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Thanks to the musical influence of his family, Calmet began his musical journey at an early age while growing up in Lima, Peru. His family exposed him to all kinds of styles and genres of music, including Brazilian, Peruvian, salsa, rock and jazz. This inspired him to start learning to play guitar and drums. At 18, when his musical career was just beginning to flourish, he was already recording with local musicians, working as a session drummer with different bands and playing live regularly. Calmet's musical personality has always been very broad, he would be considered primarily an improviser, but he also appreciates and has a great fascination for architectural music

Album

Flying High

By Cote Calmet

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Flying High; Charles William Light Goes To Jail; Shake it til you make it; Ghosts; Aji; For Her; Granada; The Day The World Smiled Back; Instinct; Mango, Walkin' Here.

Article: Album Review

CC Syndicate: Flying High

Read "Flying High" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 25, 2026

The CC is Peruvian drummer-composer Cote Calmet; the Syndicate is a jazz-funk quartet baring multiple musical signposts. Based in Granada after a decade in Ireland, Calmet has found new creative energy under the Spanish sun. In Andalusia, he has reactivated both Phisqa, his Afro-Peruvian jazz quintet, and CEO(L) Experiment, after long periods of hibernation. African and ...

Article: Live Review

Eddie Henderson's Miles Legacy At Mermaid Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
May 10, 2026

Eddie Henderson's Miles LegacyMermaid Arts Centre25th Bray Jazz FestivalBray, IrelandMay 3, 2026 It was a night of double celebration at Mermaid Arts Centre for the closing act of Bray Jazz Festival 2026. Firstly, BJF was celebrating its 25th edition, a milestone that speaks volumes for the dedication--and tenacity--of the festival's founding directors, Dorothy & ...

Article: Album Review

Next Experiment: Next Experiment

Read "Next Experiment" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 6, 2024

Without musical ideas a band's shelf-life as a vital entity is usually limited--that is a given. Commitment is perhaps a more underrated quality. Pianist Leopoldo Osio and bassist Peter Erdei have bags of that, steering the Dublin band formerly known as CEO Experiment through the choppy waters of a key member leaving, followed by the long ...

Article: Live Review

Dave Douglas & Trish Clowes: Eyes Up / Next Experiment At Bray Jazz Festival

by Ian Patterson
May 14, 2024

Dave Douglas & Trish Clowes: Eyes Up/Next Experiment Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 5, 2024 The smaller stages remained abuzz well into the wee hours on the last night of Bray Jazz Festival, but a little earlier the final act on the main stage--in the Mermaid ...

Article: Album Review

BigSpoon: The Return Of The Prodigal Son

Read "The Return Of The Prodigal Son" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2022

South African saxophonist Chris Engel has been a ubiquitous figure on the Irish jazz/improvised scene since arriving in Dublin in 2011. Whether in Chris Guilfoyle's modernist Umbra, Cote Calmet's Afro-Peruvian-inspired Phisqa, Italian guitarist Julien Colarossi's quartet or the Weather Report tribute band, Plaza Real, Engel's commitment is total, his fierce technique matched by a fearless improvisatory ...

Album

Pachamama

By Cote Calmet

Label: Odradek Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Guacamayos; Chaqcha; Colibrì; Lima La Gris; Lullaby for Nicomedes; Suspensión; Moche; Shipiba; Foli; Manu.

Article: Interview

Cote Calmet: Cultivating Afro-Peruvian Rhythms

by Ian Patterson
May 17, 2021

What do a dead donkey, a Seat Alhambra and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham all have in common? Whatever images your mind's eye may conjure, these three clues, in fact, all lead to Phisqa, the contemporary jazz band of Afro-Peruvian bent, formed by drummer Cote Calmet in Dublin, Ireland, in 2010. But let's not get ...

Article: Album Review

Phisqa: Pachamama

Read "Pachamama" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 16, 2021

Time has marched on since the eponymous debut of Phisqa, (Self-Produced, 2013), the band led by Peruvian drummer Cote Calmet. Then based in Dublin, Calmet placed the multinational quintet under wraps when his CEO Experiment--initially a trio, co-founded with Leopoldo Osio and Peter Erdei--started to take off. A promising debut recording, which also featured the great ...