Photo by Miguel Cornejo
Pablo Tarantino presents in this new project his first album as a composer.
In “Charnia” merges the musical and human background of a life half spent in Argentina, half in Europe, where he was formed as a musician and he studied modern music, performance and composition in Barcelona, London, Berlin and Leipzig, where he currently lives.
In this city he has found the musicians that form his quartet. The traditional set up is the classical combo of drums, piano, double-bass and sax, and its components are young and talented, innovative at the same time than musically mature performers.
“Charnia” is believed to have been one of the first organism that lived on Earth, and is his first album as a composer, Pablo Tarantino pays his own tribute to the earth and life on it.
All the compositions are original, with the exception of the traditional folklore song from the north of Argentina, the arrangement of a vidala.
His music is organic, the transformation into sound of multi-layered images and textures, but keeping always in the background the simplicity in the form of the songs that have conformed his identity as a musician, from tango to pop, folklore or jazz. The themes of “Charnia” are those of life itself: love, uproot, the beginning of life, the end of it, the social rituals, the despair, or the hope. Text by Teresa Rodríguez
Pablo Tarantino: Drums, Compositions and Arrangements
Roman Polatzky: Alto Saxophone
Emmanuel Walter: Piano
Max Müller: Double Bass