Grupo Sal

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Grupo Sal is a Latin American music group that has been drawing attention to explosive development and environmental issues musically and artistically since it was founded in 1982. Through its programs, Grupo Sal takes a position for a just world, a dignified coexistence and calls for an encounter of peoples and solidarity.

Band history

In 1982 Grupo Sal was founded by Roberto Deimel from Chile (vocals, percussion, cuatro, guitar) and Fernando Dias Costa from Portugal (vocals, percussion). In addition to founding member Fernando Dias Costa, the band consisted of five other musicians in 2013: Aníbal Civilotti from Argentina (vocals, percussion, guitar), Omar Plasencia from Venezuela (vibraphone, percussion, guitar, vocals), Harald Schneider from Germany (soprano and tenor saxophone , Clarinet), Andreas Franke from Germany (soprano and tenor saxophone, clarinet) and Kurt Holzkämper from Germany (double bass).

In 2012 Grupo Sal celebrated its 30th anniversary.

music

Inspired by the Indian, African and European roots up to the latest developments in multicultural scenes in the pulsating metropolises, Grupo Sal presents an independent interpretation of Latin American music.

In their concerts they deal with Latin American topics such as the destruction of the rainforest. The songs tell of a simple life, of poverty and need, but also of love, hope and of freeing yourself from oppression and despair on your own.

Cooperations

In close cooperation with Pan y Arte , Grupo Sal expresses its attachment to Nicaragua. Among other things, they support the “ Casa de los tres mundos ” (Eng .: House of Three Worlds) cultural project .

Over the years the tradition of working together with committed personalities, writers and actors and holding concert readings developed over the years: For example, programs such as "500 Years of Solitude" were created with Dietmar Schönherr .

Since 1993 Grupo Sal has had a close friendship and cooperation with the liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal . Since then they have been giving concert readings together. The tour “Born from Stars” in autumn 2012 was dedicated to his newly published poetic oeuvre.

There were other successful tours with the writer Gioconda Belli from Nicaragua and the late theologian Dorothee Sölle and with Fulbert Steffensky .

Grupo Sal accompanied Bishop Álvaro Ramazzini (Guatemala) on his travels to Germany with performances on the subject of "Forgotten Peace - Human Rights in Guatemala" and presented the program "Concert for Amazonia" with Abadio Green from the Tule people , Thomas Brose from the Climate Alliance and the Iranian draftsman Mehrdad Zaeri.

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Programs

1987 "Nicaragua mi Amor" A musical and literary journey with Dietmar Schönherr
1991-1992 “500 years of solitude. Critical collage on the conquest of Latin America ”with Dietmar Schönherr
1993 “But hope remains” with Ernesto Cardenal and Dietmar Schönherr
1993-1994 “Caras - Faces” concert program
1993-1995 "Encuentros - magic against the cold" concert program
1994-1995 “But hope remains” with Ernesto Cardenal and Klaus Götte
1995-1996 “Erotic Poems and Waslala” with Gioconda Belli
1996-1997 "Of dreams and utopias" collage
1996-1997 “The cosmic song” with Ernesto Cardenal and Klaus Götte
1997-2001 “De Maiz y Fuego - Of Corn and Fire” concert program
1997-2001 “Crazy about light” with Dorothee Sölle
1998 “Fill this blue planet with love” with Ernesto Cardenal and Klaus Götte
1998-2001 “Water is life” with Siegfried Pater
1999-2001 “Canto del Agua - Song of the Water” concert program
2000-2001 “Nuevas Visiones - Development needs debt relief” with Wolfram Frommlet
2001-2002 “The blood-red tomatoes of Rosalia Morales” with Dietmar Schönherr
2002 “Solentiname or the poetry of God” with Ernesto Cardenal
2002-2003 “Singing the song of the earth - in a world of violence” with Dorothee Sölle
2003 “I am longing disguised as a woman” with Gioconda Belli
2004 “In the heart of the revolution” with Ernesto Cardenal
2004-2007 “FAIR changes - dream of a just future” with Siegfried Pater
2005 “The Manuscript of Seduction” with Gioconda Belli
2005 "Esperanza - against the luxury of hopelessness" with Fulbert Steffensky
2005 “Forgotten Peace - Human Rights in Guatemala” with Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini
2006-2008 “Canto a la vida - poems of love, mysticism and revolution” with Ernesto Cardenal
2006-2011 "Sin Fronteras - limitless" concert program
2007 “Bearer of Dreams” concert reading with Gioconda Belli
2009–2012 “Touching the sky” concert reading with Ernesto Cardenal
2009 "Play me the song of bread" Collage on the subject of food justice with Katharina Morello and Ruedi Baumann
2010– “Concert for Amazonia - Voices-Sounds-Pictures” Concert collage with Abadio Green, Thomas Brose and Mehrdad Zaeri
2011– “Horizontes” concert program for the 30th anniversary
2012 “Republic of Women” concert reading with Gioconda Belli on the occasion of her new novel
2012 “Born out of stars” with Ernesto Cardenal on the occasion of the new edition of his complete oeuvre
2013– “Pan y Tierra” collage on the subject of “ Land Grabbing ” with Beat Dietschy and Katharina Morello
2013– “Your kisses enchant me” Concert reading with Pierre Stutz

Discography

  • 500 Years of Solitude (1992)
  • Encuentros (Encounters) (1993)
  • De Maiz y Fuego (Of Corn and Fire) (1996)
  • Crazy About Light (1999)
  • Canto del Agua (Song of the Water) (1999)
  • Sing the Song of the Earth - In a World of Violence (2003)
  • Sin Fronteras (2006)
  • Bearer of Dreams (2007)
  • Canto a la Vida (2008)
  • Horizontes (2011)
  • Porto La Plata (2017)

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