Tune up: Radio Tarifa
Arguably Spain's most original gift to world music since the invention of timeless flamenco, Radio Tarifa work with musicians from different walks of life and musical backgrounds: touching on jazz, rock, and a little flamenco with a wealth of Arab music and music from Spain's classical heritage.
They use different sounds and timbres, from traditional Mediterranean instruments like the Derbuka, el Ney or the Ud (an Arabic lute) to medieval instruments like the Cromorno or oriental ones like the Bansuri (the Hindu flute) - or modern instruments like the electric bass, electric guitar or the Hammond organ. Radio Tarifa was created at the end of the 1980s by three musicians: Fain S. Dueñas, percussions, strings and arrangements, Benjamin Escoriza, singer and lyric writer, from Granada, and woodwind virtuoso Vincent Molino.
They have delighted audiences all over the world and were recently nominated at the WOMEX convention for the Radio 3 World Music Awards (to be held in Edinburgh in March 2004). Radio Tarifa's music is not so much a fusion as a mosaic of Iberian cultures past and present - a celebration of all things Mediterranean and modal. Fans (and there are a lot of them) have come to expect the unexpected from these mercurial Spanish innovators.
Producer: Soundsfine
Ltd
email: billykelly@soundsfine.co.uk
Tel: 0141 221 0359
