http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-9kJg68hw
http://www.edmarcastaneda.com
http://www.myspace.com/edmarcastaneda

DMAR CASTANEDA - HARP
ITAI KRISS - FLUTE
ANDREA TIERRA - VOCAL
DAVE SILLIMAN - DRUM, PERCUSSION

Harpist, band leader and composer Edmar Castañeda was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where he started playing Colombian harp at the early age of thirteen. He has a unique style of playing harp. Combining latin and contemporary jazz with traditional Colombian music, Edmar has carved a firm place in the international jazz scene. A jazz harpist of imposing talent, he transforms the harp into a lead instrument to phenomenal effect. Producing cross-rhythms like a drummer, smashing chordal flourishes like a flamenco guitarist and collating bebop and Colombian music, he is practically a world into himself. His style is fascinatingly percussive and he plucks dynamic basslines almost invisibly while picking out melodies with his right hand.