Modern Talking In The Middle Of Nowhere CD

ANTONIO'S BIO:Antonio Arnedo is one of the best Jazz musicians these days in Colombia. He can easily move from playing sax with the National Symphonic Orchestra as soloist to teach at one of the most prestigious local Universities, Universidad Javeriana de Bogota, all with the same talent that he shows while playing with his Jazz band. About his first CD as a leader, "Travesia", recorded in 1996 he told writer Hugo Chaparro "To me, in this record there's no fusion but mixture. And this mixture obtains a conjunction, a reunion of elements, conceived by the right musicians. There's a guitar player who plays Jazz but can also relate to other elements and become a "cumbianbero", someone who can play a "Pasillo", who knows all the impulses behind other rhythms and can swing to them". Arnedo recorded a few months ago his 4th CD in 4 years, closing with it a stage in his career on which he went back to his musical beginnings, to those tunes and rhythms that characterize Colombian Folk music and that have become an inherent part of his style. With his music, Arnedo achieves something unique, making us, colombians, feel proud of a country mostly known by intolerence and violence. This quiet, gentle and talented man lets us connect with a different idea of nation, the dream of a Colombia in Peace, enjoying its natural diversity and its human richness. Antonio initially studied Geology at Universidad Nacional but after a few semesters, music ended up by seducing him. He worked with Francisco Zumaque in a revolutionary project called Macumbia on which Zumaque attempted a fusion between Jazz, Classical music and the Black folk music of the caribbean coast of Colombia. ...