| Anxo Lorenzo | |
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| Birth name | Anxo Lorenzo |
| Born | December 28, 1974 Moaña, Pontevedra, , Galicia, Spain |
| Genres | Celtic music, folk, rock, alternative, pop, chill-out, Hindu music |
| Occupations | Musician and multi-instrumentalist |
| Instruments | Galician bagpipe, gaita, piano Flauta Barroca |
| Years active | 1979–present |
Anxo Lorenzo is a musician who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe, from Moaña (Tirán), a small village on the Atlantic Coast of Galicia (Spain).
Is a new breed of musician who sees no barriers when experimenting with traditional and contemporary music and has the ability of seamlessly amalgamating the two into vibrant, fresh and new melodies and rhythms.
Anxo has managed to fuse the unadulterated natural sound of the Gaita (Galician Bagpipes) with a wide variety of alternative music styles such as: Rock, Pop, Jazz, Flamenco, Chill Out, Hip-Hop and electronic, converting the Gaita into an avant-garde instrument without giving-up his celtic roots.
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Anxo has collaborated with what reads like a Who is Who of the music world, from the pure traditional folk scene to jazz, not forgetting rock, pop and electronic genres, such as Skape, Celtas Cortos, Lunasa, Kathryn Tickell, Michael McGoldrick, The Chieftains, Daimh, The National Jazz Orchestra, Luigi Lai, Diarmaid Moynihan, Brian Finnegan, Dervish, Jaula de Grillos, Tejedor, Angus Mackenzie, Iain MacDonald, Germán Díaz, Jarlath Henderson, Ross Ainslie, Andy May, Fred Morrison, Mónica Molina, Amistades Peligrosas, Xarabal, Om/Off, Poncho K and Spiritu 986.
As a classically trained musician, soloist and composer Anxo continues with his research into various fields of music and gives master classes all over the world.[1]
If you thought bagpipes were solely confined to Scotland and Ireland,[2][3] Anxo Lorenzo will prove otherwise.
For not only is the instrument found throughout Europe,[4] it's also travelled as far afield as North Africa and the Persian Gulf.
Anxo himself represents the open-eared piping faction to be found in Galicia on Spain's Atlantic coast. It's a region with close and indisputable links with the Celtic world; indeed, Anxo can name Irish music titans like The Chieftains and Lunasa among his more notable collaborators.
The plumpness of his contacts book emphasises that this is a man who is not strictly faithful to his home territory's traditions, preferring to skip freely across borders and genres, while also perfectly at ease with extending beyond the acoustic world.
And he's an exhilarating performer, his fast fingers tracing ridiculously intricate melodies; when top gear is reached, it's impossible to fathom how a human brain can actually work that fast.
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