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ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY Gerardo Farez, keyboardist, drummer, composer and producer, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the early 80’s. He is currently leading his own band called “Gerardo Farez y La Marea Oceánica” (Gerardo Farez and the ocean tide) and also is keyboardist for the Tremor band and Argentine singer Palo Pandolfo. As keyboardist Gerardo has recorded analog synthesizers and keyboards on more than 60 albums in rock, pop, indie, folk, electronic styles and has performed live concerts with more than 40 bands and soloists in Argentina. Recently he has played keyboards at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Roskilde, Womex, PopKomm, TransMusicales Rennes, Creamfields, Pepsi Music, Hot Festival, and in the main stadiums, theaters and stages of Buenos Aires.
Since 2006 he is part of Tremor trio, with 4 albums released and particularly the last two were edited by New York label ¨WondeWheel Recordings¨ and ¨Zizek Records¨, performing in several and diverse scenarios and festivals of Argentina, Latin America, Europe, the US and Canada. During the same period, Gerardo has composed music for the film Liniers, ¨2042¨ (a short film, Mexican and Argentinean production), for contemporary dance pieces and was in charge of soundings for plastic and visual art installations. Along his trajectory, for several years he has been partner to several Argentine artists with the keyboards. Nevertheless, Gerardo Farez began his musical career as a drummer and soon was completely dedicated to working with analog synthesizers and keyboards. Now he launches his solo project, recording his first record with his own personal voice and lyrics in Spanish, mixing an electric pop experimental style, with the new wave, electro tribal rhythms, semi nude acoustic passages, experimenting songs, connecting the analog synthesizers and machines of rhythm to an electric band of songs, sounding from the present time. For this solo project he creates the band “Gerardo Farez y La Marea Oceanica”, with Gerardo Farez (in the vocals, synths, octapad and guitar), Vanina Becares (bass, backing vocals and percussion) and Leandro Troiano (playing guitars, synths and octapad). The band gives several life concerts and recorded the first album of the band, titled LOTUS. Edited in physical and digital format by Twitin Records, record label founded and cured by the Argentine musician and producer Tweety Gonzalez, with an outstanding trajectory in The Latin American music scene. The album LOTUS is published in physical and digital format simultaneously, being available in 30 record stores in Argentina, in YouTube (Full Album), Spotify, I Tunes, Deezer, Amazon and many digital stores. In 2016, the band participated in several interviews for most relevant graphic and visual local media, also does live presentations in Buenos Aires stages such as Ciudad Emergente Festival 2016, The Roxy Live, Niceto Club, La Viola Bar, Cultural Center Nestor Kirchner CCK, Kirie Music Club, the television channel Much Music and a live session for Coca Cola. |
Como Productor Artístico ha trabajado en discos de diversas bandas y solistas. En los años 2013 y 2014 es convocado como arreglador por la banda El Otro Yo, para adaptar canciones en piano y cuerdas para algunos conciertos acústicos. Junto a Tan Bionica realiza intervenciones sonoras que se utilizaron en el Tour Obsesionario (2012), luego en 2014 es tecladista invitado en vivo en un concierto del tour ¨Destinologia¨, y en 2015 es convocado nuevamente por Tan Bionica como Synth Tech para el álbum ¨Hola Mundo¨, también siendo invitado a grabar sintetizadores. Desde el 2006 hasta la fecha forma parte del trio Tremor, llevando 4 discos editados, y gran cantidad de presentaciones en escenarios y festivales de Argentina, Latinoamérica, Europa, Estados Unidos y Canadá. Paralelamente, Gerardo ha compuesto música para la película Liniers, cortometrajes de México y Argentina, obras de danza contemporanea, y sonorizaciones de muestras de arte plástica e instalaciones visuales. Como Baterista integró la banda del solista Ivan Noble desde el 2003 al 2010, grabando 2 discos de estudio, como músico de sesión para el sello discografico SonyMusic/BMG.