Senogul has been nominated to the Asturian Music prizes in 4 categories. You can help us voting here: http://www.premiosamas.com/ Don't forget to confirm the vote checking your mailbox (and the spam box too, just in case). Thanks!
 
Colossus Projects & Musea Records have released a new album, based on the Decameron by Boccaccio . It's entitled Decameron: ten days in 100 novellas - Part 1 and it's a 4CD deluxe box-set, with a great design and a very complete booklet. Senogul participates with a composition for the sixth tale at day two.
Here you can find more info:
http://www.myspace.com/ colossusprojects/blog/ 544311650
http://www.musearecords.com/ ext_re_new_releaseselect.php? np=37827
 

Senogul will be playing on october 28th at 20.00 in the CMAE (Avilés), being part of a new edition of Avilés Arte Sonoro Festival.
 
Musea Records has released "Undercover", a prog covers record from the band The Samurai of Prog (Marco Bernard, Kimmo Pörsti y Steve Unruh), in which plays our keyboard player Eduardo. You can purchase it here
 
Our keyboard player Eduardo García Salueña has recently collaborated in a project called Illiad "a grand piano extravaganza" , where Homero's epic poem has been interpreted with compositions and performances by different pianists, all inspired by the chants of the book. It's a Colossus Project , a double CD released with Musea Records. You can purchase it thru this link: http://www.musearecords.com/ ext_re_new_catselect.php?np= 37214

The rest of the musicians are brilliant: David Myers ( The Musical Box ), Michele Mutti ( La torre de'll alchimista ), Andrea Cavallo ( Contrappunto Project ), Timo Kajamies , Marco Lo Muscio , Guy Le Blanc ( Camel , Nathan Mahl ), Andrew Roussak ( Dorian Opera ), Attilio Perrone , Sergey Bolotov ( Inner Drive ), Leendert Korstanje ( Lady Lake , Delay ), Octavio Stampalia , John Lönnmyr ( Simon Says , The Moor ), Paolo "Apollo" Negri ( Nice Price , The Link Quartet , Wicked Minds ), Mauro Mulas ( KTL , Entity ) e Ivan Rozmainsky ( Roz Vitalis ).

Here you have a link for a video of Eduardo , performing one of the tracks that he composed and recorded for this album. It was filmed in "Teodoro Cuesta" auditorium (Mieres), produced by Marco Castañón. We hope you enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=23QwXj8I6FM
Greetings to all Senogul friends and Happy new 2011!
 
"The tales of Edgar Allan Poe: a syNphonic collection" is the name of the new release of Musea Records, a project coordinated by Colossus Finnish association, produced by Marco Bernard. It's a double CD based on the tales & books by this North American writer, where each musician contributes with a composition inspired by one of his stories. Senogul's piece is based on "The black cat" and it's included in the first CD (track 02). 
Along with Senogul you will find other contributors like the bands: Marco Lo Muscio, La Theorie Des Cordes, Oracle, N.O.T, Dunwich, Guy Le Blanc, Jinetes Negros, Karda Estra, Jukka Kultu, Anima Morte, Blank Manuskript, Areknames, Little Tragedies, Armalite, Chansonoir, Magnetic Sound Machine y Daal.
The album is already available through Musea Official Website, following this link:
http://www.musearecords.com/ ext_re_new_releaseselect.php? np=37185
 
Senogul will play at Go Prog Fest 2010 next 23rd/24th October (Teatro-Cine, Gouveia, Portugal). The show will start at 15:00h and it will include some new tunes of our upcoming album to be released next year, apart from new arrangements of our "Aural Impressions Concerto", old tunes from our first album and some surprises. The rest of the cast is awesome: Godsticks (UK), Mats & Morgan Band (Sweden), Iva Bittová (Czech Republic), After Crying (Hungary) and Csaba Vedres & Julia Gyermán (Hungary). Hope to see many friends there! More info at: www.gaudela.net/goprog
 
New photos from our latest gigs, a new release of Disconsonancia: "Arco iris de lluvia ácida", from our guitar player Pedro A. Menchaca, and the collective work "Cani Arrabbiati: opening themes... a tribute", released by Musea, which contains our arrangement "Magari Ancora Medley", based in themes by Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli.
 
Senogul will be playing in the upcoming program "Music of the Twentieth Century" organized by Cajastur. The concert dates are already confirmed:
Gijón. Pabellón Cajastur. Recinto Ferial Luis Adaro. 06/05/10, 20h.
Oviedo. Centro Cultural Cajastur San Francisco 4. 12/05/10, 20h.
 


The Traditional Music Archive from Gijón is arranging a release about Berto “Turulla” that will also deepen into the asturian musical scene of the 70s . A book will be published next April 2010 , together with a DVD which includes a documentary directed by Roberto Berciano (Berto's brother) containing photographic material and interviews to key asturian musicians of the 70s. It also comes with a CD including some of Berto's most representative recordings, as well as a 30 minutes rehearsal recording from La Turulla . This definitely means great news for the rediscovery of Spanish progressive rock.

Senogul is currently recording a suite in honor to Berto which is based on that musical material and will be used as a musical background for the DVD's picture gallery and hemerography .

 

A few remarks about Berto “Turulla” :

His real name was Alberto Berciano . He was a keyboard player from Gijón who had a short but very active career in Asturias during the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s. Sadly, he died electrocuted in 1983 while checking a connection during one of his concerts, this being the main reason why new generations of musicians may know him.

His musical legacy is not well known although he was one of the pioneers of symphonic rock in Asturias. In fact, he was one of the first musicians to play a Minimoog in the region. He played in La Turulla (that is where his nickname comes from), an instrumental band influenced by Yes , Return To Forever and Música Urbana . The band was active just over 1977-1978 and disbanded without any official release.

He collaborated in several recordings with asturian singer-songwriters as a keyboard player and arranger, adding a prog touch to their music (such is the case of Carlos Rubiera's first albums and Xulio Ramos'). Cuélebre was his last band and the one that make him renowned in Asturias. They played melodic pop-rock mixed with asturian folk and symphonic elements. They released three LPs (featuring Berto in the first two of them) and an EP, as well as several singles ( Made in Asturies, Felices fiestas, Ave Fénix and Cuélebre ). None of that material has ever been released on CD. It is interesting to note that Ave Fénix includes a Spanish version of Games people play from Alan Parsons Project (entitled here Los juegos de la gente ).

A few days after Berto's death, a concert was held in his honor in “El Molinón” (Sporting de Gijón football stadium), this being the first time that a musical event was held in such venue. There were many musicians involved and Miguel Ríos and Victor Manuel were the main guests. The concert is still recalled by those who where there.

 

Senogul has been selected to collaborate in two releases from Colossus, the Finnish musical association well-known by its promotion of concept albums including distinguished contemporary prog-rock bands. These two projects in which Senogul is involved are "Cani Arrabbiati: opening themes, a tribute", based on 60s and 70s Italian movies soundtracks, and "The tales of Edgar Allan Poe. A syNphonic collection", with music inspired by Poe's fantastic tales. Both albums are expected to be released by Musea during 2010.

Regarding the former project, Senogul will arrange a mini-suite with the following films as references: “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Cat of Nine Tails (music by Ennio Morricone), “Ligabue” (Armando Trovajoli) and “Il Casanova” (Nino Rota). For the second project, Senogul has composed a track based on Edgar Allan Poe's tale “The Black Cat”.

For further information on both projects and meeting all the artists involved in them, please follow these links:

Cani Arrabbiati

Edgar Allan Poe
 

Our website has been thoroughly updated:

•  New pictures and reviews are available.

•  A new section has been created devoted to “ Disconsonacia ”, an artistic project which encompasses bands featuring members of Senogul.

•  We also have a new contact email (info@senogul.com) and you can find a thorough dossier of the band in section “ Contact & booking “.

•  Senogul welcomes a new member, Sergio Guillén (co-author of both volumes of “Radiografía del rock experimental”), as our manager .

•  The band is composing and has already recorded new material for a future album , which will include some prestigious collaborations, as well as plenty of surprises…

 

From 25 th June to 14 th Match 2010, the stereoscopic photography exhibition A trip in 3D . Stereoscopic pictures of transportation in Asturias ( 1900 - 2008 ) will be displayed at Pueblo de Asturias Museum , in Gijón . This one consists of a 20 minutes audiovisual performance with 80 pictures from the beginning of the 20th Century, together with 3D pictures from Asturias taken nowadays. The music for the exhibition has been composed by Senogul and features extracts from both albums the band has released so far. Musical edition has been managed by Eduardo G. Salueña , the band's keyboard player. This performance has been organised by Pueblo de Asturias Museum in collaboration with the Area of Graphic Expression in Engineering from Oviedo University , with economic support from cajAstur and CEHOPU (Centre for Historic Studies of Public Works and Planning from the Ministry of Public Works). You can watch the video by clicking here.

 

Our new CD entitled Concierto de Evocación Sonora para Conjunto Instrumental (Aural Impressions Concert for Instrumental Ensemble) will be released under margen Records on February 16 th 2009 . At the same time, and as a special gift for our friends and fans, a LIMITED and NUMBERED 50 copies special edition will also be released. Each copy will be personally dedicated, signed by the band members and identified by a dry seal, but the price will still be the same as for the standard edition: 13.50€, shipping costs not included.

For those interested in acquiring a special edition CD, you can already place a hold by sending an email to reservasenogul@margenmusic.com
Copies of the standard edition can be ordered through your usual record dealer.
 

Senogul's self-titled album will be released as a double LP under Kankana Records, as part of their selection of contemporary Spanish prog rock LP releases. Such double LP will be released over the first quarter of 2009 and will be available at Discos Pat.