Pangea Abraham Cupeiro

• Abraham Cupeiro:
• 1 Oceanía 02:43
• María Ruiz:
• 2 China 04:51
• Abraham Cupeiro:
• 3 Norteamérica 02:58
• 4 Sudamérica 03:29
• 5 África 03:43
• 6 Arabia 04:54
• 7 Armenia 03:39
• Abraham Cupeiro, María Ruiz:
• 8 Bulgaría 03:32
• Abraham Cupeiro:
• 9 Costa Atlántica 07:22
• 10 Lamento 03:03
• Total Runtime 40:14

Info for Pangea

About two hundred million years ago, our planet was one unique and gigantic continent: Pangea. It began to progressively spread through the seas, and over time it resulted in the different continents we know today.

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, PANGEA, the new album of composer and multi-instrumentalist Abraham Cupeiro, is a musical trip through the different continents of our planet, bringing us closer to a great variety of cultures and sounds, through Abraham Cupeiro and María Ruiz´s own compositions.

Abraham, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, take us to fascinating places inhabited by captivating sounds and melodies: from the Southern Oceania with the echoes of their shells, to the mysterious Chinese mountains drawn by the beautiful melodies of traditional instrument Hulusi, we will lie down on the Great Plains of North America, levitate on the jungles of South America, we will enjoy the sparkling coluorful Peule flute of Senegal, the Bulgarian Bagpipe, the defiant Zurna and the ancient shepherd's horns will build the path to unify our planet again.

Pangea, is in itself, a chant to the cultural diversity of our planet.

As a musician, Abraham Cupeiro is the expression of versatility, despite his classical background, he has always been interested in all kinds of music. Since the beginning of his career, he´s been part of folk groups, jazz groups, old music ensembles…

His endless curiosity provides him with a polyhydric vision of art. His experience and interests exceed the field of music and are as diverse as organology, history, musical archeology, instrument building, composition... But above all, Abraham consistently manages to tap into his boundless resources of creativity and imagination.

Abraham has played as a soloist in various orchestras, among them; Orquestra Filarmónica de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, la Real Filarmonía de Galicia, orquesta Sinfónica de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Oviedo Filarmonía and Orquesta de Vaasa (Finland).

Abraham Cupeiro

Abraham Cupeiro
is a skillfull instrument builder and multi-instrumentalist, mostly known for bringing back instruments lost long ago. He enjoys playing on them to create new sonorities, using them in pieces far from their natural repertoire.

Cupeiro graduated from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid as trumpet player and went on his stuidies in Barcelona, completing a master´s degree in Interpretation of Early Music.

Despite his training as a classical music interpreter, he has always being attracted by music of any kind. Therefore, he started at an early age to join a number of folk and jazz bands, and several early music ensembles.

Cupeiro stands out as one of the few people in the world who play the Karnyx (celtic trumpet from the Iron age) and was recently invited to play on the Karnyx from Tintinac, the only one found in one piece in 2004.

Abraham acts also as ambassador for an ancestral Galician instrument named “corna” (cow horn). His own grandfather used to play on this traditional instrument whose track can be traced as early as in the illustrations on Alfonso X of Castilla´s books.

A genuine passion for instruments and organology led him to put together a collection with over 200 pieces from afar and from different times. Under the name “Ringing in the past”, Cupeiro presents them in a monologue-concert of his own design.

Abraham keeps finding and building instruments and playing every sort of music on them, enjoying their blend within nowadays ensembles. A few of these experiments can be found in Compromiscuo, a CD released with Belorussian accordionist Vadzim Yukhnevich. An important role for the Karnyx is also to be heard in Concierto Misterio, by Wladimir Rosinsky. The work was premiered by the Galician Symphony Orchestra and the karnyx part was tailored written to bring out Cupeiro’s especial skills on the instrument.

Os sons esquecidos (Forgotten sounds) is a very personal project, recorded with Filharmonía de Galicia and released in 20187 by Warner Classics.

This project has been played with many orchestras on Spain and Finland.

On November 2019 he recorded a new personal project: PANGEA, with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London at Abbey Road Studios.

This album contains no booklet.