Aceituna Sin Hueso

The band was formed on February 19, 2000, by Miriela Moreno, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba. She had been working there since 1998 in the Santa Clara musical group of the Spanish ballet, directed by Leonardo Orozco. Later they formed the group “Matrimonio del aire”, which was a sort of flamenco-fusion effort under the direction of Reydel Bernal. Miriela had already been seduced by the idea of saying things in a different way but with Cuban music as the core of the approach. It was then that they came up with “El cantaor y el Molino,” which was the first song that was included in the repertoire that defined their later work as the group “Aceituna sin hueso.” Aceituna sin Hueso is a band of experimental ethnic music. Part of Cuban music mixes with different international forms of folkloric music, though the public knows more about the work with Spanish and flamenco sounds, given the air play these receive. In this sense, Aceituna flirts a lot with world music from the Caribbean and India, as well as Celtic music, jazz, rock, rap, music of the highlands, funk, country and western, soul, pop, Arabic, Turkish, and finally a wide range that allows them to merge their roots without the fear of repeating themselves too much. In 2002, the CD "Marginales.com" was produced under the Unicorn label of the Abdala Studios. In 2005 with the same label they released "Consumir preferiblemente antes de". Also that year they participated in the production ?Cuba le canta a Serrat", which was nominated for a Grammy, and on which they performed songs with a host of Cuban musical geniuses under the Spanish label Discmedi-blau. Members Miriela Moreno, Director and vocalist Esther Martínez, guitarist. Juan Curbelo, violinist Andy Santana, tresero Juan L. Meneses, electric bass Gabriel Velázquez, percussionists Ariel Marrero, percussionist