Jazz Articles about El Gran Silencio

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Silencio: Silencio

by Jack Huntley
January 12, 2013

Composer, guitarist and bandleader Kirk Salopek's Silencio is a concept project that draws its inspiration from the films of David Lynch and the accompanying scores of Angelo Badalamenti. Like Salopek's previous outing, Transitions (Glassville, 2011), with his Mandrake Project, Silencio's strength is its ability to create instant atmosphere and lush, layered arrangements.Salopek's tunes are melody driven, but leave enough open space for the accompanying members of his El Gran Silencio group to play off each others' solos and ...

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El Gran Silencio: Super Riddim Internacional Volume 1

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 7, 2003

It almost never fails: think to yourself just once, however quiet and solitary your thought, that by now you must have heard every type of music and instrumentation, and life is sure to drop on ya something that you’ve never heard before. El Gran Silencio has is that latest something new.

El Gran Silencio plays Mexican pop and rock, whipped as in a blender with other Mexican, Latin and world music. The group came together when brothers Tony ...