About  EL FANFARON

“Experimental/Traditional”, World, Singer-Songwriting, Chanson, Indie Rock 
Latin, RnB, Rumba, Reggae, Bossanova, Psych Folk, Funk, Oriental, Vintage 60-70s

About EL FANFARON

Experimental/Traditional”, World, Singer-Songwriting, Chanson, Indie Rock Latin, RnB, Rumba, Reggae, Bossanova, Psych Folk, Funk, Oriental, Vintage 60-70s

El Fanfaron sono diverse anime, diverse personalita’, ognuna simile all’altra e diversa a seconda del suo immaginario istantaneo... e del background culturale e geografico.. realta’ e immaginazione si intrecciano..Temi seri del mondo e follia della vita..- - - - - - - - - – - - - -El Fanfaron borned as duo project, in order to play with drums (Fabian Wiesmann), songs and instrumental music written by guitar, harmonica, melodica and other instruments (Mirko Di Lanzo). Then it grows by chance with a third element, a viola (Andrea Müller). As a trio, we play also other instruments, in particular melodica and percussions.After being a trio for months, we found the right bassist, a musician with long experience (Santiago Benavides).Sometimes the great Austrian trumpeter and corneter Sigi Konzett join us in Zurich where we live .“El Fanfaron” is an hibrid word (between Italian, Spanish..) but in latin languages refers to someone who talks a lot, a braggart, chatty, loudmouth, a big mouth, maybe a bit arrogant sometimes but cause harmless, he actually probably knows his weakness; probably an inconclusive then, maybe a looser or maybe a winner keeping dreaming in the reality.But El Fanfaron can be also mean the big Fanfara, a big band meaning our opening in playing occasionally with new musicians and his different instrument, discovering new hidden personalities of a song and its sounds.As a modern-day Troubadour El Fanfaron finds "himself" in several cultural references and behaviours, appreciating the beauty of the different atmospheres coming from all the place in the world and re-interpreting them. El Fanfaron identify itself rather with the cultural richness of this world. His music is therefore a reflection of many approaches, a fusion of imputs and styles. Its music and singed is getting shaped by emotional expression and a wide range of audible elements, coming not from various music genres only, but from the access to emotions itself. So every times the performances and interpretations of its music are structured as "songs" or in other cases re-interpretated considering the freedom and the uniqueness of improvisation. El Fanfaron is “one and many” at the same time, several souls, personalities, always someone else, or maybe just the same person with the infinite personalities hidden behind us. Maybe El Fanfaron is a simple human being lost a bit in the perception of both, his own world and the world: in the comprehension of himself, his own dreams, fears and expectations, between drama and irony, between reality and dreams, serious social issues and more craziest and intimate.There are many different way that make the songs come out as a creative process which is "research" itself: investigation on music itself and expressive potential behind styles, rithms, melodies, harmonies, investigation on ourself as human being and research on this world we live. Sometimes the inspiration is leaded by a melody, sometimes by a rithm, sometime by a vision or by a landscape, which turns into a sonar landscape. Sometimes from some crazy human feelings, or the desire to express madly something, sometimes from the harmony, a rhythm, a text or just a sentence, a personification in someone else, real or imaginary, in a paradoxical situation or a cultural transposition. The language which occurs at that moment of the inspiration of the composition is another unique element shaping in a even more peculiar way the identity of a musical piece and the personality which would come out at the moment of the interpretation of the song.So the songs reflect our society and the metropolitan cultural contamination which could influences and change us, opening new “views” and meanings. So the songs, borning in different languages (in particular Italian, English and Spanish) are influenced from different colours, lights, musical styles and lifestyles representing all sorts of cultural flavors and backgrounds around the world. . A part from a global thinking, there are also background experiences influencing us, for example Mirko's past growing in a restaurant in a city near Rome, in contact always with new different people, from all social spectrum. The restaurant at the end was the big family where appreciate the differences between the several personalities which actually represent us and our many way to be "all in one". So this is still a spontaneous powerfull reference at the moment of writing and compose songs, trying to "play" with the actors of the songs and their "worlds". The restaurant was like a big comedy scene in a theatre... and now this theatre is in the music and somehow is the world.El Fanfaron could performs at concerts, Art or other Festivals involved in collaborations that range from film projects to poetry and theatre.We are now working on recording our first album within this project.PS: Previous Work with a trio band www.myspace.com/iprofessionisti Cd out in 2012: http://skankblocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-sensazionali-suoni-cisalpini-dei-professionistiHere a pillow of a concert with my preview trio band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIzviC8KAWg