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Raigaños Celtes
Raigaños Celtes: first CD of Brenga Astur

Brenga Astur released its first CD "Raigaños Celtes" in Asturies (Uviéu 1998) with the supporting of Sidra El Gaitero. It was a work that meant the beginning of its run as a music band by doing a review of some of the Asturian classic folk repertoire, but by doing new arrangements and trying to give a new perspective and point of view. They also include several themes from some of the other Celtic Atlantic Arch countries.
A little bit after this, Brenga Astur participated as a guest band in a collection of music of the Celtic Nations that was released in Spain. The title of this CD was "Naciones Celtas II" (Celtic Nations II), and it was released by the record company FONOMUSIC (Madrid). In this CD, you can find lots of different bands from the eight official Celtic nations of Europe. Brenga Astur plays the song "Marcha d'Antón el Neñu".

Brenga Astur participated also in other CD called "España Celta" ("Celtic Spain") that was released in Italy, by the Italian record company AVALON, in 1998. It was a collection of Celtic folk bands from Asturies and Galicia (the two Celtic countries from northwestern Spain). Together with the CD, a magazine was also released talking about the music and the different bands that play in it. Brenga Astur appears in that CD with the song "Cau'l chouzano".

Very similar to this, Brenga Astur appears in a collection of Asturian music that was released in Brittany (Celtic country from the northwestern part of France). The CD was titled "Asturies", and Brenga Astur plays the song "Xotes de Mumián". Some other songs of Brenga Astur were included in another CD collection released by International Amnesty and titled "El Latido de la Memoria" ("The heartbeat of the memory"). The song Brenga Astur plays in this collection was "Queixúmenes de la Braña".

Brenga Astur released its second CD, in this case under a new record company called FONOMUSIC (Madrid), in 1999. The title of this second CD was "Cancios del Gochu Xabaz", and in it the band offers a new collection of more traditional Asturian songs arranged by them, and some other new ones arranged according Asturian patterns of rhythms and style. So although most of the themes are Asturian, there are also a couple of them from Brittany as a tribute the band wanted to dedicate to a country that is a brother land of Asturies in many cultural aspects and personality.
Some of the guest musicians in this second Brenga Astur CD are Fonsu Fernández, ex-member of the band "LLiberdón", playing hurdy-gurdy; Xose Ambas, from the band "N'Arba" playing Scottish highland bagpipes; Rickhi Hambra playing Hindu tabla; Xuan Antón Barbolla playing bombarde; Dolfu Rodríguez, from the band "Dubrán", playing fiddle; Concha García doing a vocal duet with our singer Marta in the second theme "Agora non"; and Pedro Bastarrica (unfortunately he passed away recently) playing keyboards.
With this album, Brenga Astur won the award "Triskel Dixital CPN 2000" for the best Asturian song of the year 2000, with the song "Queixúmenes de la Braña". That song was then included in a CD collection released in Asturias that year. The title of the CD was "L'Asturianu vive, la llucha sigue" ("The Asturian language is alive, the fight continues"), and was a collection of the best Asturian songs of the year in Asturian language.

 

Cancios del Gochu Xabaz
Cancios del Gochu Xabaz: Second CD of Brenga Astur
Brenga Astur released its third CD in October of 2002 (Madrid) with the record company DRO (Warner Brothers Spain). The title of this CD was "Tornando al Abellugu'l LLar". It is a CD that offers one more ride on Asturian Celtic folk music, but it pretends to be a little bit more "Asturian" than the previous two.
Among the brilliant guest musicians that appear in this CD were: Eric Rigler, playing the Scottish highland bagpipes, a very prestigious piper who played the pipes in the soundtracks of two very well known films: "Braveheart" and "Titanic"; Germán Díaz, brilliant, very prestigious, and one of the best European hurdy-gurdy player; Serguei Sapricheff, playing Hindu tabla; Concha García making duets and background vocals with both of our singers; Pablo Arce, playing Scottish snare drums; Fernando Malva playing keyboards; and Xuan LLuis Barbolla playing electric and acoustic guitars.

Tornando al abellugu'l llar
Tornando al abellugu'l llar: Third CD of Brenga Astur
 
 

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