LAURA ROBLES
live – Solo Anti-Groove or Trio w/ Camina (PE, based in Berlin, DE)
Techrider and Stageplan
Biography
Laura Robles Marcuello was born in Mbabane, Swaziland, to a Peruvian father and an Argentine mother, and grew up in Lima, Peru. She began playing Cajón at the age of four and was taught by Amador Chebo Ballumbrosio until she was twelve.
The Peruvian singer, composer and ethnomusicologist Susana Baca and her husband Ricardo Pereira founded the Instituto Negrocontinuo (Black Continuum) in Lima, which is dedicated to the preservation of Afro-Peruvian culture. Laura Robles studied there for several years, attending theory classes with the Cuban violinist Nils Borges Alonso, listening to rehearsals, meeting many musicians and starting with her first bands.
She met the Cuban musicians Laureano Rigol (drummer) and Roberto Borrell (percussionist and dancer), from whom she learned, among other things, technique and theory as well as traditional and popular Cuban music.
In her solo project ANTI-GROOVE, Laura Robles uses rhythms from different countries and changes the internal phrasing through morphing and improvisation, composing rhythms and melody lines that accompany the process of change.
With CAMINA, Laura Robles is looking for new ways to interpret modern jazz music with the Afro-Peruvian cajón. Together with the Berlin-based musicians Peter Ehwald (saxophone) and Johannes Lauer (piano), she has developed a musical language that combines the rhythmic and harmonic concepts of jazz with the expressive possibilities of Afro-Peruvian folklore, creating a tightly woven music of great improvisational freedom and breadth.
