ALMALÉ new album "Hixa mía"

Born on the viola da gamba, Almalé discovers ancient music with a new air for our modern ears. Minimalism, jazz and Latin rhythms on a Renaissance and Baroque origin by authors such as Santiago de Murcia or Stefano Landi.

Almalé is a sound collage. The violagambist and vocalist Pilar Almalé gives her name to this project that she directs by the hand of the violinist Thomas Kretszchmar, the guitarist Alex Comín and the percussionist Fran Gazol. Four musicians as different as they are professionals and marked by their experience, which offer a unique and groundbreaking sound as a result.

Almalé arises from the repertoire of ancient music: medieval, Renaissance and baroque but with a new and different proposal: with influences of jazz, world music, Cuban rhythms, improvisations of a manouche violin ... offering as a result a fresh and young, suitable for all ears, from the most classic to the less conventional. The album combines a repertoire of old music arrangements with new compositions by Pilar Almalé.

Pilar Almalé is a multidisciplinary artist. Violagambista specialized in ancient music, he has opened the doors to other instruments such as his own voice, the medieval vihuela and the sraj, as well as other styles such as folk, world music or jazz.

He has toured important national and international stages as part of noted early music festivals. In 2017, he worked on the national tour of the piper Carlos Núñez and shared the stage with musicians such as Jordi Savall or Dulce Pontes.

Of multidisciplinary training, his education ranges from the "classical" Conservatory (Conservatorio Zaragoza and Sevilla, and Conservatorio Superior de Vigo), through the Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, initiation to theater, contemporary dance with Ana Continent or the performance of sraj at the Official School of Music in Varanasi (India). She received a scholarship from the Cooperation Office of the University of Seville for two consecutive years to teach music and cello to children in India and Bolivia.

He currently has other projects such as Caranzalem, with the flutist Elena Escartín and Ceci n’est pas Baroque, with the violagambist Patricia Rodríguez. He is a performer and vocalist in the Aragonese folk group Biella Nuei.