Eliseo Parra

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Marianita 05:00 Tools
Porque Non Hey De Cantare 02:24 Tools
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Las Quejas de Jimena 03:09 Tools
El Silenci D' Estimar 06:20 Tools
Va Delante De Su Madre 02:16 Tools
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Nana del Hierro 00:00 Tools
La Zorra 03:02 Tools
Jotas de "el chato" 03:56 Tools
El Brillante 05:26 Tools
Cantes De Columpio 04:19 Tools
La Rama 05:24 Tools
Al Sur 05:19 Tools
Yo Me Quería Casar 04:33 Tools
Que me lo llevan 05:32 Tools
Cant Desplosar Ametlles 01:46 Tools
Río Verde 06:48 Tools
Ama Zeuriak 03:39 Tools
Van por el aire 06:47 Tools
La Juliana 05:04 Tools
El silenci d'estimar 06:47 Tools
De Esquileo 03:36 Tools
A la Zarzamora (Ronda por Bulerías) 04:49 Tools
El Payo 03:41 Tools
Suite del Rebollar 05:04 Tools
Noche tranquila y serena 07:30 Tools
El son del repique 06:59 Tools
Por el azul de este mar 07:15 Tools
De Ayer Mañana 05:17 Tools
Seguidilla de Membrilla 05:27 Tools
De Bodas 05:39 Tools
Una palomita blanca 04:37 Tools
De trilla 07:15 Tools
Mix Jotax 04:19 Tools
Por Que Non Hei Cantare 04:58 Tools
Fulgida Luna 04:07 Tools
Noche Triste 05:09 Tools
Número 9 04:37 Tools
Rumba al Cairo 03:55 Tools
Bella y pagana 05:09 Tools
Folías 04:51 Tools
Jotalegrías (Jota por Alegrías) 03:48 Tools
El Pino 04:51 Tools
Ruiloba 08:52 Tools
La reina jerifa mora 05:16 Tools
Hero y Leandro 06:38 Tools
De La Dulce Mi Enemiga - Canciûn 05:09 Tools
Baile Sanabres 05:36 Tools
Romance Del MarquÈs De Mantua 03:17 Tools
Hagan el Favor, Señores (Picayos) 02:01 Tools
El Villano - Danza 02:55 Tools
Blancaflor y Filomena 04:51 Tools
Canto da pedra (galicia) 08:52 Tools
Eros Con Bastón (Rondeña) 03:48 Tools
Romance De Abindarr·ez Y Jarifa 02:56 Tools
Romance De Los Valdovinos 04:39 Tools
Rumba al Cairo (Reprise) 05:24 Tools
Romance De Durandarte 02:58 Tools
Romance De "Pase·base El Rey Moro" 06:25 Tools
La flor y la coliflor 03:34 Tools
Tonada de Sa Son 02:40 Tools
La muerte del duque de Gandia 04:23 Tools
Llarón (Jota) 02:46 Tools
No Le Dés Más Vueltas (Fandango) 03:38 Tools
La infanta parida 04:41 Tools
El Rey Fernando en Francia 03:41 Tools
Jota segoviana (castilla-león) 05:09 Tools
La llave de la alegria 04:49 Tools
Melisenda Insomne 05:43 Tools
Romerico Florido - Folìa 02:26 Tools
La flor del agua (asturias) 05:09 Tools
Romance De Los Calaynos 05:34 Tools
La Ciguena 03:54 Tools
Romance De Cardenio En Sierra Morena 03:48 Tools
Fúlgida Luna 01:45 Tools
Llegу Con Tres Heridas 03:16 Tools
Atzo tun,tun (navarra) 01:45 Tools
La muerte del prÌncipe don Juan 02:01 Tools
Sa ximbomba (baleares) 01:45 Tools
Eres Zorro 06:30 Tools
Aguinaldo (murcia) 02:41 Tools
Señor Platero 01:45 Tools
Isabel de Liar 02:01 Tools
Marzas (Canto de Marzas) 02:46 Tools
Albadas (Grávalos) 02:46 Tools
El rabel (cantabria) 05:43 Tools
Bolero cantado (valencia) 03:48 Tools
Polka de Fuerteventura (canarias) 02:41 Tools
El Galandún (Castilla-León) 03:48 Tools
Pandeirada de igrexa feita (galicia) 03:48 Tools
La Cigüeña 03:48 Tools
L´Havanera 03:46 Tools
03-Arín,arín (pais vasco) 03:16 Tools
El Juego 03:48 Tools
Las marzas (cantabria) 03:48 Tools
La Rama (Extremadura) 02:01 Tools
El galán carretero (la rioja) 03:48 Tools
Padre nuestro (extremadura) 03:48 Tools
El raptor pordiosero (cataluña) 03:48 Tools
La juliana (asturias) 03:48 Tools
La berlina del escobonal (canarias) 03:48 Tools
Nostalgia 02:01 Tools
Popourri navarro (navarra) 03:48 Tools
El cerco de Santa FÈ + El mono que reta a Valencia 02:01 Tools
Ojos De Miel 02:01 Tools
Ronda De Estremera (Madrid) 03:48 Tools
Seguidillas manchegas (castilla-la mancha) 02:01 Tools
Jota del raiguero (murcia) 02:01 Tools
Na catalineta (baleares) 02:01 Tools
Jotas de Ronda (Canales de la Sierra) 03:38 Tools
Landarico 04:36 Tools
Dulce Esperanza Mia - Canciûn 02:00 Tools
Los Estrechos (Villavelayo) 02:40 Tools
Segudillas Torrás (Castilla-La Mancha) 02:01 Tools
El tio 02:01 Tools
Coplas de visperas (aragón) 02:46 Tools
Romance del prisionero (la rioja) 02:00 Tools
Anda jaleo (andalucia) 02:00 Tools
Romance De "Vuelve, Vuelve Barquilla 03:51 Tools
Dices Que Te Vas 02:01 Tools
Las profecias (madrid) 02:00 Tools
El Cielo Para Ti 02:01 Tools
Amorosa (pais vasco) 02:46 Tools
Romerico Florido ( FolÌa) 02:00 Tools
Reina Gitana 02:00 Tools
Romance de el Quintado ( andalucia) 02:46 Tools
Remerino (Meceor) 02:40 Tools
Cuando Voy por Alta Mar (Ventrosa) 04:05 Tools
Las Carboneritas (Canales de la Sierra) 06:30 Tools
6:30 A.M. 02:46 Tools
Trébole (Charro) 02:40 Tools
La Cofradia Del Herva 04:43 Tools
Val De Conters (Pais Valenciano) 02:46 Tools
Isabel de Liar + Juan Lorenzo (vocal) 04:36 Tools
Dulce Esperanza Mia (CanciÛn) 02:46 Tools
Danza Del Paisaje 06:30 Tools
La Calle Del Sol 02:46 Tools
La Venganza de Mudarra 02:46 Tools
El Mozo Arriero y los Siete ladrones (Villavelayo) 05:32 Tools
El Carbonero (Viniegra de Arriba) 05:32 Tools
Habanera 03:38 Tools
Una Hoja Perdida 02:46 Tools
Guajiras de Turre (Décimas) 02:40 Tools
Era Meia Noite (Romance) 02:40 Tools
Baile sanabrés 06:30 Tools
Jota de Siega (Anguiano) 06:30 Tools
Bernal francés (Aguilar del Río Alhama) 05:32 Tools
Isabel De Liar + Juan Lorenzo - Instrumental 05:32 Tools
El Aguador (Neila) 04:05 Tools
Pavana De Niños Y Pajaros 02:40 Tools
Danza De Lo Gigantes 02:40 Tools
Maria (cataluña) 03:38 Tools
Isabel De Liar + Juan Lorenzo - Vocal 03:56 Tools
Albada I 03:38 Tools
Bonus Track 03:38 Tools
Jotas de "Ecl Chato" 03:38 Tools
El reinau 03:38 Tools
Pasacalle 03:38 Tools
Galandun 05:32 Tools
Nana de Hierro 05:32 Tools
Isabel de Liar + Juan Lorenzo (instrumental) 05:32 Tools
L'Havanera 05:32 Tools
La Charramandina (Murillo de Río Leza) 05:32 Tools
Bourree De Los Americanos 05:32 Tools
El mayo 02:40 Tools
Nana (Alfaro) 02:40 Tools
El Prisionero + El Retrato de la Dama (Canales de la Sierra) 02:40 Tools
Danza Del Guerrerro 02:40 Tools
Ya Vienen los Oliveros (Cornago) 02:40 Tools
Punta y seguida 02:40 Tools
Jotas De 'El Chato' 03:56 Tools
El fuego 06:07 Tools
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Eliseo Parra is one Spain's leading performers and researchers of folk music. He has traveled to small villages to rediscover old songs, musical instruments and learned how to play some instruments in the traditional style. He reconstructs folk music by adding modern elements. His background may seem surprising to some. He began as a rock musician and afterwards became interested in jazz and Caribbean rhythms. Eventually, he ended up rediscovering Spanish folk music. Parra was born in Sardón de Duero (Valladolid). He began his musical career in Barcelona, in the late 1960s, as a drummer in several rock groups. In 1971, Eliseo Parra recorded his first LP with the group Mi Generación; an album that featured his own songs. During six years Parra combined his work with the rock band with the solfeggio and harmony studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona. Around 1976 he took part in the then burgeoning Barcelona jazz scene, also known as Movida Zeleste, by joining Catalan jazz Blay tritono and later the Rondalla de la Costa. In 1979, Parra recorded with Mallorcan diva María del Mar Bonet on Saba de Terrer, an album dedicated to traditional Mallorcan tunes. He collaborated with Bonet yet again on her album Gavines and Dragons. That same year he moved to Valencia to join the group AL Tall with which he had already collaborated previously on the albums Cancos de Vi and Taberna. As a new band member, he participated as performer, composer and arranger on the LP La Batalle d'Almansa. In 1980, Eliseo Parra returned to Barcelona to study harmony at the recently created School of Jazz and Latin Percussion (Aula de Jazz y Percusión Latin) with the unforgettable Pedrito Díaz. Salsa music became huge in Barcelona and Parra, a singer- percussionist, joined several bands, including Sardineta, which had some international success, and other well known Barcelona based bands such as La Sonora Catalana, La Platería, and La Negra. Meanwhile, he collaborated as an instrumentalist and composer in the recordings and live performances of Marina Rossell, Ovidi Montllor, Pilfers and Gato Pérez among others. In 1983, after a tour of the United States and Canada, Eliseo Parra moved to Madrid to create a musical project based in traditional roots with a group called Mosaic. At that time, Madrid began to replace Barcelona as Spain's most exciting musical melting pot, attracting musicians from other parts of Spain, as well as from Cuba, Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, and many other countries. The first album by Eliseo Parra's new band came out in 1984. It was a tribute to the great musician and folklorist from Segovia, Agapito Marazuela, with music from his Songbook. A second album came out in 1985 with original music inspired by Spanish traditional music. The group toured throughout Spain, France, Italy and Denmark until 1987. From 1988 through 1991, Parra performed solo in Spain, Italy and Morocco. He participated in two episodes tof the Spanish TV series "La Copla" and he worked as music advisor for a TVE (Spanish National TV). During that time he worked as a producer, arranger and composer for albums by La Gaira, Elisa Serna, Angel Carril and María Salgado. In 1992, Parra recorded his first solo album, Al-Bedrio. The album came out in 1993 and Eliseo Parra formed a band that toured Spain, Switzerland and Israel. For Christmas of 1994, a new album, Arraigo, was released, with 17 of the most beautiful songs from the Salamanca tradition performed with electronic equipment almost in its entirety. During 1995, Parra taught song and traditional percussion. He also composed and recorded the music for the suite Romance for traditional instruments and orchestra, which was performed for the first time by the National Ballet of Spain together with the Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in September of 1996. At the same time, and together with Susana Weich-Shahak and José Manuel Fraile Gil, Parra carried out a series of concerts and conferences about Sephardic musi. A double CD, Arboleras, came out with these pieces. In December of 1996, Eliseo Parra represented Spain at the Forum of Mediterranean Culture that took place in Jerusalem. In 1997, Parra participated as arranger and musician on the album of Sudanese singer Rasha. Tat same year he participated in a landmark album called Tribus Hispanas (Hispanic Tribes) that featured some of Spain's finest world music artists: Javier Paxariño, Elisea Serna, Jaime Muñoz, Carlos Beceiro, etc. During 1998, Parra began to collaborate assiduously with multi-instrumentalists Javier Paxariño and Eduardo Laguillo. Eliseo Parra is still very popular as a producer and performer. He produced the album Vizcayatik Bizkaiara by Oskorri, the most famous Basque folk band. He also collaborated on the album Lorios by Alboka, featuring Hungarian singer Marta Sebestyén. In March of 2002, BOA Records released Eliseo Parra's album Viva quien sabe querer. That same year, Parra composed the soundtrack for Peribañez y el Comendador de Ocaña, staged by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro (National classical theater Company), where he participated as an actor, musician and singer throughout 2002. Discography: Al-Bedrio (Radio Nacional de España. 1992) Arraigo (Centro de Cultura Tradicional. Dip. De Salamanca. 1993) La boda estorbada (Música Sin Fin. 1995) Arboleras (SAGA. 1996) Tribus Hispanas (Música Sin Fin. 1998) Viva quien sabe querer (Boa Music. 2002) De Ayer Mañana (World Village – Harmonia Mundi. 2005). Diez (Producciones Mirmidón - 2009) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.