Original work and living
traditional repertoire.
Original composition and recorded Asturian tradition. Available on streaming; direct sales coming soon.
Two formats,
one gaita.
Each format answers a different setting. Tell me yours and I'll prepare the show to fit.
Traditional
Gaita-and-drum duo, bandina or folk ensemble. The Asturian gaita on home ground: fiestas, romerías, festivals and celebrations.
Concert-talk
Gaita and piano, educational concerts and gaita with a pop-rock band for festivals. And the talk: innovation rooted in tradition.
Plain talk, no fuss.
I write about the gaita, Asturian traditional music and the Atlantic arc for beginners and for those who already play. Knowledge meant to be shared, not hoarded.
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EssayThe Gaiteru Llibardón: the first Asturian gaita record
Who the Gaiteru Llibardón was, the Asturian piper who recorded the first Asturian gaita record in 1909 and took the instrument to the world's fairs of Paris, Buenos Aires and Barcelona. Why his figure still marks the path for anyone who today takes the gaita beyond Asturies.
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EssayThe payuela, the soul of the Asturian gaita
Why the Asturian gaita's payuela has the length it has, explained from Pelayo Fernández's 2014 analysis, with the real case of the C punteru. And why making and fitting your own payuela was, for generations, a skill as necessary as playing itself.
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EssayThe photo that named the school
I thought I already knew everything my family name meant. While researching a piece on the musicians of the valley, I found a photo that changed my mind — and ended up naming something I had just founded.
Moving forward
from tradition.
I started playing in 1998, taught by Manolo Quirós, and I never stopped. Between 2007 and 2024 I was part of the Banda Gaites Camín de Fierro; today I compose, record and teach from Asturies, and I take the gaita where it isn't expected: from ceremonial repertoire to the production studio.
I look to the whole Atlantic family of the gaita —Galicia, Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Cape Breton— but I start from here. It's not world music or folk fusion: it's roots Asturian gaita in dialogue with the Atlantic arc.