NAHEBA is a folk music group from Cantabria (North Spain), whose work is based mainly in the composition and arrangements of Cantabria traditional music.
Naheba sound is mainly acoustic,based in instruments like fiddle,flute,bagpipe,acoustic guitar,bouzouki and
percussion. Their most important influences are acoustic groups like The Tannahill Weavers, LLan de Cubel, Corquieu, The Bothy Band; and irish,scottish and cantabrian music in
general.
At the end of 2008, Naheba released their first album “Vau Cureñas”, whose name refers to a beautiful mountain in Sejos (Cantabria), a place where you can get lost among the
amazing landscape and the feeling of freedom. It's composed of 11 tracks which range from well-known traditional tunes (la molinera) to compositions of their own, arranged in an acoustic style
NaHeBa are:
Rafa Ibáñez: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass pedal
Javier García: Bouzouki , wooden flute in Eb
Javier Román “el niñu”: fiddle,voice and backing vocals
Sergio Sordo: Asturian Pipe in Bb, wooden flute in Eb and whistles
Jose Luis R. Magdaleno: Bodhran, voice and backing vocals
… and from time to time…
Daniel Alvarez: wooden flutes in Eb and F
Vau Cureñas
NAHEBA is a folk music group from Cantabria (North Spain), whose work is based mainly in the composition and arrangements of Cantabria traditional music.
Naheba sound is mainly acoustic,based in instruments like fiddle,flute,bagpipe,acoustic guitar,bouzouki and
percussion. Their most important influences are acoustic groups like The Tannahill Weavers, LLan de Cubel, Corquieu, The Bothy Band; and irish,scottish and cantabrian music in
general.
At the end of 2008, Naheba released their first album “Vau Cureñas”, whose name refers to a beautiful mountain in Sejos (Cantabria), a place where you can get lost among the
amazing landscape and the feeling of freedom. It's composed of 11 tracks which range from well-known traditional tunes (la molinera) to compositions of their own, arranged in an acoustic style
NaHeBa are:
Rafa Ibáñez: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass pedal
Javier García: Bouzouki , wooden flute in Eb
Javier Román “el niñu”: fiddle,voice and backing vocals
Sergio Sordo: Asturian Pipe in Bb, wooden flute in Eb and whistles
Jose Luis R. Magdaleno: Bodhran, voice and backing vocals
… and from time to time…
Daniel Alvarez: wooden flutes in Eb and F
You can visit us in the following Internet site:
http://www.myspace.com/naheba
# Posted on June 30th 2009 by Rafix