Café del Mundo

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Café del Mundo
Alexander Kilian, Jan Pascal (from left to right, 2015)
Alexander Kilian, Jan Pascal (from left to right, 2015)
General information
founding 2007
Website www.cafedelmundo.de
Current occupation
guitar
 Jan Pascal
guitar
 Alexander Kilian

Café del Mundo is the music formation of the two guitarists Jan Pascal and Alexander Kilian.

biography

Jan Pascal (born April 22, 1975 in Würzburg ) has been composing his own guitar pieces since his youth. After his mother's early accidental death, he attended the Benedictine boarding school in Münsterschwarzach . There he received piano lessons from Domenikus Trautner, later classical guitar from Bernhard Weber in Heidelberg and above all flamenco guitar from Rafael Cortes and Mariano Martín. In 1996 he founded his own recording studio and in 2002 the indie label visioninmusic.

Alexander Kilian (born February 27, 1987 in Bad Mergentheim ) won a special prize at the international Openstrings Guitar Festival in Osnabrück at the age of 15, with the Shin he was national winner of the Creole World Music Competition in 2009. He studied jazz guitar with a diploma. He completed masterclasses with Rafael Cortes, Zoltan Tokos and Kalman Irmai, among others.

In 2007 they met during the Buchen Guitar Days at a flamenco guitar workshop. In 2013 they played in the opening act of Lang Lang at the Jazz Open Stuttgart and signed with the Munich label GLM Music . Musical guests at concerts and studio albums were u. a. 2012–2013 Murat Coskun, 2012–2014 Angela Frontera and 2013–2014 Joo Kraus , Mulo Francel and Didi Lowka. In 2017 they performed with Krzysztof Kobyliński .

In 2018 Café del Mundo released the album "Beloved Europe". In addition to original compositions, there are arrangements by foreign composers for the first time, including an arrangement by Franz Schubert's Erlkönig for two flamenco guitars. The flamenco singer Rosario la Tremendita took over the voice of the Erlkönig in a duet with the bass-baritone Henryk Böhm.

In 2019, after a UK club tour, the album "Famous Tracks" ( GLM Music ) was released, which was recorded and produced in Abbey Road Studios , London.

Café del Mundo has a lively international concert activity: Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , London (England) | Rencontre Calenzana Music Festival, Corsica (France) | Silencio Club ( David Lynch ), Paris (France) | Theatro del Palacio Alhambra, Granada (Spain) | Jazzovia, Gliwice (Poland) | Slask Days (Poland) | Guitar Festival, Pescara (Italy) | Ceska Lipa (Czech Republic) | Rheingau Music Festival | Moselle Music Festival | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival | Altmark Festival

Discography

  • 2019: Famous Tracks ( GLM Music )
  • 2018: Beloved Europe ( GLM Music )
  • 2015: Dance of Joy ( GLM Music )
  • 2015: In Passion - live at Theaterhaus Stuttgart ( GLM Music )
  • 2014: La Perla ( GLM Music )
  • 2012: Café del Mundo (Visioninmusic)
  • 2008: Nuevo Cuarteto (Visioninmusic)

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