Wind player, composer and improviser, a reference in Argentine and Latin American popular music, died on October 28, 2021at 79 years old.
He was born in the city of La Plata, on December 15, 1942.
He was the first director of the Tiempo Vocal Quintet and was based in Barcelona, Spain, between 2004 and 2012, after which he returned to the country.
He also lived in France and Japan, places where his imprint as a performer and composer capable of combining the sounds of the quena with electronic music took him.
He joined musical groups such as the Cumbo-Lito Vitale-Lucho González trio, which had an important impact in the 1980s, and duets with Manolo Juárez and Leo Masliah.
Besides, Jorge Cumbo He played alongside figures such as Peteco Carabajal, who after the news of his departure defined him as “a tormented and luminous angel.”
Part of these sound experimentations can be seen in albums such as “Cañas y Computadoras” (1995) and “Cañas y Guitarras” (1997) while their first album was called “The Snow and the Rainbow”.
His music combined elements of jazz, folklore and improvisation, and integrated his aerophones into electronic music in real time.
We remember this artist through his interpretation of `Huayno T’, during the recital he offered on September 9, 2016 at the Radio Nacional Auditorium, broadcast by Nacional Folklórica, and which is preserved in the Historical Archive of the public broadcaster.
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