Anxo Lorenzo
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Anxo Lorenzo is a musician who plays the gaita
Gaita
Gaita may refer to:Musical instruments*Various types of bagpipes common to Spain and Portugal such as:** Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria...

, the traditional Galician bagpipe, from Moaña
Moaña
Moaña is a municipality of 18,709 inhabitants located in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.It is one of the five municipalities with Bueu, Cangas do Morrazo, Marin and Vilaboa that forms the peninsula of O Morrazo...

 (Tirán), a small village on the Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Ocean
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 of Galicia (Spain
Spain
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).

Is a new breed of musician who sees no barriers when experimenting with traditional and contemporary music and has the ability of seamlessly amalgamating the two into vibrant, fresh and new melodies and rhythms.

Anxo has managed to fuse the unadulterated natural sound of the Gaita (Galician Bagpipes) with a wide variety of alternative music styles such as: Rock, Pop, Jazz, Flamenco, Chill Out, Hip-Hop and electronic, converting the Gaita into an avant-garde instrument without giving-up his celtic roots.

Career

Anxo has collaborated with what reads like a Who is Who of the music world, from the pure traditional folk scene to jazz, not forgetting rock, pop and electronic genres, such as Skape
Skape
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, Celtas Cortos
Celtas Cortos
Celtas Cortos is a Spanish music group of celtic rock.It was formed in Valladolid in 1986. Eight friends, four of which played in the group Almenara decided to participate in a music contest under the name "Colectivo Eurofolk"...

, Lunasa
Lúnasa
Lúnasa can refer to:* Lúnasa , a traditional Irish band from Ireland** Lúnasa , the first album released by Lúnasa in 1998* Lughnasadh, a Gaelic holiday* Lúnasa, the Irish language word for the month of August....

, Kathryn Tickell
Kathryn Tickell
Kathryn Tickell is an English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. She has recorded over a dozen albums, and toured widely.-Life and career:...

, Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick is a flute and tin whistle player. He also plays the Uilleann pipes and low whistle. He is well known for his ability to skate switch and regular with the same level of ability.-Bands:...

, The Chieftains
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

, Daimh, The National Jazz Orchestra, Luigi Lai, Diarmaid Moynihan, Brian Finnegan
Brian Finnegan
Brian Finnegan is a tin whistle and flute player from Armagh, Northern Ireland.Finnegan first came to public attention with the Irish group Upstairs in a Tent, and then in 1993 he made a solo album "When the Party's Over", which was recorded at Redesdale Studios. From 1995 he played with Flook, ....

, Dervish
Dervish
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, Jaula de Grillos, Tejedor
Tejedor
Tejedor is a folk music group from Avilés, Asturias, Spain, consisting of three siblings . Tejedor's members play traditional Asturian styles of music using traditional instruments such as bagpipes, flutes, accordions and guitars....

, Angus Mackenzie, Iain MacDonald, Germán Díaz, Jarlath Henderson, Ross Ainslie, Andy May
Andy May
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, Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison is one of the world's leading pipers and is a globally renowned composer of music for the bagpipes.Morrison is known for his unique, powerfully exuberant, virtuosic and highly improvisational style which combines the Gaelic piping tradition of South Uist with contemporary and eclectic...

, Mónica Molina, Amistades Peligrosas
Amistades Peligrosas
Amistades Peligrosas was a Spanish band formed in 1989 by singers Alberto Comesaña from Galicia and Cristina del Valle from Asturias. Their music blended two Spanish Music types such as Celtic and Arab which is part of Spanish history and culture. Bagpipes, flute and bouzouki are common...

, Xarabal, Om/Off, Poncho K and Spiritu 986.

As a classically trained musician, soloist and composer Anxo continues with his research into various fields of music and gives master classes all over the world.

Wide-eared and adventurous bagpiper

If you thought bagpipes were solely confined to Scotland
Scotland
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 and Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, Anxo Lorenzo will prove otherwise.

For not only is the instrument found throughout Europe
Europe
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, it's also travelled as far afield as North Africa
North Africa
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 and the Persian Gulf
Persian Gulf
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.

Anxo himself represents the open-eared piping faction to be found in Galicia on Spain's Atlantic coast. It's a region with close and indisputable links with the Celtic world; indeed, Anxo can name Irish music titans like The Chieftains and Lunasa among his more notable collaborators.

The plumpness of his contacts book emphasises that this is a man who is not strictly faithful to his home territory's traditions, preferring to skip freely across borders and genres, while also perfectly at ease with extending beyond the acoustic world.

And he's an exhilarating performer, his fast fingers tracing ridiculously intricate melodies; when top gear is reached, it's impossible to fathom how a human brain can actually work that fast.

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