Eduardo Niebla

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Eduardo Niebla (born July 29, 1955 in Tangier ) is a Spanish guitarist, arranger and composer.

Niebla was born in Tangier as the seventh of eleven children from Andalusia parents, almost all of whom embarked on a musical or artistic career. He played the accordion and guitar as a child and founded his first band at the age of eleven, the folk-pop group Los Helios , with which he performed in schools. In addition, he and his sister Pilar had a program on the radio in which they recited poems accompanied by the flamenco guitar. With his brothers Felix (bass) and Salvador (drums), he founded the Guevara Group in 1966 , which performed at concerts and folk festivals in Catalonia.

In 1968 he became a member of the band Metafora , with whom he toured all over Spain. In 1973 he founded the symphonic rock group Atlia , with whom he produced three successful albums. In 1975 he took part in several exhibitions by the conceptual artist Jaume Xifra in France and composed music for the Arab Theater in Paris. In Spain he won several awards and was recognized as one of the best guitarists in the country.

In 1976 Niebla worked with the jazz guitarist Carlos González in Seville; the duo composed pieces inspired by Wes Montgomery . Two years later he went to London as a studio musician. As a member of the Mother Gong group , he recorded an album in 1980. In the same year he appeared at Ronnie Scott's Club with free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill , with whom he also worked occasionally later.

In the early 1980s, Niebla composed music for several feature and documentary films (including Active Birth , RD Laing , Pablo Neruda , El Gato y la Paloma ). He appeared as a guest with authors such as Fran Lanesman , John Cooper Clarke and Mike Horovitz and in 1981 formed a new band of his own. These included his brother Salvador (drums), Judy Garratt (violin), Dennis Milner (double bass), Mark Lorraine (horn), Lol Coxhill (saxophone), Didier Malerve (flute), Lyn Dobson (saxophone) John Mackenzie (electric bass) , Elise Lorraine (vocals) and Zandy Gordon (keyboards). The following year he worked as a jazz musician with his own quartet.

In 1983 he started the Europe-wide successful Eduardo Niebla Guitar Duo project , in which musicians such as Bob Grant , Emilio Maya , Antonio Forcione , Pepe Justicia , Michele Cea , Dominic Grant , Victor Unukovsky , Mark Johns and Giorgio Serci were his partners. There have been appearances at Wigmore Hall , Bloomsbury Theaters and Richmond Theaters in London and the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. The duo toured Europe and performed at the San Isidro Fiesta in Madrid in the Rockodromo Arena in front of 35,000 spectators.

In 1990 Niebla toured South Africa as a soloist. As new musical partners he met the Russian jazz guitarist Viktor Unikovsky and the Palestinian oud player Adel Salameh . CD recordings were made with both of them, and he toured Great Britain with Salameh in 1996. In 1997 recordings were made with the singer and percussionist Paban Dasbaul , the Indian flautist Deepak Ram and the sitar virtuoso Purvayan Chatterjee . A new tour of the Eduardo Niebla Guitar Duo took place in 1998, followed by The Eduardo Niebla Experience with the tabla player Sanjay Jhalla and the guitar accompanist Giorgio Serci .

Discography

  • 2010: Eduardo Niebla: My Gypsy Waltz
  • 2004: Eduardo Niebla: Lights from the Inner Side
  • 2003: Eduardo Niebla: Natural
  • 1999: Eduardo Niebla: The Gift
  • 1996: Eduardo Niebl & Adel Salameh: Mediterraneo
  • 1996: Eduardo Niebla: Magic Nights
  • 1996: Eduardo Niebla: I Can Fly Now
  • 1993: Eduardo Niebla: Breathing
  • 1992: Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione : Poema
  • 1992: Eduardo Niebla: The Sailors
  • 1992: Eduardo Niebla: Spanish Projects
  • 1991: Eduardo Niebla: Work for Three
  • 1990: Eduardo Niebla & Alan Zeta : Sequence for Guitar
  • 1988: Eduardo Niebla & A. Foulcer: The Alexander Project
  • 1987: Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione : Music Without Frontiers
  • 1987: Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione: Celebration
  • 1985: Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione: Eurotour
  • 1984: Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione: Light and Shade
  • 1981: Eduardo Niebla: Towards the Sun
  • 1978: Mother Gong: Fairy Tales
  • 1976: Atila: Reviure
  • 1975: Atila: Intention
  • 1974: Atila: The Beginning of the End

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SURNAME Niebla, Eduardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tangier