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JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2026: Santiago Lamisovski Trio(Argentina)-Perel

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Santiago Lamisovski Trio-Perel

The album features Santiago Lamisovski’s original compositions, combining written material with open improvisation and spontaneous interaction within the trio.

Andy Hamilton describes the album as:

“The music is rich and beguiling – an original and distinctive soundworld. All compositions are by Santiago Lamisovski. He is a fine, distinctive composer, whose style shows influences from Herbie Nichols and Andrew Hill.”

Nataniel Edelman – piano
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Nataniel Edelman is an  Argentine pianist and composer currently based in Bern, Switzerland, where he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Composition at  the Hochschule der Kunste Bern (HKB). He holds a degree in Jazz Piano from the Manuel de Falla  Conservatory in Buenos Aires.

In 2016,   he attended the School for Improvisational Music (SIM) at  the Brooklyn Conservatory in New York, where he studied with Ralph Alessi, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis, Tim Berne, and Michael Formanek. He has also participated in masterclasses with musicians such as Jason Moran, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Versace, and Angelica Sanchez, as well as contemporary music figures including Brian Ferneyhough, JACK Quartet, Anthony Cheung, Toni Arnold, and Amy Williams.

Edelman has performed internationally at  festivals and venues including the Winter Jazz Festival and BeJazz Transnation l Festival in Bern, New Music on the Point (Vermont), the University of Seville Festival, Centrum Kultury Lublin (Poland), Moods Gamut Festival (Zurich), Robalo Series (Lisbon), the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, the Mar del Plata Jazz Festival, and ArtHaus Centro de Musica Contemporanea (Buenos Aires), among others.

He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Michael Formanek, Michael Attias, Rudy Royston, Gerald Cleaver,   Dave Douglas, Sergio Verdinelli, Tony Malaby,  Valentin Garvie, Silvan Schmid, Chris Lightcap and Tim Berne.

As a bandleader, he has released five albums to date, developing a body of work that moves between contemporary jazz and experimental composition In 2018, he received First Prize at  the BeJazz Transnational Festival in Bern with the collective HUM,and in 2020 he was named “Pianist of the Year” by the Argentine jazz critics poll El Intruso.

Santiago Lamisovski – doublebass, composition
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Santiago Lamisovski is an Argentine double bassist and composer based in Buenos Aires, active in the
field of contemporary jazz and improvised music. He studied at the School of Contemporary Music
(formerly Berklee Global Partner) and holds a degree in JazzPerformance, specializing in double bass,
from the Manuel de Falla Conservatory.

In 2016, he was part of the School for Improvisational Music (SIM)in New York,directed by Ralph
Alessi. He also studied privately with musicians such as Michael Formanek, Ron Carter, Thomas
Morgan, and Angelica Sanchez.In 2015, He was awarded a scholarship to participate in the third
Argentine Meeting on Improvisation and Composition organized by the National Endowment for the
Arts. In 2024, he attended the International Music Creators + Collaborators Workshop on a full
scholarship, directed by Kris Davis and Angelica Sanchez,where he studied with Dave Holland and
Billy  Hart.

Lamisovski has performed extensively in Europe, New York,South America, and China. He has
appeared at major venues and festivals, including the Taihu International JazzFestival, the Buenos
Aires International JazzFestival and the Mar del Plata JazzFestival. He also performed at the Teatro
Colon. Over the past decade, he has collaborated in concerts and recordings with leading figures of
the Argentine jazzscene, including Adrian laies, Ernesto Jodos, Camila Nebbia, Luis Nacht, Mariano
Loiacono, Rodrigo Dominguez, Sergio Wagner,Valentin Garvie, Sergio Verdinelli, among others.
Internationally, he has performed with musicians such as Michael Attias, Russell Malone, Cyrus
Chestnut, Bobby Watson, Peter Bernstein, Ed Neumeister, Louis Sclavis, Victor Goines, Duane
Eubanks, Georgia Heers, and Steve Davis.

Fermín Merlo – drums

Fermin Merlo is an Argentine drummer born in Buenos Aires in 1992. He holds a degree in Jazz
Performance with a specialization in drums from the Manuel de Falla Conservatory, where he
graduated in 2013.

He has undertaken multiple study trips to New York, where he studied with musicians such as Barry
Altschul, Nasheet Waits, Andrew Cyrille, Randy Peterson, Gerald Cleaver, Joey Baron, Tony Malaby,
Angelica Sanchez, Tim Berne, and George Garzone. He was awarded scholarships by the National
Endowment for the Arts (FNA) to participate in the First and Fourth Argentine Meetings on
Improvisation and Composition (2012, 2015).

Merlo has developed an active career across Argentina and internationally, performing in a wide range
of ensembles and contexts. He has appeared at major jazz festivals in Argentina, including the
Cordoba Jazz Festival, Salta Jazz Festival, and the Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival.

Internationally, he has performed at events such as Karnaval der Kulturen (Germany), the Festival de
Contrabaixos do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Bass&Beat Festival (Poland, 2020), and the Bayerisches
Jazzweekend in Regensburg (Germany). He has also toured and performed in New York and Mexico.
His work is marked by a strong engagement with both collaborative and artist-led projects and
includes performances with musicians such as Ralph Alessi, Tony Malaby, Tim Berne, John Hollenbeck,
Mike Moreno, Michael Attias, Leo Genovese, Demian Cabaud, Camila Nebbia, Sean Conly, Kenny
Warren, Christopher Hoffman, Felix Henkelhausen, Santiago Leibson, and Julius Windisch.

Currently based in Buenos Aires, after residing for several years in Berlin, he remains active in the
contemporary jazz and improvised music scene, contributing to a broad range of projects with a focus
on collective interaction and musical exploration.

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World Music Mix: Tano Pumará(Argentina)-Album: Incierto(2022)

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Tano Pumará(Argentina)- Incierto

Tano Pumará: Incierto

The project to record the album arose during the pandemic with the idea of making a synthesis of a musical journey of many years.
The violin is the protagonist because it is the instrument that has accompanied me since I was 5 years old and, almost without intending to, the musical genres that were most present in my life began to appear: jazz, Argentine folk music, tango, Argentine rock. The result is difficult to classify within a musical genre, but these influences can be recognized.
Incierto, the title track, is a Tano Pumara original. The tune embodies Nuevo Tango (New Tango).

Tano Pumará: Violin, production, arrengements, composition.
Matías Martino: piano
Fefe Botti: Up right bass
Mono Valle: Drums

Recorded in “Estudio Bulo” by Nacho de la Riega. December 2021
Covers ilustrations: Teresita Pumará
Covers design: Marcos Novick

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World Music Mix: (sic)Trio(Argentina) – Album: Jerga(2022)

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(sic)Trio(Argentina) – Noosa
Composer: Adolfo Trepiana
Album: Jerga( ears&eyes Records, 2022)

‘Noosa’ (4:59): The final track starts with a piano intro and samples. It draws inspiration from a psychedelic experience that turned out not the way it was expected. This also happened traveling far from home days before the pandemic outbreak. This unfortunate event put a stop on that journey.

Charles Gorczynski (bandoneonist, saxist, composer and of Colorlist, Redwood Tango) says this and sums it up best: “(sic)Trio is a contemporary jazz group that integrates widespread elements from Argentine tango and Scandinavian instrumental music. Their sound is free-flowing and impressionistic, focused on exploring melodies inside of carefully crafted rhythmic environments. Tango influence is clear with both the sound of the bandoneon and the melodic focus, but tango lives in the lifeblood of the music instead of taking precedence. Instead the direction is akin to other genre-bending trio jazz projects like The Bad Plus, Dawn of Midi, Little North, Tord Gustavsen, or Girls In Airports.”

‘Jerga’ is (sic)Trio’s debut album. Just as their name suggests, there is no mistake in this trio. ‘Jerga’ comes to us as a special slang at the middle of many possible crossroads. A contemporary manifest that breaks physical barriers and unifies new expressions with a new code.
Adolfo Trepiana (bandoneon) and Noel Morroni (piano) met at the beginning of their musical careers as a part of the boiling scene of the New Tango in Buenos Aires, and have come together again, more than a decade later to record their own original music. Each established in their own composer’s path, they have joined tango expression with jazz, rock, and avant-garde with the help of the third musician in this band: drummer Nacho Coppolecchia.
Listening to this music we think of shadows that stalk us, shadows that return to us a melancholic hip hop filled with lots of air and waves of rhythm. This music lets us dive deep into the depths of watery and atemporal surfaces. We sink in the shiny eye of a Río de la Plata ‘maelström’. Inside we see a whirlpool of free reeds saying farewell to the buttons of the glowing bandoneon. The piano attacks every corner of the music staff finally flying free hand in hand with the intuitive drum-kit maneuvers.

It’s interesting to recall that many of these compositions were written aboard different cruise ships while working in the house band, battling the rigor of the seas and spanning great distances across the world.
Like Ulysses in his ever-returning odyssey, we feel suspended in air and water. We are halfway between coming back home or staying offshore. We don’t know what’s next. We are held expectant almost on trial about what is going to happen with (sic)Trio. What new metric modulation or timbre will this trio use? Maybe the track ‘Noosa’ does this best. This track makes reference to the Australian region by the sea. A beautiful journey that can go wrong and even strange. We can remember the unheimlich sense of being in a place that Freud explains in his essays. But this time, instead of a suit and tie Freud, we have an ‘arrabal’ version of him with a Nik Bärtsch shirt.
These musical waters that come vice-versa from Europe to Argentina embrace in unity. They unite in a faraway, distant, and dark echo although we can’t figure it out. There is a pure black scenario that resists the flashing lights. In it, we can find a time of presence, dialogue, and debate. This acoustic nucleus is the x in (sic)Trio’s map. A present time with a musical stereo. Past and its tradition on one side, futuristic hype (alas! the pandemic) on the other.
‘Jerga’ stands as a self-spiraled record that calls to us even when it’s talking to itself. It’s difficult to resist this fatal attraction, hard not to throw oneself in the water and risk it all. The music feels like a deus ex machina that propels us into a harmonic and melodic triangle constructed by these three Argentinians.
We can welcome this, or we can say goodbye to what we see: a purified original nostalgia.

Personnel:

Adolfo Trepiana – Bandoneon
Noel Morroni – Piano
Ignacio Coppolecchia – Drums

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Ramiro Pinheiro & Ana Rossi-Outra Era

World Music Mix: Ramiro Pinheiro & Ana Rossi(Spain)-Outra Era

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Ramiro Pinheiro & Ana Rossi(Spain)-Outra Era
Album: Vivo
Composer: Raimundo Fagner & Zeca Baleiro
Label: Brasounds Productions (2022)


Ramiro Pinheiro and Ana Rossi presents “Outra Era” (Fagner & Zeca Baleiro), the first single of their next album “Vivo” (2022).
Born in Argentina, Ana Rossi began her musical training there, playing the piano in municipal and provincial schools. In the study of singing as an instrument, she has been especially interested in the Voice Craft technique, in which she has embedded her own trajectory combined with other visions. She is currently a member of Coetus, UNA, Marcelo Mercadante and his Quinteto Porteño, BREU and Gafieira Miúda, among others.

Ramiro Pinheiro is a subtle and creative acoustic guitarist from Brazil who is also a talented songwriter. He was mostly self-taught at the beginning, learning the guitar by ear before attending the Conservatório Souza Lima in São Paulo. Pinheiro moved to Barcelona (Spain) years ago and he has been an important part of the local music scene ever since, working with a wide variety of jazz and Brazilian musicians.
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