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Pogo: Melodic Presents Guti Live [Desolat] Twisted Pepper June 7th

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  • 13-05-2014 9:18pm
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    Melodic
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    One of our biggest bookings to date takes over the basement of The Twisted Pepper for his Irish debut.

    GUTI is among the most sought after live acts on the planet at the moment and is riding high on the Resident Advisor 2013 live acts at no.5.

    "Guti is a restless performer. While some rely on the big hits to power their live performances, the Argentinian is all about innovation, ensuring no two sets are ever the same. As a result, this summer he played a wider range of parties in Ibiza than any other artist. With plans to launch his own jazz label in the new year, as well as talk of a second album, Guti's journey in 2014 should be a fascinating listen."

    June 7th
    Doors: 22:30pm

    Tickets:
    €13 / €15 - available from www.bodytonicmusic.com

    LINE UP

    Basement:
    GUTI - live
    Dog Days
    Karl Delaney

    Café:
    TBC



    A classically-trained jazz virtuoso and national rock ‘n’ roll hero in Argentina, Guti’s double 12” pack for Desolat will leave you in no doubt of his ability to twist a snaking groove into something echoingly hypnotic. The tracks contained here are already a favourite in the record boxes of artists like Loco Dice, Seth Troxler and Marco Carola, while Guti’s life story could itself be the subject of a story by Jorge Luis Borges: "I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths."


    Guti was born in an exceptionally musical, sprawling catholic family, which included orchestra directors, saxophone players and pianists. His grandfather and uncles emigrated from Russia after the war. His mother, an education consultant, is from Uruguay. On long hot summers in that neighbouring country, Guti would steal hours alone at the piano (first teaching himself how to play at the age of five) in a big house belonging to his uncle.

    Finally, some years
    later, the family accepted that he could really play – and at the age of 12 a friend of his mother gave him his first jazz shock by challenging him to match Oscar Peterson’s performance on the Night Train record.
    During the rule of the El Proceso military junta, Guti’s family fled to cities in Venezuela and Costa Rica: a story arching across Latin America, France and Russia. As a child he soaked up poems and novels by Borges and Vargas Llosa and his father would sing him Cuban songs. He is influenced by the folk music of Argentina, which he says is both incredibly intricate and perfectly simple.
    Guti loves adventures – the spark of discovery seems to be a driving force for him. In 2009 he bounced between Berlin, Athens and Paris, making tracks as he went. Although he plans to move to Düsseldorf in 2010 to hunker down in the studio to concentrate on the Guti techno and house project, it’s unlikely he’ll leave behind the spirit of the Latin America he knows. “I love Buenos Aires. It’s a huge city… a huge jungle. Really fast, really crazy, dirty, messy. But
    really creative: amazing musicians. That happens with all the poor countries. We don’t have money, so we play music. We write books.”

    As a teen, after getting into blues he began hanging with successful Argentine rock bands like the Black and Blues, Ratones Paranoicos, Viejas Locas and Los Piojos. “We were jamming, and I discovered that energy.” Before long, his own band Jovenes Pordioseros were playing to 10,000 people from Thursday through Saturday. But it’s not in Guti’s nature to stay locked in one mode of music. He made time to study salsa from a Cuban teacher on the side, as well as studying jazz under various teachers including internationally-renowned pianist Ernesto Jodos.
    It was in the studio of Latin Grammy-nominated producer and friend Leandro Martinez that Guti began experimenting with making house beats and singing on top. And having grown up with music, it didn’t take long before he was banging out several tracks a day without breaking a sweat.
    A heartbeat later, he’d landed a hit with Damian Schwarz on Frankfurt label Raum…Musik, and the tune was licensed by Loco Dice for his compilation The Lab. Guti passed a handful more tracks in Loco Dice’s direction, and the die was cast. Guti’s electronic career began to ignite.
    Just two years after his first live sets in Europe, Desolat is proud to present Guti’s Las Cosas Que No Se Tocan. The beats follow Guti across continents: Mr Good Vibes was composed in a hotel room in Stuttgart after an argument with a friend, while the serious dancefloor vibes of Sasa, the Hustler and Leuuu were channelled in Martinez’ studio. Leuuu and the Hustler feature slices of glamorous, haunting vocals by Jason Walker, a British singer that Guti discovered on Myspace.

    And Sasa boasts Guti’s own vocal touches. Meanwhile, the track Aguanile is inspired by one of his favourite melodies as a child, one that he’s collected many versions of. The last track on the release, El Campeon, reaches a bittersweet ending in the wide open space between percussive trills and a cut-out refrain, inspired by Guti’s favourite Latin storylines of “broken hearts and pain”.


    Upcoming Melodics:

    May 2nd: Dice & Melodic Present: Jon Rundell [Intec] at The HUB, Temple Bar

    June 7th: Pogo & Melodic Present Guti [Desolat] at The Twisted Pepper

    August 22nd: Dice & Melodic Present: Andrea Oliva [Defected, Cadenza, Ants]

    October 10th: Dice & Melodic Present: Watergate Label Night with Sebo K & Matthias Meyer

    Have you seen our video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXo5Q5-EMSk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpnv6KL_nZ0


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