Dani de Baza, a bugle sounding within the coronary heart of New York: “He does not simply make music for Easter”

He was 14 years previous when he first picked up a bugle. Since then Dani de Baza has change into his best defender. He has taken her out of brotherly music, he has accompanied her to seek out different rhythms and different audiences. With her he has traveled to China and together with her he has simply conquered New York, the place he has recorded her newest single, Liberty, which has simply been launched.

“As a baby I used to be blown away watching the bugle play within the brotherhood bands,” says Dani. At that point, he was in Baza and he got here to kind his personal band with buddies to study to play it. It was known as the Band of Drums and Trumpets of Our Lady of Hope of Baza. The band disappeared, however Dani stored enjoying.

He quickly made the leap to Granada. “I’ve at all times been transferring in bands,” explains Dani, who quickly traveled along with his cornet to Seville the place he performed it for a few years within the Band of the Presentation to the Town of Dos Hermanas. It was there that he met what’s now his right-hand man, the composer Agustín Castro.

Each composition they make is a step ahead for the cornet, thought of probably the most troublesome instrument to play on the planet. “It is known as a result of it requires loads of bodily effort and also you do the tuning,” explains Dani de Baza, “however that very same effort is what makes the cornet transmit loads to the general public.”

Dani and Agustín have already launched two albums through which the cornet is now not a member’s instrument. “The cornet does not simply make music for Easter”, says Dani, who struggles to seek out its place amongst fusions with saxophone, brass quintets or music bands. “In many areas they do not even contemplate it an instrument,” he explains to NIUS.

His final single

His newest work is Liberty, which in simply over a weekend has reached multiple hundred thousand views. “This is the one after which certainly a report will come that would be the second symphony of cornets”, Dani forwards. The first symphony was Inmensity, composed by Agustín Castro, whose success took them on tour thrice to China.

Now they’ve recorded the Liberty video clip in New York. “It has been a powerful expertise,” says Dani. There are additionally bugles there, however they’re lengthy and with no key, the exact opposite of the Spanish one. “Every time we began filming, individuals came visiting to take photos.”

When they stopped filming and Dani lowered the bugle, the expectation continued and plenty of requested him to play once more. In reality, he is already been invited to current his new work on the International Trumpeters’ Congress in Minneapolis this summer season. It is the magic of an unknown instrument nevertheless it reaches everybody.