Artist description Passionate music, from the heart, that's all about The vibrant rhythms of Spain, the rumba's of Latin America, dark gypsy Flamenco and Latin Jazz improvisations, that's the music that defines Eugenio! With his excellent techique, he combines diferent styles of music in a style of his own, passionate and brilliant.

Music Style Acoustic fusion / guitar music - Spanish, Latin, Jazz and Flamenco

Musical Influences Mostly guitar players

Similar Artists Paco de lucia, Al di Meola, John mcLaughlin

Artist History Eugenio is a shelf-thaught musician wich developed his own technique over the years.Traveling trough Europe, living out of music for the past 7 years, he performed in small venues(Tapas bars and small theaters) where he learned to sing and developed a beautifull and original style of playing the guitar Eugenio possesses an admirabile technique and a particulary expresive clarity of tone in his solos. Eugenio's music is is a mixture of melancolic and brutal emotions. Eugenio simply loves music. Enthusiastically he studies it, lives it and plays it.

Group Members Eugenio Martinez- Rhythm Guitar and solo guitar Laura Martinez-Additional latin percussion Uldiss Krumis-Keyboards, Jolanda Verheul- Congas

Instruments Guitar, vocals, congas, solo guitar, castagnettes, palmas, etc

Albums Gitano Corazon

Press Reviews Guitar 9 -...."Guitarist Eugenio and his percussionist/manager Laura Martinez submitted a nine song CD entitled: Gitano Corazon" Working from a base in Holland, the duo's music is defined by the vibrant rhythms of Spain, the rumbas of Latin America, dark gypsy Flamenco and Latin Jazz improvisations. In addition to the original pieces, the album features a blazing flamenco style version of Rimsky's Korsakov "Flight of the Bumblebee". Eugenio has the ability to play clearly evecuted passages with passion and each composition has its virtuosic moments. He is also not afraid to mix musical genere's - the song "Reggae" has a Jamaican/Spanish feel, while "Desert Storm" blends Flamenco with Middle Eastern scales ideeas......Eugenio has the ability to play guitar using fingerstyle techniques (as in classical and flamenco styles) as well as highlly advanced regular picking techniques (as in Rock and Jazz music).......This is a talented pair who are doing a fine job expanding the Flamenco vocabulary both live and on record"( read all at: http://www.guitar9.com/undiscov31d.html) Spits Magazine: (NL) ....." The Euro festival starts today on the program " Man bijt Hond " on Nederland 1. A song festival in which 12 musicians comming originaly from the 12 Euro countryes will musically compete for the honor of composing the song that will represent the Euro and United Europe. After a serious selection, and out of countless packages sended in, they have been elected 12 very talented musicians/groups. Today Eugenio and Laura Martinez from Spain (duo Alegria) will present their song......" Popgids A'dam:......"Eugenio is a brilliant guitarist who allready winned many prices for his music, one of the fastest acoustic players at the momment. Influenced by a generation of guitar players like Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola and John mcLaughlin, he bringhs virtuous guitartechniques and combines them with old and new rhythms in an innovating new formula......."

Additional Info New CD

Location Amsterdam, Noord Holland - Netherlands

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