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This power trio is a new band
founded by German guitarist and
composer Amir-John Haddad (ExRadio Tarifa). The band Members of
Parliament combines all elements of
funk, rock and heavy metal mixed
with edges of hip hop. It’s a band
based on heavy and powerful riffs,
tight, groovy beats and authentic
lyrics with a strong social, emotional
and political content. The band has
recorded their 12-track debut
album “SERIOUS BUSINESS”
featuring renowned bass player
“Armand Sabal-Lecco” (Stanley
Clark, Paul Simon, Jeff Beck, Jaco
Pastorius), Maurice London (USA,
Germany) and legendary “
MC Terry” (Sindicatos del Crimen).
Band Members:
Amir-John Haddad – lead vocals, electric guitar, electric oud – (Germany)
Mr. H – electric bass, vocals – (Spain)
Coki Giménez – Drums – (Spain)
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MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT obtains it’s musical influence from bands like Metallica,
Mother’s Finest, Living Colour, Bad Brains, Rage Against the Machine, King’s X,
Biohazard, Rob Halford, Soundgarden, Pantera… to name some of them. The band has
a personal concept with a strong attitude and the music will definitely get your
attention. Their sound is bright, powerful and positive! This power trio is a “must see”
for all Heavy-Funk-Rock-Metal-Lovers.
“Guitar, bass & drums come together once again to express the pure essence of a
rock trio!”
“The idea is to create a “musical parliament” where everybody has the same rights
and the same freedom to be himself without fears and prejudice!”
"Come on in, feel the heat, dig the ride and groove to the beat!!!”
"SERIOUS BUSINESS"
New album out soon!!
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SONGLIST ON DEBUT ALBUM
“SERIOUS BUSINESS”
1. Serious Business
2. I Don’t Believe
3. King in Town
4. Criminal Addiction
5. Sweet Betrayal
6. Can You Hear Me Crying
7. Here I Go
8. Highway 101
9. Freedom
10. Waste of Time
11. Don’t be so fearful
12. Transgenic
All songs composed & arranged by Amir. Produced by Amir & Mr.H.
Recorded at Santa Fé Studios. Performed by Members of Parliament.
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Amir-John Haddad was born In Freiburg Germany (Black Forest) in 1975 with a
Colombian and Palestinian background. He was raised and educated in Germany and
lived for a short while in Bogotá (Colombia). Since childhood he hasn’t stopped
travelling and has been always in contact with music. His family environment taught
him how to play music by ear. He learned music, his future language, by oral
transmission and was only 8 years old when he officially started studying the Flamenco
guitar after learning Arabic oud at home by the hand of his father and first teacher
Rimon Haddad. Amir started playing live at school venues when he was 7 years old and
by the age of 12 he gave his first public concert on a “real” stage. Since a very small age
Amir was led to diverse music styles from South American folklore to classical music,
classical Arabic and Oriental music over to African music, Flamenco music… as well as
western influences like Jazz, Rock, Funk, Pop, Metal, Fusion… “When I was seven years
old our TV quit working and my parents didn’t replace it so from that moment on I
was raised without TV at home and that was very important to my playing and my
innocent and creative approach to music!”
Years later in 1997 Amir decided to move further south to live and study guitar in one
of the most important birthplaces of Flamenco, Jerez de la Frontera (Andalucía-Spain).
As he says: “I left Germany with my guitar and a suitcase full of illusions &
expectations! I wanted to learn this art form the traditional way by oral transmission
in the streets meeting the artists and make my experiences through living with the
people and share many moments of “juerga” (Flamenco jam all night long)!” During
his period in Andalucía he was disciple of famous guitar maestros like Pepe
Justicia and Enrique de Melchor. This experience was going to be very important for
his career.
In 1998 Amir moved on to Madrid to find new frontiers and keep on growing
professionally as a musician and find a place in the music scene, “I wanted to make a
living out of what I liked the most! I couldn’t imagine myself in the future without
playing my instrument!” He played in famous Flamenco Tablaos such as Las
Carboneras, Café de Chinitas, Corral de la Pacheca, Casa Patas etc.
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It was in Madrid when Amir was invited to join and play with the legendary and
famous Spanish World Music Band Radio Tarifa. Amir was the official oud, bouzouki
and guitar player for almost ten years and made many world tours through a large
number of countries and cities. In 1999 he won the first prize for original musical
composition at the national “Certamen de Coreografia de Danza Española y
Flamenco” at the Teatro Albeniz in Madrid.
Since then he had the opportunity to work, record and tour with various artists like:
Joaquín Ruiz, Maestro Ciro, Eliseo Parra, Jorge Pardo, Tomasito, Navajita Plateá,
Raimundo Amador, Miguel Flores Quirós “El Capullo de Jerez”, Melendi, Inmaculada
Ortega, Pepe Justicia, Belen Fernandez, Carmela Greco, Jose Luis Monton, Enrique de
Melchor, Juan Parrilla, David Cereduela, Antonio Canales, Antonio Carrion, David
Serva, Eva Durán, Peter Oteo, Alejandro Granados, Talegon de Cordoba, Juan Ogalla,
Domingo Ortega, Olga Pericet, Carmina Cortes, Salva de Maria, Manuel Liñan,
Marcos Flores, Manuel Palacin, Carmen Fernandez, Tino di Geraldo, Joaquín
Escudero, Manuel de la Malena, Luís de la Tota, Alfonso Losa, Jose Antonio Galicia
“El Gali”, Teresa Nieto, Yrvis Mendez Raymond, Aziz Kuyateh, Evgeny Pimonenko,
Geovany da Silveira, Cristian Miño, Tom Schlüter, Alejandra Gutty, Eduardo Dorda,
Manuel de Lucena, Sebastián Rubio, Susana Weich Shahak, Maher Sissoko, Jesus
Torres, Jesus de Rosario, Toni Maya, Los Losada, Rocio Molina, Imran Khan, Leonor
Moro, Ricardo Espinosa, Soulfoot, El Jaleo, Rafael de Huelva, Mariano Martin,
Prashant Shah, Murad Ali, Isabel Montero, Guadiana, Finn Martin, Kaushik Basu,
Rafael Jiménez “El Falo”, José Menese, Lole Montoya, Rafael Amargo, Gerardo
Nuñez, Javier Paxariño, Naseer Shamma, Canal +, just to mention some of them.
Amir has toured countries like:
England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Norway,
Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Ireland, USA,
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Morocco, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria,
Canada, Denmark…
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Amir has performed at venues like:
-The Royal Festival Hall (London) –Barbican Centre (London) –Royal Albert Hall
(London) –The Hot House (Chicago) –Town Hall (New York) –Luna Park (Los Angeles)
–Teatro Campesino (San Juan Bautista California) –Teatro Bellini (Palermo) –Cabaret
Sauvage (Paris) –Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) –Teatro Tivoli (Barcelona) –
Zellerbach Hall (Berkley) –Sala Apolo (Barcelona) –Sala Bikini (Barcelona) –BBC4
(London) –Chapel Hill (London) –Roskilde Festival 1999 (Denmark) -Kulturhuset
(Stockholm) -Cosmopolite (Oslo) -NJPAC (New Jersey) –Emerson Majestic Theatre
(Boston) –Dranouter Festival (Belgium) –Teatro Häagen Dazs (Madrid) –Teatro
Albeniz (Madrid) -Citadel (Cairo) –Womad Madrid –Womad Canary Island –Festival
de Jerez 2007/2010 –Fiesta de la Buleria 2007 (Jerez de la Frontera) –Teatro Libre
(Bogotá) –Teatro Media Torta (Bogotá) –Jazz Festival (Bogotá) –Cumbre Tajin
(Veracruz-Mexico) –Feria Internacional del Libro (Guadalajara-Mexico) -SESC (Sao
Paolo) -Edimbourgh Festival –Tumb of the Kings (Jerusalem) –Jazz Festival (Istambul)
–Conde Duque (Madrid) –Sziget Festival (Budapest) -A38 (Budapest), Fliegende
Bauten (Hamburg) …and many others.
You can find Amir John Haddad on recordings like:
-Fiebre (Radio Tarifa) Nominated for Latin Grammy Awards 2004
-Dos Cero Cero infinito (Cronometro Budu)
-Ouruborus (Javier Paxariño)
-El poder de la raiz (Navajita Plateá)
-De ayer mañana (Eliseo Parra)
-Diez (Live DVD Eliseo Parra)
-Aires del norte (Jesus Torres)
-La cabra tira al monte (Entre coche y anden)
-Sobrellevé (Ezequiel Benitez)
-De ida y vuelta (Patricia Prieto)
-Psicomotriz (GN3)
-Centryfugal (Centryfugal)
-Garia (Isabel Montero)
-Comprende Flamenco (Faustino Nuñez)
-Lo Mejor pa Tí (Chambao)
-Joana Jimé
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He has recorded soundtracks for theatre plays, dance choreographies, publicity, tv
documentaries.
After releasing his first solo guitar album “Pasando por Tabernas”in 2006 with German
record label Double Moon Records, this autumn 2012 he will surprise us with his new
flamenco guitar album “9 Guitarras”, a tribute to the flamenco guitar and to all the
guitar builders who have made the guitars Amir has been using on each track.
Amir has his own flamenco band called “El Amir” Flamenco Sextet where he combines
pure and authentic flamenco with oriental elements and sounds such as adding Arabic
oud or Greek bouzouki to his compositions.
He further has released the debut album “UNO” with his World Music band Zoobazar
produced by Carlos Raya one of Spain’s most demanded producers (M-Clan, Fito y
Fitipaldis, Chambao…). “Uno” has had great acceptance and has been acclaimed by the
most prestigious world music press in the music business.
Amir has recorded on Chambao’s latest album “Lo mejor pa ti” and this year he is one
of the special features playing with the band during their live tour.
Amir applies his musical and cultural heritage in order to achieve a new sound whether
it’s Flamenco, Rock, Oriental, Fusion or any other type of music he tries to approach,
he does it without loosing the strong character and emotional sense of each music
style. His further interest in music has led him to play besides the flamenco guitar
various instruments like: Bouzouki, Turkish saz, mandola, banjo, electric oud, electric
guitar and bass.
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Hector Tellini was born in Asturias, Spain in 1975. Since a very early age he has been
very interested in music and sound. This made him learn how to play the electric bass
at a young age. He kept growing on his instrument until he decided to start
simultaneously a career as a sound engineer. During that time he started playing with
several bands and working both as a musician and sound technician.
Hector Tellini has played among others in bands like GN3, Playskull, Grandma James,
Members of Parliament and ZooBazar.
He has toured countries like:
Spain, France, England, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Holland, Japan, Serbia, Costa Rica,
etc…
We can underline his work as a studio- and recording-engineer at important and
famous recording studios in Madrid such as ASK, PKO, SANTA FE PRODUCCIONES
etc… There he had the opportunity to work in music productions for famous artists
like:
KELVIS, LA CABRA MECÁNICA, DWOMO, ARIEL ROTH, DOVER, QUIQUE GONZALEZ,
SHAKIRA, DAVID BROZA, MIGUELI, CARLOS BECEIRO & DIEGO GALAZ (Bailes
Vespertinos), LA MUSGAÑA, TURISTAS ESPACIALES, JOAN MANUEL SERRAT, JUAN
PARDO, CIRCODELIA, PASIÓN VEGA and many more.
Hector Tellini has participated as well on publicity recordings and has collaborated
during the sound production of important Spanish motion pictures like:
“Hable con ella” directed by PEDRO ALMODOVAR and “Los lunes al sol” directed by
FERNANDO LEÓN DE ARANOA. Hector has published an album called “Psicomotriz”
with his own band GN3. Hector Tellini has a unique and wide range of sounds using
various effect pedals and has a perfect balance between different rock styles.
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Coki Gimenez was born in Málaga in 1977. He has been playing drums since he was 14
years old. He studied with Miguel Morales at the school of Groove in Jaén (Spain) but
mainly we can say that he's a self taught drummer. He mainly is a session and studio
musician. Besides his tight schedule he also teaches private classes and clinics. He's
well known for his live work with Spanish rock band M-Clan and Flamenco Chill
Chambao. His personal project is a jazz trio called Toonik.
Coki Giménez is one of the most important and most demaded session drummers of Spain. He
has been in the recording business since the year 2000. He's played and recorded for Danza
Invisible, Javier Ojeda, Chambao, Manzanita, Amaral, M-Clan, ...
Danza Invisible. "Pura Danza" (2003)
Fulano. Malaga crearock (2003)
Chambao. "Pokito a poko" (2005)
Chambao. "Chambao Puro (DVD) (2006)
Javier Ojeda. "Polo Sur" (2006)
Juanito Makandé. "Sueña" (2006)
Chambao. "Con otro Aire". (2007)
Toonik. (2008)
Olefunk. "Olefunk". (2009)
Amaral. "Granada" EP promo revista Efeeme. (2009)
Amaral. "La barrera del sonido". (2009)
Maktub. (2010)
Konfusión (2010)
Hermanas sisters. "Songs for disfunctional lovers". (2010)
Mario Díaz. "Gloria Bendita". (2010)
Angel Capel. "Solo pienso en tí". (2010)
M-Clan. "Para no ver el final". (2010)
Recopilación Artistas. "con piel de Manzana, homenaje a Manzanita". (2011)
Daniel Casares. "El ladrón del agua". (2011)
Los Aslandticos. (2011)