Christian Basso (born September 27, 1966), is an

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musician, known as both a composer and a multi-instrumentalist. He has created music pieces for theater, dance, installations, television and films. Among his most recent creations is the music for Korean feature '' Secret Sunshine'' by renowned filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, film which was awarded a ''

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'' in

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2007. His music combines elements from tango, Italian music,

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and Argentine

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with the classical and traditional features of soundtrack composers. Throughout his over twenty-year career, he became well known in the local scene as bassist and musician of diverse projects next to such artists as

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, Andrés Calamaro,

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, Maria Gabriela Epumer, among others; and mainly with

La Portuaria La Portuaria is an Argentine rock band formed at the beginning of the 1990s. The band developed a fusion sound, constructing Latin rhythms upon a base strongly influenced by jazz and rhythm 'n' blues. The line-up included Christian Basso on bass ...

, band of which he was mastermind and founding member next to Diego Frenkel. This group became key in the music renewal scene of the 1990s in Argentina for it combined sounds, rhythms and instruments characteristic of the so-called world music with rock. His themes ''Selva'' and ''El Bar de la Calle Rodney'' remained in the first positions of best-selling charts for weeks. As soloist he edited ''Profanía'' and ''La Penthalpha'', creations which delve deeply into a search for a more personal sound that embraces the spirit and influences of the immigrants’ culture. Both projects feature

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Eva Faludi (''Coro Polifonico Nacional''), American singer Kal Cahoone (''Lilium'', ''Tarantella''); and music arranger

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(Hypnofon), among others. ¨Basso proposes a music of strong European accent with port, cabaret and vaudeville scents. It echoes melancholic violins, mandolins and accordions, next to spaghetti-western twang guitars. It is a deeply evocative sound which recognizes predecessors like Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and, more recently, the group Calexico and ´bad seed´ Barry Adamson”. ''Claudio Kleiman / Rolling Stone Magazine''

External links

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