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Spanish traditional music with unusual instruments<\/span><\/h3>\n

Feten Feten<\/span> is much more than the musical project of Jorge Arribas and Diego Galaz, it\u2019s the language of the soul in harmony. The first notes were heard in 2009 out of the necessity of these two musicians from Burgos to \u201csoundtrack\u201d their influences and memories. Feten Feten\u2019s music is a path through the memory of our roots and traditions. Their compositions guide us, using dance rhythms, through the fox-trot, the waltz, the chotis (traditional dance music of Madrid), seguidillas (music and dance piece in a fast triple rhythm) or habaneras, making us sway with their chords on the Iberian Peninsula and making us fly from Italy to Japan or from Argentina to Portugal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offer a contemporary interpretation of traditional music and folk dance music, styles that inspire us and that we want to honor using our imagination and creativity. We are two lovers of unusual musical instruments, that\u2019s why in our shows, in addition to conventional instruments like the violin or the accordion, we play weird instruments such as saws, trumpet violins, phono violins or the camping chair flute.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The result is a fresh and original music suitable for dancing and having fun as you listen to beautiful waltzes, fox trots, chotis, jotas, seguidillas, rondas, pasodobles or habaneras.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a live performance of instrumental melodies that goes back to our roots and adds renewed musical nuances that recall the different European and South American landscapes that Fet\u00e9n Fet\u00e9n has visited while on tour.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a musical journey that conveys us from the Iberian Peninsula to exotic lands, assimilating Balkan echoes, manouches sounds, Japanese evocations, the cries of seagulls and even the sound of the waves.<\/p>\n

The original compositions of Fet\u00e9n Fet\u00e9n, a variety of musical trends, manage to make the audience smile with evocative sounds and titles like \u201cThe Wasabi Jota,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve seen a bear in the Carpathians,\u201d \u201cFandango de Atapuerca,\u201d or \u201cSwing in a fricass\u00e9e.\u201d It\u2019s a repertoire that amuses and thrills both children and adults alike, since this music tells stories without words and blends well with audiences either in big concert halls or in the open air.<\/p>\n

They have played in over 1000 concerts across the Iberian peninsula and have participated in important festivals such as Pirineos Sur, Folk Segovia, Tres Culturas, Madrid Folk, Facyl, Cl\u00e1sicos en Alcal\u00e1, Noches y Almenas, Actual, etc. In 2010, they started the first of their international tours in places like Costa Rica (Arts Festival), Nicaragua, Belgium (Marni Jazz Festival Brussels) Argentina, Morocco (Instituto Cervantes), Latvia, Estonia (Viljandi Folk Music Festival), Slovenia (Keltina Festival), Slovakia, Germany, Tunisia, Austria (International Accordion festival), Portugal, UK and USA.<\/p>\n

Since beginning their journey in 2009 by means of micro-sponsorship, the duo has self-produced the albums “Fet\u00e9n Fet\u00e9n” (2011) and “Bailables” (2014). In 2016 “Cantables” arrived, an album in which they incorporate both voice and lyrics to their musical compositions, including artists such as Fito Cabrales, Jorge Drexler, Julieta Venegas or Natalia Lafourcade, among others. In 2018, they published “Overseas Melodies”, a self-produced album in which they suggest that we accompany them on the trips they have made over the seas and oceans that unite each of the locations this original group has visited. These are places in which they have been nourished by different rhythms and musical styles, with these two original artists reinventing the way we understand popular music.<\/p>\n

In September of 2021, with the help of composer and producer Sabastian Schon, “Cantables II” (“Singables”) was released, an album that, once again, adds lyrics and singers to their melodies. That original creative exercise, which materialized in 2016 as a kind of first presentation now, has given way to a second “installment” in this album published by “Madame Vodevil”.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the music commission for the Spanish Network of Theaters, Auditoriums, Circuits and Festivals of public ownership included their show in the “Recommended Music” Notebook. In 2020, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) has included Fet\u00e9n Fet\u00e9n in the catalog of artists who represent our country in cultural programs abroad.<\/p>\n

Currently, in addition to the live concerts, they also do a series of school programs and composition for documentaries and short films (TVE, Aitor Gutirerrez …). Collaborations with internationally renowned artists (Jorge Drexler, Pasi\u00f3n Vega, DePedro, Rozal\u00e9n, Javier Ruibal, Pedro Pastor, etc.), participation as guests in the 20th anniversary tour of Fito & Fitipaldis, and the show \u201cPret\u00e9rito Imperfecto\u201d (recently released in collaboration with journalist Nieves Concostrina) complete the panorama of this versatile duo.<\/p>\n

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Diego Galaz<\/strong><\/span>: Violin, trumpet violin, phonoviol\u00edn, saw, mandolin, seagulls and\u2026 cows.<\/p>\n

Jorge Arribas<\/strong><\/span>: Accordion, camping chair flute, vulture\u2019s wing, flute, castanet and\u2026 cowbell.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1750844524388{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-color: #f0f0f0 !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”10042″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_row ct_row_stretch=””][vc_column]

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What the press says\u2026<\/h5><\/div><\/div>
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