News:
10-05-2007:
Jose Luis Santander informs me that he is currently recording with his band, the Leprechauns Project. During May he will be playing with the bans in a concert at the The Escuela Moderna de Musica. This Saturday he aslo playing with Clive Nolan from Pendragon here in Santiago, Chile. Pendragon one of my favourite prog bands...although I lost touch as I painted myself into a corner with this guitar stuff...LOL!...
I had to look...this is a full track from Pengragon, The Black Knight
" Damp moss like a carpet in a homefrom brand new DVD "A Rush Of Adrenaline"...fantastic!!...I might just have to buy the DVD and start up a prog blog site!!
Autumn leaves like a bed on a sea of foam
Birds for friends, who could wish for more
But he gets lonely on his own"
Anyback to Jose...The English version of his web site remains in production, but there is a lot of info in the Spanish one...This includes material from the Leprechauns in 2004.
video 1
video 2
and find video of pop projects and some instructionals of technique and jazz harmony on his media page.
video 3
video 4
video 5
video 6
07-05-2007:
Todos los Sueños del Mundo
05-10-2006:
Jose pointed me to one of his tracks, which won the first Electric Guitar Contest in Santiago, two years ago. The track features impressive legato guitar and keyboard interplay: Encuentro Inesperado
03-10-2006:
Some video on YouTube
Cuatro Paredes Subterra
Bomba de Tiempo
Alfabeto
Background:
Jose Luis is born day 10 of November of 1976 in Santiago of Chile. He started playing keyboard at the age of 7. He discovered guitar at the age of 12. He was haevily influenced by Slash, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots and Nuno Bettencourt.
After studying architecture, in 1997, he studied with guitarist Alexander Silva. His music influences moved to Dream Theater, Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse and Steve Vai.
Prgoress was difficult and with the help of his parents, in 2001, he begin formal studies in the Modern School of Music with professor Edison Belmar. He travellled to Boston's Berklee College of Music. He took classes with David Fiuczynski, John Finn and John Wilkins.
Find out more at his web site:
music tips, discography , mp3 and video
Jose Luis is currently member of the Progressive Rock Band Subterra and the Pop Band Kudai
ReplyDeletehttp://www.subterra.org
http://www.kudai.cl
and his own band Leprechaun´s Project.
He is playing this Saturday in the Electric Guitar Contest´s Final of the escuela Moderna de Musica in Chile.
saludos