton Retard. Later also with the experimental percussion group Code, in the same theater.
In 2010 they released a new album called Siendo Perro (Being dog), with a new line-up which highlights the harmonic use of guitars as a replacement for the piano, and the incorporation of funk, and hard rock to the already avant-garde jazz-rock fusion. Siendo Perro was released without the voice of Arlette Jequier, what glimpsed the beginning of the breaks within the band and that led to a silence of more than two years.[8]
Second period (2013 – present)
In mid-2013, a new line up for the second age of MediaBanda was gathered, including six new members. In 2014 they participate in the celebration of the 30 years of the Fulano group, held at the Nescafé Theater of Arts together with Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, Pedro Foncea (from De Kiruza), and Angelo Pierattini (from Weichafe). During this period the group made a series of performances re-opening a large part of the repertoire, which also had the collaboration of Consuelo Schuster and Celeste Shaw in voices and that coincided with an important rotation of musicians in the base formation.[9]
During 2016 they composed and recorded their highly anticipated new album, Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air), which premiered in January 2017 in a crowded Sala SCD in Plaza Egaña. The following week they are presented with great success at the Woodstaco Festival 2017 in Maule Region, before thousands of people, then continuing the album presentations in Valparaíso Region.[10][11] It was recorded in CHT Estudios as a musical workshop experiment instead of the usage of scores that had been the fundamental support in the early days. During the months of July and August they went on tour to Mexico which included presentations in the Jalisco Jazz Festival in Guadalajara, the FestivAlterNativo in Querétaro, in addition to the cultural circuit of Mexico City. Back in Chile, they performed a series of presentations with other avant-garde bands such as Crisis (by Nicolás Vera and Cristián Gallardo), Sube, Zet, Cola de Zorro, Aisles, Fósil and Ojo de Pez among others. In January 2018, they participated in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Woodstaco Festival in Teno.[12][13][14]
Since late 2018 they are presenting the show "Mediabanda Plays Fulano", premiered on November 16, 2018, at the Teatro Oriente with guests such as Pablo Ilabaca (from
Musical style
Cristian Crisosto's main influences have been American composer
MediaBanda has been called by the prestigious musicologist Juan Pablo González as "
Discography
- 2004 – Entre la Inseguridad y el Ego (Between Insecurity and Ego)
- 2007 – Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and Nerve Endings)
- 2010 – Siendo Perro (Being Dog)
- 2017 – Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air)[24]
- 2021 – Maquinarias (Machinery)
Members
Current
- Cristián Crisosto, composition, flute, saxs, voice (2000- )
- Christian Hirth, drums (2000 - )
- Rodrigo Aguirre, saxs and flute (2009 - )
- Rafael Chaparro, saxs (2013 - )
- Tomás Ravassa, piano and keyboards (2013 - )
- Aurelio Silva, guitar (2013 - )
- Felipe Martínez, bass (2015 - )
- Florencia Novoa, voice (2019 - )
Former
- Patricio Bracamonte, trombone (2000–2005)
- Daniel Linker, piano and keyboards (2000–2006)
- Santiago Astaburuaga, bass (2000–2008)
- Arlette Jequier, voice and clarinet (2000–2009)
- Marcelo Maira, flute and saxs (2000–2009)
- Diego Aguirre, guitar (2000–2010)
- Regina Crisosto, voice and synths (2000–2010)
- Sebastián Dintrans, guitar (2000–2010)
- Cristóbal Dahm, clarinet, saxs (2005–2017)
- Jaime Ramos, piano keyboards (2006–2009)
- Javier Barahona, bass (2008–2010, 2014)
- Francisco Loyola, piano (2009)
- Nicolás Voigth, bass (2013)
- Carolina Riveros, voice (2013)
- Benjamín Lechuga, guitar (2013–2014)
- Matías Baeza, guitar (2015–2016)
- Valentina Mardones, voice (2014–2018)
References
- ISBN 9789563571103. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
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- ^ "Web Oficial de Mediabanda - Inicio". www.mediabanda.cl.
- ^ Romey, Jared (2010). Speaking chileno: a guide to chilean slang (in Spanish). RIL Editores.
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- ^ Cooperativa.cl. "Festival Providencia Jazz regresa al Parque de las Esculturas luego de siete años". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ S.A.P, El Mercurio (2007-06-26). "MediaBanda parte a intensa gira por Europa | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ "MEDIABANDA". Progarchives.com.
- ^ "MediaBanda". MediaBanda | MusicaPopular.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ "Mediabanda en Valparaíso: Presentación "Bombas en el Aire"". Fanear (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ "MediaBanda lanza nuevo disco "Bombas en el aire"". Rockaxis.
- ^ "Mediabanda-Bombas en el Aire (2017) » Sonidos Ocultos". 5 April 2017.
- ^ "MEDIABANDA : Eclecticismo Antihegemónico en Sala Master - - iRock WebZine". www.irock.cl.
- ^ 20Minutos (9 August 2017). "MediaBanda presentará su disco "Bombas en el aire" en la Ciudad de México".
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- ^ "MediaBanda lanzó "Maquinarias", disco homenaje a Fulano y Jaime Vivanco". 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Los 10 discos fundamentales de Cristián Crisosto [CLSK Entrevista]". CLSK (in Spanish). 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "MediaBanda - Entre La Inseguridad Y El Ego (2004)". cabezademoog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ Quirarte, Xavier (2017-08-10). "MediaBanda, el eclecticismo antihegemónico desde Chile". Milenio. Retrieved 2023-07-28 – via PressReader.
- ISBN 9789563571103. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "MediaBanda - Bombas en el Aire (2017)". cabezademoog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "MediaBanda - Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (2007)". cabezademoog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ Veliz, Freddy. "Live Review | MEDIABANDA : Eclecticismo Antihegemónico en Sala Master" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "MediaBanda". Discogs.