Gibrán Andrade

Gibrán Andrade ( MX )

  • drum set
  • electronics
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Active since 2009 mainly in the Mexican underground scenes from punk and hardcore to free jazz, experimental music and noise. Since 2013, he has organized improvised music concerts in various countercultural settings throughout Mexico City, in which Germán Bringas, Remi Álvarez, Gustavo Nandayapa, Le Trash Can, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Misha Marks, Carlos Alegre, and Mabe Fratti, among many others have collaborated.

Gibrán currently plays in several bands, including: Malcría, Doquier, Boom Boom Kid, Héroes del Destierro, trio with Germán Bringas and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Jorrit Dijkstra and Jeb Bishop Quartet, trio with Tony Malaby and Jason Roebke, the duo Esperanza Silver (with saxophonist Roberto Tercero), among many other collaborations. Androide is his solo project of noise with drums and electronics.

He is involved in multidisciplinary projects, particularly in theater, as a member of the Cro-Magnon company, and also collaborates with the sound design for the play "Oscura Sangre" by Dappertutto Teatro.

Gibrán has played in more than 40 cities in Mexico, Central America, Europe and the United States in various jazz, experimental and hardcore music festivals, and has performed with Cro-Magnon in independent theaters and cultural festivals throughout Mexico.

Since 2009, he is a teacher at Batería Estudio - an independent school. He teaches drumming and improvisation workshops in several schools in Mexico, including: UNICACH in Chiapas, Estancia Sonora in Aguascalientes, and Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City.

He studied jazz drums and composition at Escuela Superior de Música, improvisation at the Summer Intensive Workshop of School for Improvisational Music in New York in 2009 and 2010. He then studied in workshops with musicians Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, John Hollenbeck, Randy Peterson, among others. Recent studies include the Pakhawaj Indian percussion instrument with teacher Pandit Radheshyam Sharma for 3 years.

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