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ABOUT SINGING
I sing when everything else fails. By singing, I somehow recover from whatever ails me. Maybe that's why most of my tunes have a melancholic air to them. I believe in music's healing power, and I'm looking for some kind of communication with those who, like myself, enjoy breathing, no matter how painful it may get. These songs are for me, and of course, for you.

TRAIL EP (2009)
The German-Japanese Music Label Intervall-Audio has released the Trail EP with six of my songs, re-mastered, cleaned and ready to be shared for free, under a Creative Commons license. The beautiful artwork for the cover was designed by the über-talented Rafa Zubiria [WEB]. The complete booklet is also available to download from the Intervall-Audio website [here].

I'm very thankful with Stan for his endurance and caring persistence, and with Rafa for the unexpected joy he's brought to my eyes.

OTHER SONGS

tentative d'évasion is a poem by Jean Cocteau.
BARTOK*YO is a series of de-arrangements on one of my favourites composers: Bartok.
tanto monta, monta tanto, like a fleeting dream, has been left as a sketch.
RABANO is my name spelled backwards, which means radish in Spanish. It's a collection of unfinished songs, mostly using acoustic instruments.

THE OLD ONES
andrei is a sigh that came out after I saw Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia". The voice on this track was recorded only once, without any rehearsal or previous plan.
In cold there is very little arrangement, little composition and little lyrics. The background sound was recorded from my window, during a storm in rainy season.
ferrequiem is my homage to Luc Ferrari and nioi is just a scent.

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Thanks for the attention, curiosity and patience. I'm always looking for people to work with, so please get in touch if you think we can collaborate somehow.

 

GIGS + PERFORMANCES

PRIMER CABARET LITERARIO 2009, Mapa Teatro
Désert, J.-M.G. Le Clézio
with Heidi & Rolf Abderhalden

March 19th 2009 (Thu)
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ELECTRODOMESTICACIONES [SILENCIO] Y ANTEJARDINES
matik-matik

with Lezrod and Daniel Prieto
February 5th 2008 (Thu)

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ELECTRODOMESTICACIONES
Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño

Calle 11 No. 3-16, Bogotá
December 2nd (Tue) 7 p.m.
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CABARET COCTEAU
June 12, 2008 (Thu) 7:00p.m.
Mapa Teatro, Bogotá
with Sol Okarina Suárez and Carlos "Champi" Benavides


June 13th, 2008 (Fri)
Hacienda Arroyo Hondo, Cali

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FESTIVAL USB
April 20th 2007(Friday)
The video for the electro-domestic piece "Fuzzy" will be screened at the Festival USB. More info here.

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DIFUSSED RESONANCE
Sound intervention in the exhibition "Carbono 14" by Javier Cuellar, Rafael Gomez and AudinoDiaz. With Mauricio Alvarez.
Galeria La Cometa, Bogota
July 13th - Aug. 13th 2006

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EL DIA DEL ROBOT v5
Medellin, Colombia

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TEATRINO VIVO - Miercoles Virtual
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater.
March 22nd 2006
Performance with Diego Taborda, Sylvia Jaimes, Mancel Martinez and Mauricio Alvarez. Real time multimedia!

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SMETENAN + NOBARA
Live at Candelario Bar, Bogota
March 4th (Sat) 9 pm

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CICLOVIA NOCTURNA
Voice decoration on Keyboard's electronic music. Images by Diego Taborda and sound engineering by Champi, from fonoespacio.
El Virrey Park, Bogota
15.12.05 (Thu) from 8:30 pm

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*PINK NOISE*
[Experimental Organic Cuisine + Japanese Pink Films + Noise]
Voice improvisation with Nicolas Rico
Alambique: Calle 9 # 2-23 La Candelaria, Bogota

Oct. 28th 2005

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IMPROVISACIONES EN EL MAPA
Voice improvisation with Ruidobello (laptop and contact mics) at Mapa Teatro, Bogota -Colombia
Aug. 2005

 

DOWNLOADS

Currently working on:
dos pájaros

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TRAIL EP


an Intervall-Audio release
You can download the whole album (artwork + booklet included) from here

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TENTATIVE D'ÉVASION
Music for the Cabaret Cocteau
maladie
fruto

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Tanto Monta, Monta Tanto

BARTOK*YO
Thinkin' of Bartok as a gipsy
Playing the Walachian Game
Singing the Walachian Game

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trail instrumental

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RABANO
ikuna
akai

(more at myspace)

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ARCHIVE OF OLD TUNES
andrei
cold
fenneziana
ferrequiem
nioi

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last

More songs at purevolume and myspace
All kinds of comments are welcome
nobara@nousense.org

All songs composed, arranged -if ever- and sang by Nobara Hayakawa