Giraldo Piloto & Klimax

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Innovators of Cuban Son

Tue-Wed, October 21-22

8pm $30
OPEN DANCE FLOOR!
Doors open at 7pm

Among those strongly innovating Cuban son, excels Klimax, the group created by Giraldo Piloto Baretto, nephew of the great percussionist Guillermo Baretto. Giraldo Piloto recognizes his uncle's style and touch as the main influence and the spine of his music. A music which is characterized above all by its jazzy accent, not in the way as in Irakere but perfectly integrated in the typical timba sound that prevails in Cuba nowadays . That's what makes Klimax very special, different from the rest of the Cuban groups.

Graduated in percussion at the Cuban National School of Art in 1980, Piloto initiated his professional career as drummer of the orchestra of the Tropicana night club, a superb school to start the trajectory in which he has showed his talent as musician, arranger and composer of several Cuban groups.

“Exceptional musician” could be a correct qualification, nevertheless it doesn't do justice to Piloto's other qualities. Added to his talent as musician, arranger and musical director are his accurate and prolific work as a composer, which causes his themes to appear in the discography of various orchestras that cultivate salsa in Cuba and other countries of the world.

Klimax is an artistic-aesthetic project directed by Piloto, an option that includes all sorts of Cuban music and also jazz and other Caribbean rhythms. Klimax has, in addition, an own label, typically Cuban, that offers the most genuine and contemporary of Cuban popular music.

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415.655.5600 (Box Office)