ABOUT

Before moving to New York in 2009,   He entered the world of Flamenco through the Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Contest of Madrid, winning a prize for “Pa´dentro,” a martinete composed for Triazion danza. When asked to form a percussion group, he introduced to Flamenco the use of a gourd from Mali as a percussion instrument.  Academies, tablaos and baile were his school for eight years and he collaborated with Joaquín Cortés, Gerardo Nuñez and Rocio Molina, along with many of Spain’s hottest Flamenco dancers and artists.  As a child, age 6,  had been classically trained as a pianist,  and later on he performed as vocal soloist with soprano diva Montserat Caballé and the Spanish National Orchestra at the opening act  of the Spain National Auditorium with the World Premiere of “La Atlántida” by Manuel de Falla. He turned to percussion in his teens and Flamenco was a break with the formalism of his early training.

Arimany’s unique style and diverse capabilities ultimately steered him into the broader scopes of World music and Jazz, where he has performed and recorded with Lionel Loueke, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo.  His first independent project, the Nacho Arimany World-Flamenco Septet, integrated this wide range of musical experiences. Reviewing his album, “Silence-light” (Fresh Sound Records, 2007) recorded with his septet, La Abeille Musique(France) compared Arimany’s advanced exploration of the Flamenco universe to the jazz explorations of acclaimed guitarist Lionel Loueke, writing, “Percussionist, musician and nearly a musical philosopher inasmuch as his ideas are dense and open to the world, Nacho Arimany is without a shadow of a doubt a separate case on the sometimes compartmentalized flamenco scene….The result is an album which somewhat redefines for the 21st century a type of music, flamenco, already crossed by multiple musical experiences. Unique and indispensable.”

Silence-Light was consider by All About Jazz magazine , one of the Top 10 jazz album of the year.

He has also recorded for Sennheiser Audio technology company testing and creating samples of his music for their new prototype of microphone capturing Sound in 3D , to create immersive sounds experiences like their last innovative product AMBEO.

In Fall 2008, Nacho Arimany was commissioned to compose and conduct a new work for Global Perfussion, a gathering of 15 percussionists from around the world. The group reconvened in November 2009 touring in Bamako, Mali and the Canary Islands.  He settled in New York in 2009 and the next year, appeared at City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival in the U.S. premiere of “Rooted on Earth,” his acclaimed duet with Flamenco dancer Rafaela Carrasco.  Months later in 2010  was his BAM Café debut with his Nacho Arimany Trio along with pianist Robert Rodriguez and bassist Michael O’Brien beginning a very powerful and fruitful collaboration. During the fall of 2012 he presented in residence at La Mama experimental Theater in NYC his latest creation  “Landscapes of The Soul” a World-Jazz Multimedia concert along with his Trio and awarded film maker/video artist Laia Cabrera. In October 2015 Nacho has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with Duke Bojadziev & the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Lincoln Center in New York, among other venues around the world.

The style of his work is so new and original that it has resisted accurate labeling up to now.  While it is close to Jazz and Flamenco, it is an experience of world and natural sounds with influences of oriental melodies and Indian and West African percussion. Notwithstanding this confluence of influences, Flamenco rhythms are always prominent in Arimany Music, which he describes as “a prism with a lot of faces.”  Depending on the light, one of the faces is reflected and shining.  He has a Flamenco heart, but it depends on the day whether that shows.

Arimany’s musical innovations have forked into another avenue where they are being applied to sound therapy and transformational processes . On this field his contribution is remarkable as he has entirely composed, performed and produced the music of inTime a 9CD rhythm-based music listening therapeutic method created to improve brain function, developed in collaboration with Sheila Allen and Advanced Brain Technologies. The official debut of inTime was held in February 9th 2014 at Rockefeller’s University , Caspary Hall with  a panel discussion with neuroscientists and therapists,  and a solo concert by Nacho Arimany.

Among other prestigious venues and events  around the world and in NYC , like Lincoln Center and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art ,  Arimany has performed during the fall 2015 at Carnegie Hall as a vocal soloist with Duke Bojadziev & the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra and He has performed as guest artist at 2017 Latin Grammys Gala. 

His most recent project “ROOTS IN OUR HANDS” was premiere last summer at the prestigios Baalbeck International Festival, with 90 artists on stage . Directed artistically , composed and produce by Nacho Arimany in collaboration with the Spanish embassy and Baalbeck international Festival. 

Mixed in Los Angeles by 17 times Grammy producer Mr. Rafa Sardina.

Nacho Arimany is currently finalizing the production of the Music Album version of this project that will be summited to the Grammys  in 5 categories next year