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Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra

Grammy-Nominated Flamenco Guitarist and Composer

Since 1990, Ottmar Liebert has released a total of 22 albums, including live releases, Christmas CDs, 10 CDs of original music, a DVD and remixes. His debut album, 1990’s Nouveau Flamenco, featuring the stunning “Barcelona Nights,” sold double-platinum and has become the biggest-selling guitar album of all time, redefining Flamenco music and marking Liebert as one of the most talented, influential and creative guitarists and performers to surface in years. His fans-hardcore guitarists and guitar fans, instrumental music aficionados and numerous lovers of his often poignant, always inspired sound-are ardent in their appreciation of Liebert. Critical acclaim has been equally fervent, Billboard magazine honoring him twice New Age Artist of the Year. From rumba to Bossa Nova to classical to Christmas tunes to lullabies, Liebert has explored and expanded them all, putting his unique stamp and intellectual yet visceral spin to music.

As with everything Liebert does, there are many facets to be explored and angles to traverse. Prior to La Semana’s release, 2003’s Nouveaumatic record marked the completion of a trilogy that began with 2002’s In The Arms of Love: Lullabies 4 Children + Adults (which was followed by number two in the trilogy, February 2003’s The Santa Fe Sessions). This concept was first explained on the 2001 CD Little Wing, his album of stellar covers. Going forward, Liebert decided, his CDs would be color-coded in conjunction with the musical formation contained within. Blue would be solo material along the lines of In The Arms of Love. Red would be Luna Negra music, such as the acclaimed Nouveau Flamenco, and would be mostly acoustic; and gray would be remixes of earlier albums, as 2002’s Euphoria was a remix of 1993’s Grammy-nominated Hours Between Night and Day. “This way there are three distinct directions. I need to split myself into parts because I think I’ve taken some of the mixing as far as I can take it,” explains Liebert. “I like these three different elements of my music too much to not take them each into a separate direction and let them grow. I think by splitting into three entities, the people who like all of my music will have more music from me, and those who like one style more than the other will be able to pick just that.” Thus, La Semana is a “red” album, and will likely be followed by blue and gray releases.

Liebert has always been a creative thinker and doer. Born in Cologne, Germany to a Chinese-German father and Hungarian mother, he traveled extensively through Europe and Asia intent on fully absorbing each musical tradition he encountered. Liebert was, and remains, influenced by everything around him, from museums to nature to books. “I read very early on,” he reveals. “We didn’t have a TV. We didn’t get one until my grandparents moved up to a color one, and I was 12 years old. And we didn’t have a phone until then either!”

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