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Jim Marshall, R.I.P.

We’re very sorry to hear about the passing of Mr. Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amps and known as the “Father of Loud” for designing the guitar amplifiers that helped shape the sound of electric guitar as we know it today. Pete Townsend, Jimi Hendrix, and others worked with him and his design of Amp head plus 4×12 guitar cabinet is the absolute standard for rock guitar used by millions today. We will miss him very much, thank you for your legacy: the huge sound of electric guitar exists thanks to you!!!

La isla de los tiburones [BAULA PROJECT LIVE] (backing track completo para tocar melodia y solo) – [pieza original aqui]

Regresión [BAULA PROJECT] ](backing track completo para melodia y lead guitar)

Estrellame solo [GANDHI-ARIGATO] (backing track)

Estrellame solo (en loop)

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“Baula Project Live + La Isla de los Tiburones” (Baula Project Live + Shark Island) is an instrumental album by Costa Rican guitarist Federico Miranda released in december 2011. It includes 6 tracks recorded live at the Teatro Variedades in San Jose – previously contained in the studio album Baula Project (2005). It also includes studio track “Shark Island” recorded in 2011 and a previously unreleased piece recorded on 4-track cassette recorder in 1992.

The album is available for digital download on bandcamp.com
Includes all 8 tracks, a digital booklet and alternate digital cover art.

GET “BAULA PROJECT LIVE+SHARK ISLAND” DIGITAL ALBUM DOWNLOAD HERE

“Baula Project Live + La isla de los tiburones” is also available as a physical limited edition carry case made of recycled plastic and designed by TRASH LIFESTYLE , it is a green pouch with a black Leatherback Turtle. Includes a black Leatherback turtle guitar pick, a PRETOMA sticker against Hammerhead Shark finning. These are available only on concerts and presentations, but if you want one please write us at the contact. (Few of these left.)

If you already have a download code, you can get the album on the following link:
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“El Regreso” Soundtrack

Review by Jaime Peligro

El Regreso Soundtrack

Writing a soundtrack is tricky business. The music needs to compliment the action
and images of the movie of the film without being pervasive. It needs to follow the
storyline so in this way it is almost like an assignment. And all good musicians want to
put their own personal stamp on their music, so it needs to fall into the category of artistic
expression as well: no musician wants their work to become wallpaper. This article is a
review of the soundtrack of the new Costa Rica movie “El Regreso”; it is not a review of
the film, which is wildly popular right now.
Federico Miranda picked up his first guitar with serious intentions at the age of
twelve and taught himself to play. In 1993, he formed the popular Costa Rican rock
band Gandhi, one of the first of this genre in this country. They have since released
four albums and in 2005, Miranda also teamed up with pianist Walter Flores to work on
the Baula Project, a fusion quartet who dedicated this album to the preservation of the
leatherback turtle.
Moving in a new artistic direction, Federico scored the music for this soundtrack, then
brought together ten musicians to begin recording it under the name Banda Sonora. Sr.
Miranda plays acoustic and electric guitars on the soundtrack, as well as programmed
keyboards. The band consists of Abel Guier on bass guitar, piano, the two percussionists
Juan Carlos Pardo and Ale Fernandez, violinists Caterina Tellini and Ingrid Solano,
Ricardo Ramirez playing viola and Marianela Lamb on cello, making up the string
section, along with Johnathan Mena Jimenez on flute and Jorge Rodriguez Herrera,
contributing the horn section. I should point out that six of the twenty-three songs were
contributions from six other Costa Rican bands, including Lucho Calavera y la Canalla
with “Solo Conmigo” from their very popular new album. So, the soundtrack really is an
extensive team effort. But the album belongs to Miranda, whose acoustic guitar works is
showcased on the gentler numbers on the disc, such as the opening cut, “Chepe Centro”
as well as on a variety of other musical vignettes throughout the CD. He worked for
hours with filmmaker Hernan Jimenez discussing various scenes and plots of the film
before even a single note had been written. The music seems to alternate between soft
and up-tempo, giving a kind of pulse to the album and becoming one of the fibers that is
the tapestry of “El Regreso”.
Other standout songs on the album include Son de Tikizia performing the Walter
Flores composition “Jugaste con mi Destino” and the title song, “El Regreso”. I also
really liked the two bonus tracks at the end of the disc.
It is no surprise that Papaya Music is distributing the CD, as one of their goals is to
display to the world the great array of Costa Rican music. This CD, containing more
than one hour of variety of Costa Rican music, fits right into that philosophy and is an
excellent addition to anyone’s music collection.

Baula ProjectSubir al sol | Sobre el agua | Escape | Noreste | Regresión | Mejor No | Caminos de tierra | El nómada | Primer día | En tránsito | En Aranjuez con tu amor (basada en el segundo movimiento del Concierto de Aranjuez por Joaquín Rodrigo)Disco solista de guitarra eléctrica, fusión jazz rock instrumental o “Música Impresionista Naturalista” dedicado a preservar la tortuga baula. Participan los músicos Walter Flores, Mario Alvarez, Gilberto Jarquín y Tapado Vargas, con Federico Miranda en guitarra eléctrica y acústica. Comprar

Música Impresionista Naturalista

Inspirado por los océanos y paisajes de Costa Rica, mi misión era convertir estas emociones en texturas musicales usando la guitarra electrica y acústica rodeada por capas de piano, bajo, flauta y percusión. Mis influencias han sido variadas y opuestas: rock progresivo melodico (Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck) diferentes corrientes tradicionales del mundo (Celta, flamenco, Latinoamericana), música clásica, y finalmente algunos toques de jazz (Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern.) Creo que esta fusión de estilos y sonidos hace de “Baula Project” un disco diferente y ecléctico.

La tortuga baula es la tortuga marina más grande y antigua del planeta con mas de 100 millones de años de existir. Anida en la costa pacífica de Costa Rica y en otras partes del mundo, pero se ha visto muy amenazada por los cambios que ha hecho el hombre en el medio ambiente.

“Un disco que me sorprendió gratamente, y me reafirma que música de excelencia hay en todo el mundo. Además, el álbum tiene una producción y sonido realmente de lujo.  Siempre he visto a los centroamericanos como gente relajada y amable, y esta placa lo reafirma completamente. Un muy buen descubrimiento, y un verdadero agrado de escuchar. Recomendable absolutamente.”

Gustavo Serrano, CDK (Santiago, Chile)

“Baula Project de Federico Miranda es algo que vale la pena escuchar. Este joven guitarrista tiene las cualidades para ser un músico de clase mundial. Toca con convicción y sensibilidad. Más importante, las composiciones están bien formadas. Es difícil hacer música eléctrica instrumental sonar algo diferente a fusión. Federico Miranda logra esto. Su música es real y viene del alma.”

Dominic Miller (guitarrista de Sting)

Adquiéralo en

Con la compra de este disco ayuda al Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas de Guanacaste a través de la Fundación Marviva

Músicos

	Federico Miranda – guitarra eléctrica y acústica.
	Walter Flores- piano, teclados, flauta traversa.Walter ha colaborado con Rubén Blades como director musical y productor por más de diez anos y es ganador de 3 premios Grammy por su trabajo en los discos “Tiempos” y “Mundo”. También ha tocado con Editus, Willie Colón, Danilo Pérez, Nestor Torres, Abraham Laboriel, Mark Quiñones, Bobbie Allende, Juan Luis Guerra y Leon Gieco. Actualmente es pianista y director musical del grupo Son de Tikizia. Página oficial: www.walterflores.com
	Mario Alvarez– bajo y bajo fretlessReconocido músico de estudio, arreglista y director musical, Mario ha trabajado y tocado con el grupo Editus, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Costa Rica y el Festival Internacional de Guitarra.
	Gilberto Jarquín- batería.Baterista del grupo Malpaís, con quienes ha grabado los discos “Uno” y “Historias de Nadie”, además de grabar un DVD en vivo. También ha colaborado con Bernardo Quesada, Sasha Campbell y Manuel Obregón. Página oficial del grupo Malpaís: www.grupomalpais.com
	Carlos “Tapado” Vargas- percusiónMiembro del grupo Editus con una amplia discografia y 2 premios Grammy por su participación junto al panameño Rubén Blades. También es integrante del grupo Malpaís y recientemente presento su disco “Nativa” junto a Walter Flores. Página oficial del grupo Editus: www.edituscr.com

Créditos

Producido por Federico Miranda y Walter Flores
Grabado y mezclado por Walter Flores en Estudios FM, San José, Costa Rica, 2005.
Masterizado por Steve Fallone en Sterling Sound, NYC.
Publishing: Baula Music (BMI) y Ediciones Joaquín Rodrigo
Diseño gráfico por Massimo y Lalo Hernández, H2O Comunicación, San Jose, CR.
Productora discógrafica: Baula Music (Baula Producciones, Ltda.)