Javier Limón
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Javier Limón |
| image | Premios Goya 2019 - Javier Limón.jpg |
| caption | A record producer, singer and songwriter |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Madrid, Spain |
| genre | Rock, pop, flamenco |
| occupation | Record producer, singer-songwriter |
| label | Casa Limón |
| associated_acts | Fernando Trueba, Bebo Valdés, Diego El Cigala, Estrella Morente |
| website | |
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| name = Javier Limón | image = Premios Goya 2019 - Javier Limón.jpg | caption = A record producer, singer and songwriter | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = | birth_place = Madrid, Spain | death_date = | origin = | genre = Rock, pop, flamenco | occupation = Record producer, singer-songwriter | label = Casa Limón | associated_acts = Fernando Trueba, Bebo Valdés, Diego El Cigala, Estrella Morente | website =
Javier Limón (born 1973) is a record producer, singer and songwriter born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Limón has worked with several artists, mainly from Spain, since he incorporates elements of flamenco rhythm to his work. Besides his work as producer has also dabbled as an interpreter and has released three studio albums, Limón, Son de Limón and Mujeres de Agua. Since 2003, Limón has done recordings in Israel, Bogotá, Bristol, Paris, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, New York City and Morocco. Javier Limón serves as the Artistic Director of the Berklee College of Music's Mediterranean Music Institute, which operates in Valencia, Spain as well as Boston, Massachusetts.
Background
After completing his musical studies in piano and guitar at the Conservatory of Madrid and at New York's Saint Francis Prep., Limón began his professional career composing flamenco songs for artists such as Enrique Morente, Estrella Morente, Remedios Amaya, Potito and Montse Cortés. Following this first stage, he started his career as a record producer with Cositas Buenas by Paco de Lucía, Lágrimas Negras by Bebo Valdés and Diego El Cigala and El Pequeño Reloj by Enrique Morente. | last = Mora | first = Miguel | year = 2006 | title = Javier Limón, productor y compositor | journal = La Voz de los Flamencos: Retratos y Autoretratos | publisher = Ediciones Siruela | volume = | issue = | page = 307 | isbn = 9788498411652 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EB_UEEfmlU0C&q=javier+limon&pg=PA307 | accessdate = December 23, 2010}} The album earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album and received a nomination for Album of the Year. Lágrimas Negras stayed in the Spanish Album Charts for over 100 weeks. In 2009, Limón was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for the album Juntos Para Siempre, another collaboration with Bebo Valdés.
Musical style and production
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To produce, Limón uses editing software such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, mixing material in an analog way, not digital, and then "edit[ing] the album in the appropriate format." Limón acknowledges that to make music in modern times, artists can "skip all the costs of intermediaries, but there's nothing like a studio where everyone can play at once, but that costs money to keep." The main idea for Limón's production style is not to rely too heavily on the recording technology, so the final result documents the actual performance in the studio as closely as possible. Besides flamenco, Limón works in other musical genres. "There's electronic stuff [that] will be interesting to tackle. Now I'm doing some hip-hop, which also interests me."
About his lyrical style, Limón prefers free metric while writing traditional flamenco music, which is written in tercets, quatrains and cinquains with classic rhymes. "I consider that my lyrics have content. I sometimes write the lyrics before the music. And I've noticed that one of the interesting ways to enrich the flamenco composition is to write poetry that is not in octosyllabic or heroic verse," said Limón to Flamenco World. Limón is a fan of Japanese haiku, since he admitted that "the most beautiful flamenco poetry has been written in haikus."
Casa Limón
Limón started his own record label, Casa Limón, with the help of a sponsor (a brand of beer named 1906). The album received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Flamenco Album. Concha Buika recorded her first album with Casa Limón and sold 150,000 units in Spain.
In 2010, Limón produced and composed Mujeres de Agua, a collaboration album with performances by Mariza, Buika, La Shica, Montse, Genara, Aynur, Eleftheria, Estrella, Yasmin Levy, Susi, Sandra and Carmen Linares. Mujeres de Agua peaked at number 14 in the Spanish album charts.
Discography
- Limón (2005)
- Son de Limón (2008)
- Mujeres de Agua (2010)
- Promesas de Tierra (2013)
- Oro (Original SoundTrack) (2017)
- Refugio del Sonido (2018)
- Todos Lo Saben (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
- OQ (album) (2018)
References
References
- "Javier Limón — Biography". [[Rovi Corporation]].
- Skelly, Matt. "Mediterranean Music Institute Launches". Berklee News.
- "Javier Limón". Flamenco World.
- "Lista de nominados al los Grammy Latinos". Terra Networks México.
- "Javier Limón — Charts & Awards". [[Rovi Corporation]].
- Calado, Silvia. "Paco de Lucía es el verdadero productor del flamenco". Flamenco World.
- "Javier Limón – Encuentros digitales". elmundo.es.
- "Javier Limón – Mujeres de Agua (album)". Hung Medien.
- "Promesas de Tierra {{!}} Berklee College of Music".
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