cabosanroque
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | SELF
Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
“The quartet has constructed a fantastic understandable and absolutely musical and
organic work. The machine they have reconstructed is a beautiful representation of a
cookies factory and a sound factory with schematic lines of string, wind and percussion. The four members of CaboSanRoque demonstrated their ability as multi-instrumentalists in a mixture of spaghetti western , Ry Cooder, chameleon tunes and ballads full of soul.
Anyway, the confirmation of art beyond the machine.”
- Estebán Linés , La Vanguardia (19/06/2010)
“The quartet has constructed a fantastic understandable and absolutely musical and
organic work. The machine they have reconstructed is a beautiful representation of a
cookies factory and a sound factory with schematic lines of string, wind and percussion. The four members of CaboSanRoque demonstrated their ability as multi-instrumentalists in a mixture of spaghetti western , Ry Cooder, chameleon tunes and ballads full of soul.
Anyway, the confirmation of art beyond the machine.”
- Estebán Linés , La Vanguardia (19/06/2010)
“It smelled of vanilla in the theatre. Only the idea is already worth an empire. But it was
not just a nice tale. A screen offered images of the cookies in their conveyor belts,
falling to be packaged while a voice of an actual worker reminded the music made by the
machine where the slightest variation announced mechanical problems. A worker speaking of music, melody and rhythm, the elements which warned him in its little variation. Four musicians playing as workers. All of them around a machine. A fantastic show.”
- Luis Hidalgo, El País (7/03/2010)
One of the most personal and unusual artistic formations of the Catalan scene of the last decade, always in the creative eye of the storm.”
Estebán Linés , La Vanguardia (18/06/2010)
- Estebán Linés , La Vanguardia (18/06/2010)
Discography
Bal de Pistons, Autoedited, 2010
Musica a maquina, Autoedited, 2008
França Xica, G3G Records 2005
Membrillo EP, CaboSanRoque vs Luciano Bruchstuecke 2003
CaboSanRoque G3G Records 2003
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Bio
A biscuit factory converted into music. CaboSanRoque presents its latest invention: the Mechanical Orchestra from França Xica. After a full year of construction, the Orchestra appeared in it´s first show The night shift; after which, CaboSanRoque continued working on the project, adding new sounds and instruments, and improving the informatics system in order to extend the technical and creative performances of the artefact. A non conventional orchestra, ideal for any kind of musical proposition from a conventional concert to collaborations with other musicians and composers, as well as other artistic forms such as dance, the circus, the plastic arts and cinema.
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