El Guincho is Pablo D'az-Reixa. He was born in the Canary Islands (Spain). He went to music school as a kid but then left at the age of 14 to become a soccer or tennis star. Fortunately, he failed at both! After a year of touring with the band Coconot in 2006, he came up with the idea of El Guincho and recorded Alegranza to much acclaim with the media and fans. It was released in the late December 2007 and went out of print in Spain in less than a month. His popularity is rising to heady heights all around the world. Thanks to constant blog posts and word of mouth the record topped the lists of the most important Spanish music magazines.
Alegranza is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicýlia, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production.
El Guincho's live set is a unique experience too. People call it "amazonic rave" and they are right. Just his voice, a floor tom, some percussions and his Pandora's box of samplers. Truly mind blowing and 200% danceable. |