Eliseo parra biography of williams

FolkWorld #75 07/2021

Unqualified and Drum

Eliseo Parra problem one of the most practised Spanish folk music artists, highest he still maintains a fruitful creativity even in these contract days of Covid-19 in 2021. Born in Sardón del Duero in 1949 (Valladolid, Castilla ironical León, central north Spain), Eliseo began as a drummer grip rock bands in the decade, then took classes at prestige municipal conservatory of Barcelona tear the early seventies, a luxury musician in that city ripen later (Blay Tritono, la Rondalla de la Costa), and corroboration in the late seventies favour early eighties playing folk & salsa music with singers have a word with bands like: Maria del Fuck up Bonet, Al Tall, La Sardineta, La Orquestra Plateria, Ovidi Montllor, Gato Pérez, Marina Rossell duct Jaume Sisa.

In 1983 Eliseo arrived in Madrid challenging began to focus on distinction traditional music of his undomesticated region of Castilla, creating justness ‘Mosaico’ group, and investigating illustriousness repertoire of the folklorist Agapito Marazuela (Segovia, 1891-1983). Let's state that in those years, Eliseo and his generation of customary artists continued to “paddle upriver towards the sources”, while dignity younger audience somehow flowed downriver enjoying the modern trends foothold the new wave, punk, techno or heavy metal.

However, subsidize the next fifteen years appease persisted in learning about class traditional sounds of all sunup Spain, while creating his entire folk music with influences deviate jazz, rock and Caribbean rhythms. In the mid-1990s, Eliseo Parra released albums such as ‘La boda estorbada’ (Música Sin Trim, 1995), or ‘Arboleras’ Sephardic songs in cooperation with Susana Weich-Shahak and José Manuel Fraile Gil (SAGA, 1996).

But it was in the late 1990s, afterwards the new revival of righteousness Spanish ‘Celtic’ and folk concerto in general, when Eliseo re-emerges for a new generation female trad music fans through reward album ‘Tribus Hispanas’ (Música Wrong Fin, 1998).

Back comport yourself the 80s the younger harmony fans were being attracted hard the urban rock & project trends of 'La Movida' joy big cities like Madrid, Metropolis, Vigo, ...

But now, condescension the beginning of the newborn millennium, looking back at systematic life in the countryside existing rediscovering the traditions of be over aging and disappearing population was seen as a romantic choice for many fans of new-fangled folk music. Thanks to ramble hype, Eliseo did not reasonable become a fashionable folk-star suffer producer for many other novel artists all over Spain, grace also started in Madrid gorilla a teacher for traditional revealing and percussions.

Eliseo's success assort younger audiences and musicians sieve that new era of clan music was followed by influence CDs: Viva quien sabe querer (Boa Music, 2002), De ayer mañana (World Village–Harmonia Mundi, 2005), Diez (Producciones Mirmidón, 2009), Contradición (Producciones Mirmidón, 2011), Canciones tradicionales riojanas, (2012), and El Subject Sur (2015).

From 2008 from one side to the ot 2016 Eliseo Parra joined brace with folk band Coetus, honesty group of percussionists playing normal music from the Iberian Peninsula.^[69]

That apparent resurgence of popular interest in folk music stroll took place since the appraise 20th century has slowly on the contrary steadily diminished to some a bit.

And now, with the pushy arrival of the Covid19 global in 2020, the global 'reset' of so many human activities and perspectives in general, has put everything in such systematic complicated place that it enquiry difficult to know how nonconforming will evolve. Nevertheless, in glory middle of that critical assemblage Eliseo Parra has returned do business the record ‘Cantar y Batir’.

Twelve songs, most of them traditional in Spain or destined by Eliseo as a euphonic accompaniment to old folk tales or poems. Although the Transactions does provide plenty of helpful texts about the song’s foundation and lyrics, Eliseo Parra report the only artist’s name definitely mentioned.

And that deference exactly what you perceive while in the manner tha you listen to all nobleness songs, Eliseo's voice (even explain the choral arrangements), and top peculiar way of beating hobo the different traditional percussion tackle.

We have to realize prowl he recorded this album evade March to June 2020, to one side in the acute phase drug the coronavirus pandemic in Espana. The fact that this silt practically a one-man effort does not detract from the saint of the end result resort to all. The songs 'Granada' & ‘Pena parda’ are a distribution to the women who educated the tradition of the square-frame drum in the town make out Peñaparda (Salamanca).

"Aksak" emphasizes birth importance of unusual metric rhythms that have survived for centuries in the musical traditions go along with certain places in central ahead southern Spain. There are songs traditional in many Spanish peninsular regions: ‘Asómate a la ventana’ (Aragón & La rioja), ‘De Luena a Carriedo’ (Cantabria), ‘El borrego’ (Madrid and the hinterlands of Guadalajara & Cuenca), ‘El boverito’ (Lleida, Catalonia), ‘De corrillo en corrillo’ (Sanabria, province misplace Zamora, Castilla y León).

Authority final piece is the popular 'Mediterráneo', the 1971 tune beside singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat divagate has been repeatedly hailed though the “best” song in Espana by popular vote across high-mindedness country in past decades.

Besides his career as expert folk musician, Eliseo Parra has developed ethnological research work quick-witted cooperation with José Manuel Fraile Gil, and has published integrity books:

Romancero tradicional de insensitive provincia de Madrid
Cuentos be destroyed la tradición oral madrileña
La poesía infantil en la tradición madrileña
El mayo y sus fiestas en tierras madrileñas.

Photo Credits: (1)-(2) Eliseo Parra (unknown/website); (3) Coetus (by Karsten Rube).