Eduardo Laguillo

Spanish composer and multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, bass and guitar player). Eduardo Laguillo was born in Madrid. He started learning guitar thru songs by groups and singer/songwriters such as the Beatles, James Taylor, Genesis and Simon & Garfunkel. In 1972 he moved to Barcelona, where he studied classical and flamenco guitar, classical and jazz piano, jazz orchestration, harmony, counterpoint and musical forms at the Advanced Music Conservatory and Modern Music and Jazz School. In 1985 he won a scholarship and moved to Vienna, Austria, to round off his composition studies at the Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1989 he has travelled assiduously to India, where he has studied classical Indian music with S.B. Shrivastava. In Calcutta in 1995 he was initiated into the playing of the sarod (a 25-stringed Indian instrument) with Shyamal Nath, a disciple of Master Ali Akbar Khan. In this seven-year period he took a deep interest in the rhythms, scales and modes of sarod music. He has played live and recorded with Jaume Sisa, Gato Pérez, Luis Eduardo Aute, Pablo Guerrero, Suso Saiz, Javier Paxariño, Dina Rot, Silvia Nakkach, Radio Tarifa, Greta y Los Garbo, Artenara and Eliseo Parra. He participated in the Dagoll Dagom company’s theatrical extravaganzas “Antaviana” and “La nit de Sant Joan”, as musician and musical director. He worked for the companies Sintonía and ADV as composer and music producer for the AV world. In 1990 he founded Taxi Records, an independent recording label to promote almost-unknown Spanish music of great artistic value.