Lorena Zarranz returns home. Born in Roca, but settled for more than twenty years in France, this weekend the music formed at INSA, now IUPA, He will perform with the trio that bears his name: this Friday, at 8:30 p.m., at the Cipolletti Cultural Complex, with general admission at $10,000; and tomorrow Saturday, at 9 p.m., in House of Rock Culture, with advance tickets at $8,000 and at the door at $12,000.
Lorena Zarranz Trio is completed with the virtuoso French musicians Jean-Noel Rohéin bass; and
Jonathan Haessleron battery. Lorena leads the group on guitar, loops, composition and voice. On this occasion they will be accompanied by the guitars of Ariel Zarranz and Jorge Palacios.
“We come to the Valley with two objectives,” Lorena announces at the beginning of an email exchange with RÍO NEGRO Diarywhile waiting for the flight to Argentina. “One is to record ‘Passerelle‘our second album, in the RAG studio, from Roca. For the occasion, we invited some Valletano musicians to share this experience with us. There will be Mara Diniello (harp), Jorge Palacios (guitar), Mauricio Lusardi (piano), Matias Medus (charango), María Suárez (voice) and Ariel Zarranz (electric guitar).”
Passerelle, says Lorena, is a bit of the end of a cycle, a round trip between northwest Argentina, where this project began, and France, where it matured and took the form it has today.
“In this project my two houses because France and Argentina coexist and I hope that ‘Passerelle’, which in French means bridge, “It will be the first of many bridges that we will be able to create with this project,” he enthuses. And the other objective is… “Obviously play!”
The tour will end with a recording workshop that will be taught by Jonathan Haessler, the trio’s drummer, in the studio of Roquense drummer Leonardo Álvarez, on Monday, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
From Rock to world music
Roquense from the Los Olmos neighborhood, Lorena Zarranz says that she picked up a guitar for the first time at the age of ten, that she studied at the old INSA, now IUPA, and that, at 19, she migrated to Paraná after the teachings of a great teacher. . At 25, another teacher took her to France.
Musician, teacher, composer, since 2001 she has lived in France, more precisely in Dambach la Ville, a town 40 kilometers from Strasbourg, in the province of Alsace, very close to the border with Germany. She says that what led her to emigrate was the classical guitar and the desire to study with the great teacher Pablo Márquez.
But that was just the starting point. “Later, the professional opportunities, the possibility of discovering a different culture, the meetings with other musicians and Sylvia, my partner for 20 years, made France my second place in the world. “The first will always be Argentina.”
Lorena Zarranz Trío, the group that will arrive in the region for the first time, since in its previous visit, in 2018, it had presented something like the premises of this project in a single set format with a loopera as a central instrument, is, in In his words, “my way of bringing together my French part and my Argentine part in a single project. This trio is the most personal project I have done so far and I am happy to be able to carry it out with my friends and excellent French musicians, Jean-Noël Rohé on bass and Jonathan Haessler on drums. For me it is a way to create a bridge between my Argentine history, my origins, and my current life in France.”
Folclore groovero
It is said of the music of Lorena Zarranz Trío that it is sensual, original music; a current, groovy and atypical folklore. That is to say: “The proposal is innovative thanks to the mixture that is super varied. From the composition, I started from the couplets and mixed them with musical elements that come from jazz, rock, Argentine popular music and other places (Balkans, North Africa, etc.),” Lorena summarizes. “At the same time, I sought to take care of the acoustic sound of our instruments and the timeless essence of the couplets.”
For her, the copla was an experience that changed her relationship with music. “Behind an apparent simplicity, in each couplet there is a whole world to discover, a landscape, a culture, an idiosyncrasy that can be experienced through the couplet. And this format left me a huge space to be able to mix the copla with so many other genres that accompany me and that have built me as a musician.” The result is what Lorena calls “new copla,” whose importance was decisive since “through it I was able to discover my voice.”
The path taken by Lorena Zarranz from her formative years in Roca to the present, after more than two decades in France, is a long path full of diverse and complementary music. From classical music, through popular music from Brazil and Argentina, to jazz and world music. “Everything has left a mark on me, everything has nourished me. Going to France allowed me to grow as a musician, access other cultures, meet musicians from other countries, with other influences. But, above all, it allowed me to reinvent myself, make music completely different from the classical guitar repertoire and take on this more personal search that I feel represents me better.”
2024-10-25 09:00:00