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Alan Plachta
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Born: November 30, 1981

Alan Plachta is guitar player (both electic and nylon), composer and arranger
He plays guitar with some of the more important jazz bands in Buenos Aires, like “Argentos”, “Damian Fogiel Quinteto”, among others. He has also played with “Escalandrum”, “Inmigrantes Big Band”, among others.
He has played in very different musical contexts such as: Argentinian Folk music (”Dura Tierra”, Nacho abad), Funk/Fusion (Marcelo del Paggio) Rock (Celeste Carballo, Bacquerock)
As a producer/arranger now is workin on the debut album of argentinian singer Daniela Horovitz.
He is also part of the electic guitars orchestra, leaded by Sergio Alvarez.

Home: Capital Fedderal, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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(La Nacion, Argentina): Alan Plachta lo hizo. Este joven guitarrista argentino rompió el maleficio de los segundos discos (el que impide que un buen debut discográfico sea superado por su sucesor) y logró que Lúdico, su flamante álbum, sorprendiera por las canciones, compuestas por Plachta, en general muy inspiradas y en particular con un punto alto en “Guillotina”, y por el virtuoso desempeño de este músico y de sus cuatro compañeros (los saxofonistas Gustavo Musso y Damián Fogiel, el contrabajista Carlos Alvarez y el baterista Alejandro López). El quinteto le sienta bien a Plachta, que cede protagonismo en beneficio de Musso y Fogiel, y la ganancia es para todos. Sobre todo para quien escuche estas canciones, enroladas en el mejor jazz argentino del momento. Ricardo Carpena



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Alan Plachta plays Bragan classical guitars and Heritage electric guitars.



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Created: August 20, 2005 | Updated: June 8, 2009

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