Photo: Gracia Gata
The Seville musician and composer Chemón Cortés presents in Tres Culturas, and in quartet format, a show that maintains the line of mixing Arab music with jazz, but extending borders to other musical styles. From flamenco to 80's pop, including blues. Chemón Cortés Quartet is the personal project of this musician, with a repertoire made up exclusively of his own compositions that unite worlds that are at first sight antagonistic, but which through musical magic find links of union, creating a totally compact whole. A musical adventure that began in 2007 with the release of the album The Duck Pile and that has its most recent exponent in the work entitled Back Home.
José María Cortés Aguilar, Chemón, plays three instruments: the guitar, the saxophone and the ud (Arabic oud). With the guitar and saxophone he has played with numerous groups on the Sevillian jazz scene. In 2001 he began to play the ud, deepening his study of Arabic and Andalusian music. In 2006 he met the French-Algerian singer Hayet Ayad, who asked him to accompany her on the ud. Since then they have performed as a duo in numerous concerts both in Spain and in Europe, notably at the Reales Alcázares in Seville, the Tropen in Amsterdam, the Doelen in Rotterdam, the Wereldculturencentrum in Antwerp, the Bijloke in Ghent, and the Strasbourg-Méditerranée festival in Strasbourg, and they have recorded a live album.
He currently plays as a quartet, formed, in addition to himself, by the saxophonist Nacho Botonero, the double bass player Javier Delgado, and the percussionist David Ruiz.
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This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa (Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification).
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