BIG MAMA MONTSE & CAPTAIN'S BROTHERHOOD * SENZA CONFINE VOL.1 *

 

Nuevo disco! de BIG MAMA MONTSE & CAPTAIN'SBROTHERHOOD : 

BIG MAMA MONTSE & CAPTAIN’S BROTHERHOOD – “SENZA CONFINE VOL.1”

Este nuevo disco/EP arranca con Soul Connections, un tema inspirado en las protestas pacíficas de la población de Minneapolis ante las recientes deportaciones y asesinatos.

You’re my angel, Qué quiero de ti, Glass of tears, Sex o’clock y Bossa 4 you, son los otros títulos del álbum cuyas sonoridades exploran el funk, blues, New Orleans’ Groove, jazz y la bossa nova. Un disco con fragancias de música afroamericana que fluye con una libertad, tanto individual como grupal, senza confine.

BIG MAMA MONTSE: Voz Big Mama Montse

LORENZO SPINOZZI: Guitarra Lorenzo Spinozzi

HERNÁN FRIDMAN: Bajo Hernan Fridman

ALBERTO BURGUEZ: Piano Alberto Burguez

SALVA SUAU: Batería Salvador Suau Comas

Biography

Montserrat Pratdesaba was born at  St Quirze de Besora (Catalonia-Spain) in 1963, and was nicknamed Big Mama Montse at Barcelona's legendary "La Cova del Drac" club where her career and love for the Blues began.

With only 6 years she studied piano and at age 12 she started with the guitar. Montse is telecom engineer specialist in image and sound and has been working for 6 years in the Catalan Television (TV3) but she decided to leave that job to pursue music professionally. Since then she has been strongly committed to the Blues, singing in numerous concerts and festivals.

She has coproduced 21 records and a long list of collaborations on albums in which she has participated. In addition, Big Mama's career has been related to educational work, by offering countless concerts to initiate children and adults in the Blues.

Between 2008 and 2016 he collaborated as a music journalist for the French magazine Blues & Co.

Her music has also had international impact, as Putumayo Records included "No way out", a song by Big Mama & Victor Uris, for the compilation "Blues Around The World" which also featured international artists such as Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Eric Bibb, Habib Koitié, etc.

She is currently Vice-President of AIE (Spanish Society of Artists), Vice-President of the Professional Association of Musicians of Catalonia (Musicat) and member of the Board of IAO (International Artists Organisation).

She has been President of the Barcelona Blues Society (1-4-2016/20-1-2024) and a member of the Board of Directors of the AIE (since 2019) and of the Board of the Union of Professional Musicians (since its foundation in 2020 until 20-1-2024). Between 2013-16 she's been one of the 12 members of the Board of the European Blues Union. On 2013, Montserrat Pratdesaba celebrated her 25th Anniversary as Big Mama on tour with the band Taller de Músics All Stars, in 2018 she commemorated 3 Decades in the Blues with her 30's Band and inand in 2023 35 Years in the music business with Captain's Brotherhood.

On 2015 she receives the "Jazzterrassaman Award" by Terrassa International Jazz Festival. She has also received the Capibola Blues Award 2010 by Barcelona Blues Festival, an ukelele for her 25th Anniversary as Big Mama by Barcelona Blues Society, Honorific Member by Rubí Blues Society on 2015 and Girona Blues Society on 2016, Artist BluesCat 2007 given by the Blues Festivals of Catalonia (Cerdanyola, Reus and Roses), "Dones d´Enllaç" Award 2008, "Best Jazz Album 1994" by Radio4, Finalist as "Best Jazz Album" by SGAE and AIE at III Premios de la Música, Finalist of the Bands Challenge by Getxo International Jazz Festival 1991, La Nota de Santa Cecilia 2019 Award by the Association Musicat, Mention by the Vicerrectorado de Políticas Sociales y Cultura of the University Pablo de Olavide from Sevilla 2023, Big Bill Broonzy Award 2024 by Barcelona Blues Society, etc.

Info  & Photos : https://www.bigmamamontse.com