JORGE ALBERTO MANCINI
Musician, composer, teacher, researcher, producer of cycles, was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied guitar and ethnomusicology at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory. He has been operating
since 1977. He was part of groups, playing different musical genres: rock, classical, folklore, jazz; being free jazz and
contemporary music the genres that lead him to free improvisation and the search for sounds through
acoustic and electronic means. In 1983, he meets the saxophonist Marcelo Peralta, with whom the «Grupo de Improvisación Tercer
Mundo» is formed, together with Mariana Potenza (saxes) and Victor Da Cunha (drums and percussion).
In 1991, he begins his searches as a soloist, and in 1993, he meets Andrea Fasani (plastic artist), with whom he experiments and develops performance art. In 1993, he launches the cycle «Los Desconciertos de Mancini» at the Club de Arte, which would be the first of several cycles, the last being «Instantes Sonoros en Domus Artis» together with the pianist Fabiana Galante in 2007. In the process of sharing with musicians and other arts, he meets the drummer Carlos Mastrangelo, who invites him to be part of this trio with Germán Jeselsohn. The experience of flowing and enjoying, was recorded in this album, and marked a relationship that continues today in the group «Noisotros» with Fernando Gallardo.

GERMAN JESELSOHN
He was born on October 13th, 1961, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At the age of 7, he began studying Argentine folklore in Creole guitar, piano and aerophones.
At the age of 14, he took his first lessons in electric bass.
At age 17, he took his first double bass private lessons.
Jazz techniques and harmony at the Walter Malosetti School. (1982-1984)
Electric bass- Technique – Harmony. Carlos Madariaga. (1984)
Electric bass- Technique – Harmony – Improvisation. Maximo Rodriguez. (1990-1994)
Double bass- Jazz technique – Improvisation. Pablo Vasquez. (2003-2006)
He has interacted musically with artists of Argentine and Latin American folklore, visiting the most
important stages of the field; in parallel, he develops as an improviser, interacting with free
improvisation and free jazz artists in their existing fields.
He currently keeps both musical genres alive, has 7 solo albums published by European labels, in which
he shows the deep connection of his improvisation with indigenous roots.
It is a blessing, and certainly understood as inexorable, his meeting with great masters such as Carlos
Mastrangelo and Jorge Mancini, with whom he begins this wonderful journey that resulted in “Sombras
Chinas”.

CARLOS MASTRANGELO
(Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
He studies music at the Manuel de Falla Superior Conservatory, takes drum lessons with Eduardo Casalla, Nino Dossena, Antonio Yepes (as an audit student). Among other groups he was a member of “La Nueva Trova Bahiana” (Salvador Bahia) Brazil, of “LAPUMA” (trio), “Alcides Larrosa” (trio). Inclined from an early age towards the free music of jazz and other styles of ritual ethnic origin.
He later meets Jorge Mancini and Germán Jeselsohn, when he organizes in 2004, the cycle: “ABISMAL” in IMPA La Fábrica, dedicated entirely to the «Nuevas Músicas» held every Friday of that year until Friday, December 31st.
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