Laboratorio Ñ was an initiative of the Spanish musicians
Iván Ferreiro
Iván Ferreiro Rodríguez (born 15 August 1970) is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Vigo, Galicia. He was the voice, leader and composer of the popular pop-rock band Los Piratas.
Career
After Los Piratas split, by late 2003, Iván kept pl ...
(ex member of
Los Piratas
Los Piratas was a Spanish rock band from Vigo, founded in 1991. They were considered one of the most influential groups in the pop and rock scenes in Spain. They released five studio albums (one of them a gold record), two live albums, three ...
),
Quique González and
Xoel López
Xoel López (born 12 August 1977) is a Spanish alternative rock musician, formerly known as Deluxe, from A Coruña, Galicia.
Early in his career, López sang in English, but has since released albums in Spanish. In a 2017 interview witJot Down Ló ...
(
Deluxe
Deluxe may refer to:
Corporations
* Deluxe Corporation, check printers
* De Luxe Motor Car Company, an American automobile manufacturer
Media and entertainment
* DeLuxe Color, a brand of color photography used in motion pictures, especially t ...
), that took part between 8th and 22 November 2005. These musicians met in the house-musical study ''El Cielito'', 30 km from
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata ...
, to compose music together. Some other musicians also took part: from Spain
Amaral and
Pereza
Pereza (Spanish for “laziness”) was a Spanish rock group from Alameda de Osuna (Madrid) comprising Rubén Pozo Prats and José Miguel Conejo Torres, artistically known as Rubén and Leiva. They have recorded six albums ''Pereza'', ''Algo para ...
, and from
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...
(
Bersuit
Bersuit Vergarabat is an Argentine rock band that formed formally in 1987.
History
The previous name of the band (from 1987 to May 1989) was ''Henry y la Palangana''. By the end of 1989, the band had changed name several times, adopting nonse ...
, which was only for the welcome,
Súper Ratones
Súper Ratones (in English ''The Super Mice'') is a musical group of Argentine rock and pop style from Mar del Plata and established in 1985.
History
This group was born in the city of Mar del Plata in 1985 to José Luis "Person" Properzi ...
and
Lisandro Aristimuño
Lisandro Aristimuño is a musician and singer-songwriter from Argentina. His music combines rock, pop and electronica with traditional genres like Argentinian folk music. ), but nevertheless the initial plan the only musicians really involved were the promoters of the lab. The project was a collaboration with
SGAE
The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (''Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE'') is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain. It is similar to AGADU, ASCAP, GEMA, SADAIC, SACEM and S ...
.
References
* # 74 of the magazine Efe Eme (December 2005)
* # 74 of the Rolling Stone, Spanish edition (December 2005)
External links
Laboratorio Ñ Blog
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Spanish music
Argentine music