====2024====
Coming up!!!
27 feb The trio!!! Steve altenberg on drums – Guillermo Celano on guitar with a very special guest Boris Kozlov on double bass from New York. Smederij JAZZ Groningen.
29 feb Gerard Kleijn trio in Cafe Alto. Gerard Kleijn trumpet, Guillermo Celano Guitar and Joris Teepe contrabas.
4 march De Pletterij. Playing with Master tenor player Chris Cheek!!!
DROP ME OFF IN HAARLEM: CHEEK-CELANO-HAANSTRA
20:00
8 March Cafe Alto, Amsterdam. Iman Spaargaren Quintet!!!
16 Jazz Festival Amsterdam. CHEEK-CELANO-HAANSTRA
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Undercurrent Trio –
Going to Cuba! #Tour 2024
21 – 28 January 2024 – Festival Internacional #Jazz Plaza, La Habana, #Cuba
====2023====
Undercurrent Trio + Gerard Kleijn
2 – 4 November 2023 – Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival, Buenos Aires (With Martin de Lassaleta on bass and Nicolas Boccanera on piano)
5 – 6 November 2023 – Concerts, ECEM, Mar del Plata
9 November 2023 – Concert, Casa Sonora, Ituzaingo
10 – 11 November Festival International de Jazz de Córdoba, Córdoba
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Guillermo Celano Trio “Dreamer” is out by Challenge Records!!!!
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MICHAEL MOORE ‘UNIVERSE QUARTET’ 2023
28 May Plofhuis7, Weesp
1 June Bimhuis, Amsterdam
Michael Moore altsax/klarinet, Guillermo Celano gitaar, Omer Govreen contrabas, Onno Govaert drums
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The new album is out!!!
“A place in Time” (Koshkil Records 2023)
Duo Guillermo Celano – Natalio Sued
released January 30, 2023
Natalio Sued: clarinet, bass clarinet
Guillermo Celano: electric guitar
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UNDERCURRENT ORCHESTRA 2023
Exciting and dreamy
3rd February at the Bimhuis
6 april at Brebl #nijmegen https://www.brebl.nl/event/2023/04/undercurrent-orchestra
8 april at @Pletterij #haarlem https://pletterij.nl/…/za-08-apr-23-undercurrent…/
Iman Spaargaren klarinet/basklarinet/tenorsax, Annie Tångberg cello, Gerard Kleijn trompet, Joost Buis trombone, Guillermo Celano gitaar, Marcos Baggiani drums
====2022====
North sea Jazz 2022 was great!!!
Thanks to all the people who came the concert and to the organisers!!!!
Joachim Badenhorst – clarinet, bass clarinet & tenor sax// Guillermo Celano – guitar// Marcos Baggiani – drums// Wolfert Brederode – Piano
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The new album is out!!!
Celano/Badenhorst/Baggiani, with a special guest on piano: Wolfert Brederode.
Joachim Badenhorst – clarinet, bass clarinet & tenor sax// Guillermo Celano – guitar// Marcos Baggiani – drums// Wolfert Brederode – Piano
Album presentation: “Carnet Imaginaire” Challenge Records 2022
“…extraordinary atmospheres in a cozy and enigmatic ambiance with a beautiful cover of the Hymn a l’amour (Edith Piaf).” ***/3
Le Soir by Jean-Claude Vantroyen, Belgium 12 april 2022
“… Elegant melodies peel out of stumbled sequences of beats, great melancholic themes grow out of quiet banter, enigmatic voices murmur and lament, tribal beats seek their way in the diffuse sonic interference fire of manipulated saxophone and manipulated guitars…”
CD of the week at NDR Kultur (DE)-March 2022
27 May at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam (NL) 20.30 hs
29 May De Bijloke, Gent (BE) 14.30 hs
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New CD out!!!
CD Presentation
OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT
U-JAZZ 2022 Festival, May 14, 2022
https://www.ujazz.nl/undercurrent-orchestra/
UNDERCURRENT ORCHESTRA – “EVERYTHING SEEMS DIFFERENT”
Iman Spaargaren – clarinet, Annie Tångberg – cello, Gerard Kleijn – trumpet, Joost Buis – trombone, Guillermo Celano – guitar, Marc Baggiani – drums
OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT U-JAZZ 2022 Festival, 14 may
https://www.ujazz.nl/undercurrent-orchestra/
Iman Spaargaren and his Undercurrent Orchestra is a contemporary jazz ensemble in a modern chambre line up. Playing grooves, telling stories, laying dreamy soundscapes and serving sizzling improvisations. All straight from the heart.
‘Everything Seems Different’ is their musical commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic. The album contains songs about fear and hope, boredom and inspiration, sadness and joy.
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Check out this new record by a great artist, guitarist, composer and friend!!!! I love it!
Rodrigo Faina and change ensemble “Different Roots” (2021 Red Piano Records NYC)
“And now for something completely different! (…) Jazz, classical-contemporary music and literature. Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble ties it all together with a superb interpretation and wonderful improvisations, as Guillermo Celano’s guitar solo on “A room full of people”, wow! A great example how inspiration for good music can emerge anywhere”. Read more.
JEAN-CLAUDE VANTROYEN – LE MAD / LE SEOIR (BE)
(****) “Faina’s clay creations are difficult to describe because of the diversity they offer. Spoken texts and unison wind passages are just as available as trumpet, drums and guitar solos; sometimes with rock elements or close to film music, tenderly lyrical and dreamy. A 50-minute recording that breaks down genre boundaries”. Read more
CHRISTIAN BAKONYI – CONCERTO (AU)
https://rodrigofaina.com/change-ensemble-2/
to order the album write me an email to: info@rodrigofaina.com
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My new album is out!!!
Folkert Oosterbeek on piano, Clemens van der Feen on double bass, G.Celano on guitar and compositions and Flin van Hemmen on drums.
“Fiction and Reality” once again shows what a brilliant guitarist Celano is. From finely drawn-out melody lines to nasty improvisations. Celano is a versatile guitarist and composer. Unimpeded by clichés or stuffy frames, he absorbs a variety of music styles and then turns it into a quirky sparkling mixture. Jazz, classical, pop, impro, rock: Celano keeps adding new insights. The album title “Fiction and Reality” is melodious; fiction and reality represent concrete and abstract, which also overlap”.
Jazzenzo, Erno Elsinga, august 2020. NL
…”In this landscape, this world of sound, nothing is as hammock-blissful as it initially seemed. The guitar gets into thin air in its tendon and a light bends and breaks beauty. Celano’s melodiousness, which harvests the heart fibers, is aware of the dissonance between fiction and reality and unleashes reality with Hendrix’s fury”.
Bad Alchemy magazine, Rigobert Dittmann june 2020, Germany.
“A record with far-reaching improvisations, which can not to be described as “free”, but instead show the extensive creative insight and fantasy of the four musicians. Diversity is an asset, based on the deeper intention behind this album: impressions of the most recent trip that Celano made to South America. That makes Fiction and Reality – with titles of pieces such as Los Andes, Peru, Landscape and Precious metals in exchange for contaminated water – a recording as colorful as the countries of this continent”.
Jazznu RINUS VAN DER HEIJDEN, august 2020
“Whereas with the Celano/Baggiani the Amsterdam im-pro, jazz and Argentine roots predominate, the main focus here is on the rock side of Celano’s musical universe. The nice thing about it is that he is a gifted blacksmith melody so that the music on this debut album, “Fiction And Reality”, always remains accessible”.
Jazz Flits, Herman te Loo, july 2020, NL
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Check out this new trio:
Humanes
https://www.humanesmusic.com/
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Presenting “My father held a gun” in the Theatre National Wallonie-bruxelles.
From 4th to 16th februari 2020.
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Wild Man Conspiracy!!!!
November 16th, NEw Dimensions in Jazz Festival – Bremen – Germany
====2019=====
24/25/27/28 october
25 | BBC, Jamboree, Barcelona. Gorka Benitez: t sax & flute, Guillermo Celano: gr, Marc Baggiani: dr
Marc Baggiani – bateria
-27 oktober: Café De Machinist, Rotterdam
Celano/Badenhorst/Baggiani
Joachim Badenhorst – klarinet, basklarinet en tenorsaxofoon
Guillermo Celano – gitaar
Marcos Baggiani – slagwerk
-28 oktober
Theater De Vest, Alkmaar, Jazz Café
Michael Moore (klarinet/sax) & Guillermo Celano (gitaar) Marc Schenk (percussie) en Kasper Kalf (bas).
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Sept/okt
Celano/Badenhorst/Baggiani
27 september, Paradox, Tilburg, Featuring Wolfert Brederode on piano.
6 october, Inverdan, Zaandam
27 october,The machinist, Rotterdam
“This is smart and interesting music. Modern jazz with a very open perspective.
The three artists meet for a wonderful journey through the land of music, touching on a number of musical influences through their compositions, and adding joyous improvisations welcoming other cultures and people and sounds into their idiom. The music is genre-bending, with little tunes and compositions that sound vaguely familiar, as if taken from our common unconscious and reformated into something more modern and exciting.” Stef Gijssels, january 2019 Free jazz Blog (****1/2)
The sound of the trio is almost like their presence itself, deeply human. Together, they create a unique music world in which we can trip through time amid our own emotions”. Sightsong, Japan, december 2018
“The perpetual challenge of reconciling the embraceable passages with those more abrupt and acerbic is a limitless source of fun and intrigue.”Birth is the worm, Dave Sumner, U.S.A. december 2018.
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Coming up CD presentation with Iman Spaargaren’s Trio Undercurrent!!!!
[SUN 10 NOV 2019] Concerto (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent TrioConcerto (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent Trio
[FRI 08 NOV 2019] Splendor (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent TrioSplendor (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent Trio
[SAT 05 OCT 2019] De Roode Bioscoop (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent TrioDe Roode Bioscoop (Amsterdam) – Undercurrent Trio
“Exceptionally beautiful album” (Marie-Claire Melzer, Jazzism Magazine)
“Listen to the Coltranesque sound of Iman Spaargaren, which is really molded into his own voice, to the quirky and humorous art of improvisation by Guillermo Cerano and to the overwhelming percussion rummage of Marcos Baggiani. Here, the present and the future are safeguarded” (Rinus van der Heijden, Jazznu.com)
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Try-out concert on 5 september in De Ruimte, Amsterdam noord, 20.30 hs.
Preparing for the recording of some new material with my new quartet
Folkert Oosterbeek on piano,
Clemens van der Feen on double bass
Flin van Hemmen on drums
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Come to see the band live on 22th June at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam.
Antimufa Feat. Martin Sued on Bandoneón. CD Presentation, “Grillos”.
The band proudly opens its door to a new family member! Martín Sued, the best contemporary bandoneon player in Argentina, will join Antimufa for this new project.
29 | Antimufa + Martín Sued. Tango Brutal Festival, Netherlands, Herleen.
27 | Antimufa + Martín Sued. Riks Scenen, Norway, Oslo.
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Tour CD presentatie!!!
Lili & Marleen (Clean Feed Records)
Celano/Badenhorst/Baggiani
We will be presenting the CD coming season!!! 2018/19 (More dates to come)
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18 january, Bimhuis
19 january, Plus etage, Baarle Nassau
25 January Jazz Atelier, Austria
26 january De Pletterij, Haarlem
1 february, Molen de Ster, Utrecht
27 september, Paradox, Tilburg
6 october, Inverdan, Zaandam
“This is smart and interesting music. Modern jazz with a very open perspective.
The three artists meet for a wonderful journey through the land of music, touching on a number of musical influences through their compositions, and adding joyous improvisations welcoming other cultures and people and sounds into their idiom. The music is genre-bending, with little tunes and compositions that sound vaguely familiar, as if taken from our common unconscious and reformated into something more modern and exciting.” Stef Gijssels, january 2019 Free jazz Blog (****1/2)
The sound of the trio is almost like their presence itself, deeply human. Together, they create a unique music world in which we can trip through time amid our own emotions”. Sightsong, Japan, december 2018
“The perpetual challenge of reconciling the embraceable passages with those more abrupt and acerbic is a limitless source of fun and intrigue.”Birth is the worm, Dave Sumner, U.S.A. december 2018.
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The NEW CD of the band is out!!!!
Wild Man Conspiracy & Chris Cheek “Live at the Bimhuis” (Red Piano Records New York 2018)
The Band: Chris Cheek on tenor sax and effects, Gerard Kleijn on trompet, voice and effects, Joost Kesselaar on drums and Guillermo Celano on guitar.
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Brighton Fringe Festival (Brighton, UK) – every night from 21 to 27 may.
My Father Held A Gun
Fringe Gold Award winning show My Father Held a Gun:
“When they start telling a story, the audience is listening so quietly that you can hear a pin drop” (**** review Theaterkrant)
“A great show, a hopeful plea for peace” (Het Parool, sept 2017)
We’re performing at Brighton Fringe! Location: Sweet Venues
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Guillermo Celano’s Asturian quartet! May 2018
Horacio Garcia al contrabajo, Felix Morales a la bateria y Cesar Latorre al piano.
Miercoles 9 Rubicon, Santander, 21:00
Jueves 10 Cuevano, Pola de Siero, 21:30
Viernes 11 Jazz Filloa, A Coruña, 22:00
Sabado 12 Jazz Cafe, Gijon, 20:00
Domingo 13 La Vida Alegre, Gijon, 14:00
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C.B.G on tour may 2018
Marc Baggiani me are joining forces once again with Gorka Benitez (tenor sax) to make some original music. We will be playing together in trio setting for the fist time!!!
And a nice gig in 4tet with Guillermo Celano, Luca Tondena, and Dimitri Skidanov
Come check it out!
4 | C.B.G feat Luca Tondena (tenor sax) and Dimitri Skidanov (double bass). Big Bang Bar, Barcelona – Catalunya.
5 | C.B.G Sunset, Girona – Catalunya.
6 | C.B.G Contrabaix, Sant Cougat – Catalunya.
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Wild Man Conspiracy march 2018!!!
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thursday 15th march – WMC feat. Chris Cheek – Jazz in de Kamer – Leiden 20.00 h
Sunday june 10th – Roskam Jazz – Brussels – Belgium – 20.00 h. Roskam Jazz
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Coming up! October 2017
Photo by Antonio Porcar Cano
WILD MAN CONSPIRACY in Spain!
October 3rd – WMC Feat. Gorka Benitez – Jimmy Glass Jazzbar – Valencia – Spain – 20.00 h. – Jimmy Glass website
October 6th -WMC Feat. Gorka Benitez – Jamboree Jazzclub – Barcelona – Spain – 20.00 & 22.00 h. – Jamboree
October 3rd – WMC Feat. Gorka Benitez – Jimmy Glass Jazzbar – Valencia – Spain – 20.00 h. – Jimmy Glass website
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Yes!!!! We won!!! we got the Golden award with the music/theater play “My Father Held A Gun”!!!
Check the website: www.MyFatherHeldAGun.com
“My Father Held A Gun” winner Amsterdam Fringe Gold Award
De voorstelling My Father Held A Gun van Sahand Sahebdivani, Raphael Rodan, Guillermo Celano en Iman Spaargaren heeft de Amsterdam Fringe Gold Award 2017 gewonnen. Dat werd gisteren bekendgemaakt op de feestelijke afsluiting van het festival dat dit jaar 9000 bezoekers trok.
‘My Father Held A Gun is een actueel en belangrijk verhaal over de oorlog en het effect daarvan op de mens’, schrijft de jury van veertien professionals uit binnen- en buitenland. ‘De voorstelling heeft een simpele, pure vorm en twee zeer sterke vertellers. Opvallend is de slimme manier waarop het verhaal zich ontvouwt, waarbij de vertellers en de personages inhoudelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn.’
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Argentinean tour coming up!!!
We are presenting the new CD during the tour! Coming out on Kuai, an Argentinean label.
C.B.G
Michael Moore, Joachim Badenhorst and Natalio Sued on Reeds, Clemens van der Feen on double bass, Marcos Baggiani on drums and me.
July
30 | Celano/Baggiani duo. Kuai Records’ Festival. Roseti. Buenos Aires
28 | Celano/Andrada/Baggiani. L’ecole. Córdoba.
27 | Celano/Andrada/Baggiani. Polaroid. Villa María (Cdba.) Cristian Andrada – db bs
26 | Celano/Baggiani duo. All Free – ciclo de improvisación. Universidad de Rosario (Sta. Fe)
August
6 | Garvie/Celano/Merlo/Baggiani. Banfield Teatro Ensamble. Province of Buenos Aires
5 | Jodos/Celano/Baggiani. Virasoro Trasnoche. Cdad. de Buenos Aires.
3, 4 | Celano/Delasaleta/Baggiani. Workshop on Improvisation + concert. Mingus Café. Mar del Plata. (Buenos Aires). Martín Delasaleta – db bs
2 | C.B.G CD presentation. Centro Cultural Kirchner, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (AR) Valentín Garvie – tr, Rodrigo Dominguez – t sx, G Celano – gr, Hernán Merlo – db bs, M B – dr
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Wild Man Conspiracy
Downbeat (USA) editor’s pick January 2017 (CD “Short Stories”)
“Intriguing!…
The band is clearly centered in the present, taking the listener somewhere completely new. All the material reflects an artistic approach that emphasizes
the importance of the collective over individual contributions”…
read the complete review
Guillermo Celano – guitar/effects
Gerard Kleijn – trumpet, flugelhorn, voice, effects
Joost Kesselaar – drums
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Celano/Badenhorst/Baggiani
Joachim Badenhorst: clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax and effects
Wednesday 23 we are playing at “De Ruimte”!!! Drop by if you are around :)=
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New CD is out!!!
We are preparing for the coming tour featuring great tenor saxophonist Chris Cheek (N.Y.C.)
-28 OCT De Tor – Enschede
-29 Oct – Hothouse -Leiden
-30 oct – Concert and Masterclass in Abcoude
-03 NOV – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht
-05 NOV – Bimhuis – Amsterdam
To buy the CD go to Wild Man Conspiracy
“Short Stories” (Red piano records NY, USA) www.RedPianoRecords.com
The Band: Gerard Kleijn on trompet, voice and effects, Joost Kesselaar on drums and Guillermo Celano on guitar.
www.WildManConspiracy.com
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july 2016
Special concert:
Special guest Michael Moore.
C.B.G: Joachim Badenhorst on sax, clarinet and bass clarinet; Guillermo Celano on guitar, Clemens van der Feen on double bass and Marcos Baggiani on drums.
July 1st at 20:30 in Bimhuis, Amsterdam
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Hi guys,
I’m happy to announce that the new CD of the band is out by Trytone records (March 2016).
“Les indignés”
Ellery Eskelin on tenor, Guillermo Celano on guitar, Clemens van der Feen on bass and Marcos Baggianion drums.
Listen to it:
Hereby some recent reviews of the album:
“Les Indignés is so beautifully complex that it could be described in language a sommelier may use. There are moments of wistfulness that sit apart from grooves and occasional free blowing and shredding guitar. Five of the eight compositions are quite lengthy and thus open themselves to the patient development of ideas and alternative directions. Some of the ironies that are baked into the composition titles, play themselves out in the paradoxical paths the music follows. As that sommelier might say, the music breathes with life”.
KARL ACKERMANN, may 2016, All About Jazz.
“A CD that Largely meets all the expectations of a jubilee CD and certainly will be one of the most interesting jazz releases of 2016. The music never loses its heat , impressionistic collective passages are followed by powerful solos”.
Cyriel Pluimakers, Jazzenzo, march 2016.
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Check this new and fun project!!!
Pijama and the Patterson
Thanks Claudio and Olga for the video
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C.B.G.
I’m happy to announce that my new CD
“Erasing Borders” is out by Trytone records.
Joachim Badenhorst on tenor sax and clarinet, me on guitar, Clemens van der Feen on double bass and Marcos Baggiani on drums
Reviews about the album
“Celano spices his cohesive compositions with stylistic quirks, creating intensely melodic and refreshing frameworks for improvisation – a rare gift…”Amsterdamse Chacarera” mixes chacarera with Dutch new jazz – Argentine melancholy and nuevo tango make for a surging apotheosis of dance”…
The Wire. Andy Hamilton, United Kingdom, july 2015
“A volcano that erupts over and over again, mother nature constantly exploding into new forms. Replace the volcano with music and you get the same effect, at least if you listen to CBG: the Celano / Baggiani Group. Erasing Borders is an amalgam of different styles, which are connected by the far-reaching improvisational art of the four performers. Without exaggeration, you may call the C.B.G. a “star line-up”.
JazzNu, Rinus van der Heijden, Nederland, juny 2015
“Erasing Borders is C.B.G.’s fifth album, and testament to their maturity as a unit”….
Dalston Sound, Tim Owen, United Kingdom, july 2015.
“Impetuous jazz with an statement… Imaginative, with compositions influenced by improv and displaying the individual qualities of the quartet”.
Jazzenzo, Nederlands, june 2015 by Erno Elsinga.
“This is both Argentine and Amsterdam music, that much is clear… “Erasing Borders” is a varied album, with heavy grooves, rough tenor saxophone solos and electronic pedals violence alongside graceful, playful and funny moments”.
Herman te Loo, JazzFlits, Nederland, June 2015.
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Finally!! The first CD of the band is out:
Antimufa “New ways of Argentinean music” (Patagonia Records 2015)
Distributed by Xango Music
Antimufa: Natalio Sued on Clarinet, sax and voice; G.Celano on guitar; Adan Mizrahi on double bass and Marcos Baggiani on drums and percussion.
www.Antimufa.com
Hereby some reviews of the album:
“An intelligent album, highly recommended”
All About Jazz, Alberto Bazzurro, april 2015.
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“Very tasteful, subtle, danceable and joyfully up”
“1 Track only”, Vera Vingerhoeds, 15 april, 2015.
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“The title of the CD New Ways of Argentinean Music is fully realized“
JazzNu, Rinus van der Heijden, April 2015
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Lily’s déjà vu’s New album is out!!!
“Live in PaRaDoX”
You can only get it Chorcho Records, or ask me and i’ll send it to you. It is our first Digital album, no CD, just a beautiful postcard with a download code.
Lily’s déjà vu: Ingrid Laubrock on tenor sax, Guillermo Celano on guitar, Jasper Stadhouders on bass and Marcos Baggiani on Drums
www.LilysDejaVu.com
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Dear Friends,
We wanted to share with you Lily’s déjà vu’s upcoming tour in Europe. We hope to see you at the concerts! All the Best
January 2015
www.LilysDejaVu.com
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Hi guys,
I want to invite you to some of the concerts that are coming up in november with the C.B.G:
Joachim Badenhorst on tenor sax, clarinet and bass clarinet, Guillermo Celano on guitar, Clemens van der Feen on double bass and Marcos Baggiani on drums. If you are in the area please drop by for some music and some beer (or whisky).
2 november DJS, Dordrecht
15 november at 15.30hrs. London Jazz Festival!!!
30 november at 17.00hs. l’Archiduc, Brussel
30 november at 21.30 hs. ‘t Stuk, Leuven
Live at Bimhuis
“From almost unfathomable orgy to peaceful interaction…”
Jan Jasper Tamboer – Het Parool – 12/7/13
Live at Lantaren Venster
“The best jazz composers create the most beautiful music on the spot.”
Tim Sprangers – de Volkskrant – 12 july 2013
www.cbg-music.com
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NEWS
A new trio has been born and the CD is out!!!!!
If you are searching for something else and would like to move to another planet join us:
“Knots” (Red piano records NY, USA) www.RedPianoRecords.com
The Band: Gerard Kleijn on trompet, voice and effects, Joost Kesselaar on drums and Guillermo Celano on guitar.
www.WildManConspiracy.com
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Guillermo Celano 
