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Arima Soul

Makala, Lidia Insausti, Paul San Martin & Gorka Gaztanbide

ARIMA SOUL, is the new Soul music project («Arima» means «Soul» in Basque language) created by Mikel Makala (bass) and Lidia Insausti (vocals), later joined by Paul San Martin (keyboards) and Gorka Gaztanbide (drums). With a clear influence of Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz-Groove of the 60’s & 70’s, but also with an eye on the contemporary Neo-Soul style. In their live shows, in addition to playing their own songs sung in Basque language, they perform covers of some exponents of the genre such as Etta James, Gil Scott-Heron, Marie «Queenie» Lyons,…

In the summer of 2020 they recorded an EP with 5 original songs at Fredi Peláez’s Pottoko studio. At the beginning of 2021, they are nominated as «Best New Group» in the «Enlace Funk Awards 2020». And in the summer of 2021, they released a 7′ vinyl single, on Enlace Funk Discos label in Madrid, getting good reviews.

They have offered multiple concerts in some venues through the Basque Country and surroundings such as Dabadaba (Donosti), Altxerri Jazz Klub (Donosti), Kafe Antzokia (Bilbao), Modelo Aretoa (Zarautz), Balenciaga Museum (Guetaria), Arizkunenea (Elizondo-Baztán),… and festivals such as Musikaire (Elorrio), Tolosandblues (Tolosa), Jazz Herrian (Agurain), Atlantikaldia Festival (Renteria), Midnight Boogie Festival (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Itsas-Festibala (Pasaia), Berumuga (Bergara), Jazzez-Blai (Deba), Adarretatik Music Festival (Zarautz), Uztakale (Legazpi), Durangoko Azoka: Book & Record Fair (Durango),… and highlighting in the 57th Jazzaldia (Txikijazz), International Jazz Festival of Donostia-San Sebastián.

In the spring of 2022, they goes to Elkar studios in Donostia-San Sebastian to record the project’s first album, by the hand of sound engineer Víctor Sánchez, album that is released in the fall of that same year on the prestigious Basque label Elkar Musika.

At the end of 2022, they’re selected to be part of the «Girando por Salas – GPS#13» initiative, which in the first months of 2023 will take them to offer concerts, presenting their project in different Spanish cities.

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