BORN IN LEBRIJA, SEVILLE, IN 1981, RYCARDO MORENO HAS WORKED AS A MUSICAL PRODUCER, ARRANGER, COMPOSER AND GUITARIST. GERARDO NUÑEZ DISCOVERED HIM AND HE DECIDED TO LAUNCH HIS CAREER AS A SOLO GUITARIST, BECOMING HIS GODFATHER. HIS FIRST SOLO WORK IS CALLED “VAREKAI” AND THE SECOND ONE “AGALEANO”, BOTH EDITED BY THE LABEL NUBA KARONTE. HE HAS WORKED WITH QUALITY ARTISTS SUCH AS CONCHA BUIKA, ARCÁNGEL, ESPERANZA FERNÁNDEZ, JORGE PARDO, EL LEBRIJANO, LOLE MONTOYA, ALBA MOLINA, JUAN DE JUAN, RAIMUNDO AMADOR, JAVIER RUIBAL, MONTSE CORTÉS, GUADIANA, JOSEMI CARMONA, JOSÉ VALENCIA, YELSI HEREDIA, ETC.
HE WON “BEST TOURISTIC SPOT” IN THE ANDALUCIA TOURISTIC CAMPAIGN AS A PRODUCER, ARRANGER AND GUITARIST IN THE SONG “TE QUIERO MUCHO”. HE PARTICIPATED IN THE LAST LEBRIJANO CD CALLED “CUANDO EL LEBRIJANO CANTA, SE MOJA EL AGUA”, AS WELL AS IN THE PIANIST DORANTES CD NAMED “SIN MUROS” AND IN THE ESPERANZA FERNÁNDEZ CD CALLED “MI VOZ EN TU PALABRA”. HE HAS ALSO PARTICIPATED IN TWO OF JORGE PARDO’S CDS, “HISTORIAS DE RAHDA Y KRISHNA” AND “DJINN”. THIS LAST ONE WAS AWARDED IN THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS. HE HAS COLLABORATED IN A LOLE MONTOYA CD, WHERE HE PLAYED GUITAR AND ARRANGED ALEJANDRO SANZ ́S “METÁFORAS”, AND IN THE LAST LYA CD. HE WAS A SECOND GUITARIST IN THE RAIMUNDO AMADOR TOUR “MEDIO HOMBRE Y MEDIO GUITARRA” AND IN THE TOMÁS DE PERRATE CD CALLED “INFUNDIO”.
HE HAS COLLABORATED WITH THE QUARTET DORANTES AS A GUITARIST IN THE SAN SEBASTIÁN JAZZ FESTIVAL, AS WELL AS IN SAN JAVIER, TOLOUSE, PARIS AND IN THE NATIONAL AUDITORY OF SPAIN. WITH JORGE PARDO ́S QUARTET “HUELLAS” HE PERFORMED IN THE SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA JAZZ FESTIVAL, IN ARNEDO, PALENCIA, ETC. AMONG WITH THE GROUP “KING OF CAI” HE PARTICIPATES IN THE NAGUA-NAGUA FESTIVAL. HE HAS WORKED SEVERAL YEARS IN THE BIENAL OF FLAMENCO OF SEVILLE TOGETHER WITH ARTISTS AS TOMÁS DE PERRATE, DORANTES, RICARDO PACHÓN, ETC.
IN 2012 HE PARTICIPATED AS A MUSICAL DIRECTOR, AS WELL AS A GUITARIST, IN THE FLAMENCO SHOW OF JUAN DE JUAN CALLED “FLAMENCO HOOFER ́S”. IN NEW YORK HE WORKED WITH HIS QUARTET “FLAMENCO WORLD MUSIC”, IN PRESTIGIOUS CLUBS LIKE ZINC BAR, LE POISSON ROUGE AND TERRAZA 7. TOGETHER WITH HAVIER RUBIEL HE PERFORMEDIN THE NY CERVANTES INSTITUTE AND IN THE SPANISH CIRCLE. IN NY’S MAD MUSEUM HE PERFORMED WITH JUAN DE JUAN AND AMERICAN TAP DANCER JASON SAMUEL SMITH.
AFTER PRESENTING HIS WORK IN NEW YORK CITY, MORENO DIVES INTO THE RECORDING OF HIS SOLO ALBUM “VAREKAI”. AFTER THE PERFORMANCE OF VAREKAI IN THE GUITAR FESTIVAL “GERARDO NUÑEZ”, THE MASTER NOTICES HIM AND MAKES THE REALEASE OF THE ALBUM POSSIBLE IN 2015.
IN “VAREKAI” WE CAN HEAR A MORENO THAT IMPOSES PATIO GYPSY MEETINGS, IMAGINING SEVILLIAN SUBURBS THAT OPEN THEIR WINDOWS TO THE 21ST CENTURY TRHOUGH THE VOICE OF ESPERANZA FERNÁNDEZ (LEBRIJANATRIANA XXI), APPROACHING TWO OTHER RUPTURISTS AND PROFESIONAL COMMUNICATORS WITH NEW TALENTES LIKE LIN CORTÉS AND GUADIANA TO APPROACH A FLAMENCO-CHILL VERSION OF FLAMENCO (DE POLVO Y ARENA), AND FLAMENCO GOSPEL (VAREKAI, JUNTO A JORGE PARDO Y JOSE VALENCIA), DEVELOPS STORIES IN LONELYNESS, WITH DELAYS, ECHOES AND ACOUSMATIC MUSIC TO FLY (SANACIÓN), DEVELOPS A NEW WAY FOR THE SOLEA IN BETWEEN THE ARABIC-ANDALUSI INFLUENCE (LA GENEROSIDAD DE LOS PERSEGUIDOS) OR THE ROMANI FOLK MUSIC THROUGH THE EYES OF PEDRO AZNAR, LUDOVICO EINAUDI OR PAT METHENY (THE ROMANI IMPROVISATION WITH DORANTES) AND THE JAZZ STANDARDS; AT THE SAME TIME HE IMPACTS A BRANCH OF FLAMENCO JAZZ THAT CONTACTS WITH DIFFERENT LATINO RHYTHMS, FROM THE TANGO (EL TANGO DE LOS ABRAZOS) TO BOLERO (CAFEBOLERO), BRASILIAN INFLUENCED BULERIAS (LA DANZA DEL SONIDO) OR THE SON AND MABO (INFLUENCIAS DEL MAMBO). A MURAL OF PATCHES OF COLOR SO IMPROVISED AND IMPULSIVE AS PART OF A PLAN FOR MIXT ART.
THE ALBUM HAS BEEN PRESENTED IN PRESTIGIOUS PLACES AS THE ROME PHILHARMONIE, CABO VERDE FESTIVAL “CIDADE VELHA”, ISRAEL MEDITERRANEAN FESTIVAL, AND THE BIENAL OF FLAMENCO OF SEVILLA, AMONG OTHER PLACES.
RYCARDO MORENO PRESENTS US HIS LAST WORK, AGALEANO, CONCEIVED AS A TRIBUTE TO URUGUAYAN WRITER “EDUARDO GALEANO”, DEPARTING FROM HIS LIBRO DE LOS ABRAZOS BOOK.
ACCORDING TO MORENO, “EL LIBRO DE LOS ABRAZOS WAS IMPREGNATED WITH MUSIC AND YOU ONLY HAD TO DECODE IT”, AND SO HE STARTED WORKING AND HE ACHIEVED A NARRATIVE FORM: “GALEANO ́S COMPOSITION TAKES THE STRUCTURE OF INTRODUCTION, BODY AND END, IN THREE BLOCKS OF APPROXIMATELY 20 MIN EACH, WHERE MUSIC TIES ONE STORY WITH THE OTHER IN A VERY NATURAL WAY”.
THE RESULTS ARE 12 LITERATURE COMPOSITIONS WITH AVANT-GARDE FLAMENCO USING 10 EDUARDO GALEANO SHORT STORIES. LYRICS ARE TRANSFORMED INTO MUSIC AND CLAIM, PRIMARY FLAMENCO EXPRESSIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
THE GUITAR OF RYCARDO MORENO HAS BEEN WELL ACCOMPANIED IN THE CD, WITH GREAT COLLABORATORS: THE VOICE OF SANDRA CARRASCO, THE ACCORDION OF PORTUGUESE ARTIST JOAO FRADE , THE DIVERSITY OF INSTRUMENTS OF POTI TRUJILLO AND THE SURPRISING CORPORAL PERCUSSION BY RYCARDO HIMSELF
CURRENTLY, AFTER ACHIEVING SUCCESS FROM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE CRITICS IN THE FLAMENCO FESTIVAL “Ñ”, RYCARDO MORENO IS GOING ON A TOUR TO USA, THE NEDERLANDS, BARCELONA, AND OTHER TOUR DATES TO CONFIRM.
ALONG WITH HIS LAST PROJECT, HE IS MAKING A SHORT FILM CALLED “SUEÑAN EN ALEPO”, WORKING AS A SCREENWRITER AND CODIRECTING IT WITH MANUEL DEL TORO. THIS SHORT FILM IS THOUGHT TO COMPETE IN THE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL OF SEVILLA, AND ITS ALSO INTENDED TO BE PROYECTED IN SEVERAL FLAMENCO FESTIVALS AND MOVIE FESTIVALS.