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Irene Aranda

IRENE ARANDA

Pianist, composer.

Born in Jaén ( Andalucía / Spain ) and Berlin-based, started to play piano at age seven. Classical trained and selftaught in jazz and free improvisation, Aranda is defined by the critics as original, astonishing and freed from stereotypes.

Irene Aranda has played with Don Malfon, Brandon López, Ami Yamasaki, Samuel Blasser, Ernesto Rodrigues, Johannes Nästestjö, Floros Floridis, Kriton Beyer, Valentin Schuster, Chris Jonas, Maria Reich, Markus Breuss, Germán Díaz, Agustí Fernández, Joanna Mattrey, Lucía Martínez, Javier Carmona, Núria Andorrà, Marc Egea and so on.


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«Right from the gitgo, this trio erupts with explosive freedom. The sound of this trio is visceral, on the verge of flying apart. The rumbling piano expands and contracts while the drummer centers on cymbals & gongs and the bassist creates ominous waves with the bow. The cymbals, gongs or metals also sound as if they are being bowed, and are also creating an eerie subterranean web. This trio deals more with textures and timbral sonics, carefully manipulating everything they touch or play. Much of the time it is impossible to tell exactly what instruments are being used. Many of the sounds are industrial in nature as if we were walking through a busy factory of metal being processed. The overall effect feels like a dense force pushing and pulling on us fragile humans, squeezing strange sounds out of ordinary instruments. The next time I play this in the store, someone will be blown away and not know what hit them. This is some heavy sonic medicine»
Bruce Lee Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery) about Inner Core

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

MAY

Relative Pitch Records
2026

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After Miles

Self Produced
2023

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Estudios Extendidos

Self Produced
2021

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Inner Core

Relative Pitch Records
2018

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Phonophobia

Vector Sounds
2016

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Tribus

Producciones Efímeras
2016

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