MARTIN ROBBIO TRIO.
In the search of a new and original sound, the trio mixes ingredients coming from Jazz music, with South American folk sounds: from the first one, they take the improvisation; from the second one, the rhythm. Starting with the pianist Martin Robbio’s compositions, the three musicians try to reach, in their music, spaces where the hearing, and the dialogue between the instruments, can come in the first place and be the main idea in the proposal, that it’s based in rhythms like Argentineans “chacarera” and “milonga”, Uruguayan “candombe”, Brazilian “samba”, among others.
Respecting the South American popular music tradition, but trying to leave new traces, the trio explores new territories where the search is the consonance of the ideas offered by the different instruments, that can reach moments of understanding and union trying to reach a high musicality, declining the individual exhibition. The search is a collective one, trying to transmit with honesty and responsibility the emotions of the music. All theses components, talks about the trio, whose music is not here to imitate or cheer up, but it has something to say.
Nowadays, the trio is presenting the compositions of their first album “Parresia”, (entirely recorded at “Casa Frida” Studios and edited in 2012), and the new album “El mismo río”, edited in 2015 and selected as month´s best album in Club del Disco.
MEMBERS:
Martín Robbio, (1984). Pianist and composer. Graduate from the “Escuela de Música Popular del Sadem” (Sadem’s Popular music school). Also studied personally with Nicolás Ledesma (tango), Nora Sarmoria (south Amercian music), Enrique Norris (jazz), Pollo Raffo (harmony) and Hernán Ríos (improvisation). Since 2006, he is a member of the “Orquesta de Música Sudamericana” (South American music Orchestra) directed by Nora Sarmoria and he is a stable member of Amelita Baltar’s orchestra. He has made several tours around the interior of Argentina, and around Uruguay, Colombia and Europe.
Juan Fracchi (1979), double bass player and composer. Graduate from the “ITMC”. He also studied with Juan Elias (skills and orchestral repertoire), Guillermo Delgado (jazz and improvisation), Ernesto Jodos (assemble and improvisation), Claudio “Pino” Enriquez (tango) and Miguel A. Villarroel (skills). As a member of the tango trio “Cuesta Arriba” he recorded three albums (Invisibles 2009, Sin seguro 2007 and La carroña 2005) and he made 7 European tours, between 2005 and 2012. h recorded several compositions of his own: Ida (2009) and Correspondencia (2006) all of them together with the band “Menos Tres” and the record Cualquier Cosa (2008) along with the band “Los Mesinos”. He colaborated on the records Ese asunto de la ventana (2005) y Azules turquesas (2004) made by the Argentinean componer Lisandro Aristimuño. He participated in many seasons and festivals all over Argentina and out of the conuntry. Nowadays he is a member of the band “Cauces” as a double bass player and composer, also a member of the Ariel Hernandez quintet and the Florencia Ruiz’s band.
Ariel Sánchez (1985), drummer and percussionist. Graduate from the “ITMC”. He has also studied with Carlos Riganti, Alejandro Varela, Oscar Giunta, Daniel "Pipi" Piazzolla and Facundo Ferreira. He participates with the folloeing bands and musicians: Lucrecia Longarini, Mónica Abraham, Ángela Irene, Marcelo and Hugo Dellamea, Néstor Acuña, Dos más Uno trio togehter with the Dellamea brothers. He has made several tours around Argentina and Europe, and has participated in the most important music festivals in Argentina.
MARTÍN ROBBIO
Martín initiated his piano lessons when he was 12 years old. Since 1998 he has played in several scenarios, and has played and recorded in different popular music projects. He studied in “TAMBA” (1996-200), the “Manuel de Falla” conservatory, and he is Graduate from the “Escuela de Música Popular del Sadem” (Sadem’s Popular music school). Since then, he has also studied personally with Nicolás Ledesma (tango), Nora Sarmoria (south Amercian music), Enrique Norris (jazz), Pollo Raffo (harmony) and Hernán Ríos (improvisation).
During 2007, he recorded his first solo album with original piano and duets music, named “que me importa que se rian” where he plays tangos, zambas, milongas, among others.
Since its formation in 2007, he is a member, as a pianist, of the “Orquesta de Música Sudamericana” (South American music Orchestra) directed by Nora Sarmoria, with who he recorded two albums and periodically plays with big musicians of the size of Liliana Herrero, Carlos Aguirre, Lilián Saba, Quique Sinesi and Hugo Fattoruso, among others.
He has being playing alive since 1998 and has played with well known musicians such as Ariel Hernández, Vitillo Ábalos, Hernán Ríos, Facundo Guevara, Juan Subirá, Enrique Norris, Fernando Ruiz Díaz, Omar Mollo, Raúl Carnota, Vicky Zotalis and Nora Sarmoria, among others. He has recorded many albums with the following bands and musicians: Sinviola, Sebastián Barbui, Alimaña, Orquesta Sudamericana and Amelita Baltar, to whom he has been a stable musician since 2011 and has recorded in her album, El nuevo rumbo (winner of the Gardel award in 2013 in the “tango category”), where he played with big stars such as Fito Páez and Luis Alberto Spinetta, among others.
He has made several tours around Europe (Basilea, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid), Colombia (Teatro Mayor), Uruguay and the interior of Argentina and has played in the most important theatres in Buenos Aires (Ópera, La Trastienda, Sha, IFT, Torcuato Tasso, among others).
PARRESÍA
“Parresía” is the title of the first album recorded by the trio integrated by Martín Robbio (piano and composition), Ariel Sánchez (drumms and percussion) and Juan Fracchi (double-bass), entirely recorded alive at the Casa Frida Studios in deceember, 2011. Edited by Epsa Music, the album has special contributions by important local musicians, such as Nora Sarmoria, Hernán Ríos, Ariel Hernández, Enrique Norris and Facundo Guevara.
In the ancient Greece, “parresía” ment “speak freely” or “frankly”. Speaking with the obligation of orienting the truth to the common good, the freedom, the honesty, that makes us say what we have to say, in the way that we want to say it, whenever we want to say it, and in the way we feel necessary to say it. The word “parresía” is bound to several things: the freedom of election, the decission, the attitude of the one that is speaking, all of them things that the latins translated with the word “libertas”. In the trio work, the three musicians try to reach spaces where the hearing, and the dialogue between the instruments, can come in the first place and be the main idea in the proposal.
Parresía has fourteen pieces, all of them compositions made by Martín Robbio, that have as rhythmic base structures, south American popular music rhythms such as Argentineans “chacarera” and “milonga”, Uruguayan “candombe”, Brazilian “samba”, among others. The conceptual idea is mixing these rhythms with the trio improvisation. The album was presented during several seasons and festivals in different venues in Buenos Aires City, with the company of several special guests. The album was selected by the “Club del disco” (Disc Club) and recommended in the media; It is also on sale in several disc shops all over Argentina, and in Japan.
