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The Rosario Smowing orchestra, with almost a quarter of a century of polyrhythmic history, is going through its seventh European tour made up of twenty presentations, where it is showing the album “Ahora cuando pasa todo esto” and enjoying the present of a proposal that its leader and singer Diego Casanova defines it as “a musical accident”.
“This musical project is not even a project, it was a musical accident. Everything began to happen with the idea of composing from the day we met there in 1999 and all this wide palette of styles and colors began to happen,” says Casanova during an interview with Télam.
The performer, who also plays trumpet and electric guitar, shares the octet with Julián J. Eroles (clarinet, alto sax and electric guitar), Manuel Fuertes (trompeta y flugelhorn), Sebastian Teglia (electric guitar, piano and Hammond), Diego A. Picech (drums and percussion), Emiliano Salina (bass and double bass), Ivan Rosianski (tenor sax and transverse flute) and Adrian Fontana Fluck (slide trombone).
In the boiling pot where the group’s music is cooked, there is Dixieland from New Orleans, they are Cuban, bossa nova, rocksteady and even Creole music from the River Plate coast.
With the same electric impudence that he gives to his performances, the musician boasts that “one of the band’s premises is not to handle any style. Beyond the fact that at some point we were branded as a swing orchestra, we prefer to say that we are an orchestra with swing.”
“Now when all this happens”
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From that imprint, Rosario Smowing began a tour of the old continent on Tuesday the 11th in Frankfurt that also passed through Prague and that until August 26 includes another 18 performances, seven of them in German cities such as Hamburg, Wolfenbuttël, Ulm and Regensburg.
He will also return to Prague and other places in the Czech Republic (Brno, Vsetice and Netvorice), will go through Slovakia and Austria and will debut in Italy with recitals in Ravenna and Mussomeli.
In these presentations, the ensemble premieres the repertoire of its sixth album“Now when all this happens”, successor to films including “Rosario is no longer what it was”, “If I’m always arriving” and “I don’t promise you anything”.
– What can be said about this new album?
– It is a very representative album of the current moment of the orchestra, beyond all the time it took us to record it, because it began pre-pandemic, continued in the pandemic and ended post-pandemic, with a lot of changes in the middle, with a lot of mobilizations of internal and external, musical and extra-musical issues that were happening and I think that the album is precisely about that, that it is showing “what happens now when everything happens”.
– What does it mean to be finalizing a seventh European tour?
– Lots of work, lots of stress. It implies having new material, having a lot of things to show and above all wanting to travel and play a lot. And dedicating himself for two months to just playing, playing, playing and playing.
– Is there any genre that you already know that the European audience asks for and enjoys more? Which is it?
– Actually, the European people absolutely enjoy everything that we have proposed to them. They are people with a great desire to enjoy themselves, very eager to have a good time. We always tend to go in summer and that makes us find them much more predisposed since they have long winters and being quite confined. So our proposal, which is always festive, beyond the styles, is what they like and it is what we like that they receive. It is a round trip that makes us feel at home.
– What do you think the European public is attracted to in Rosario Smowing’s proposal?
– The ease of the orchestra, the willingness to party, not feeling more or less for being on stage, but sharing the night. I think our audacity, to put it in some way. We are eight guys on the move up there.
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– What memories do you have of your previous trips to Europe?
– The memories of the previous trips to Europe are endless, beginning with the surprise of seeing how the public had fun with our things. Finding yourself in front of a lot of people and realizing that they didn’t speak Spanish and I, who am a type of talking a lot, encountering that difficulty and trying to communicate by stammering some English and making myself understood in some way.
– What do you think Rosario Smowing is today in local and Argentine music?
– In local and national music, Rosario Smowing is a small point but has been present for a long time with its own label and its own smell. I think that when Rosario Smowing is played, people are placed in the context of where the orchestra is walking.
– Do you plan to present “Ahora cuando todo esto pasa” in Argentina when you return from the tour?
– Yes, the idea is that when we return from Europe at the end of August to be able to do a little tour of all the places in the country where we can go and where we are welcome to be able to present the new album with a lot of new songs.
2023-07-21 07:49:28
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