AURORA CLARA

Jazz Rock/Fusion • Spain

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Aurora Clara biography
Aurora Clara is a multi-national progressive rock/jazz fusion band with flamenco and world music influences which was created in 2018. The band is based in Madrid, Spain, with its leader being Finnish guitarist Ra�l Mannola, who now resides in Madrid. The initial line-up was completed by Juan Carlos Arac�l on flute, Marco Anderson on drums and percussion, Stanislav Borisov on keyboards and Nelson Rebolledo on bass, and they played their first concert at the Conservatorio Profesional de M�sica "Arturo Soria" in Madrid, Spain, on December 10th 2018. Nelson Rebolledo was replaced on bass in the late spring of 2019 by Nill Oliveira, with H�rcules Da Silva filling in on bass for some live performances in the early summer of that year.

Ra�l Mannola is a versatile and experienced guitarist who can play a variety of styles, including traditional and experimental flamenco, jazz-rock electric guitar and jazz fusion/world music acoustic guitar. He is believed to be the first person to play flamenco on a 12-string guitar. Although he was born in Brazil and raised in Finland, Ra�l now lives in Madrid, where he has devoted himself to the art of flamenco for the last 25 years.

Juan Carlos Arac�l is a flutist from Alicante, Spain. He is a specialist in flamenco and flamenco jazz, with a particular talent for improvisation. He has an exceptionally well-developed sense of rhythm, this being the result of many years of work with the dancer Juan Ram�rez.

Marco Anderson is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist born in Yorkshire, England, and currently based in Bristol. He has had a professional career spanning more than 40 years, playing almost every musical style imaginable, from progressive and psychedelic rock, to indo jazz, flamenco jazz, mainstream and free jazz, hard rock and more.

Nill Oliveira is a bassist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. An eclectic, professional musician specializing primarily in Brazilian music, but also in rock, funk and blues. He known for his powerful and elegant groove, having a technique which he is able to maintain even at extreme tempos.

Stanislav Borisov is a pianist/keyboardist and composer born in Sofia, Bulgaria who took up piano at the age of six. He is a graduate of the Codarts University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he studied piano jazz, and he is an accomplished connoisseur of modern jazz, rock, traditional Greek music, ethnic, and also classical music. Although he was initially exposed to classical music...read more