Celtic music.
"A musical trip to Keltia".

The musician of Asturian heritage, is along with Eliseo Mauas Pinto the other half soul of hte celtic band "Bran". Co-founder and co-writer, developes a personal guitar style that mingles new celtic moods with his past folk-rock influences. He also plays whistle and keywords.

By Xandru Reguera.

My first approach to music began when I was 13 years old. It was the year l973 when a bulk of music was composed by bands over the world, the launching of great english bands responsible of the Symphonic Rock movement, influenced me a lot. Since I couldn´t afford to buy a Keyboard (which I loved most), I began to study guitar. Rehearsing, composing, and improving techniques of rock, jazz, blues, and lately folk, specially after my first audition of the famous british band "Jethro Tull". At that time I lined up some rock bands and also wrote some songs for Children.

Aware of my Asturian heritage it was not until l989 when I first had contact with Celtic music. By those those days I had a job at a local book store where I chanced to look upon a tape of the Scottish band "Ossian" which stroked me most. On 1990 I came across the album "Dulaman" of the Irish band "Clannad", which finally led me into the world of celtic music, managing afterwards to get all their albums and of other celtic based bands too.

By the year 1995 I bought the legendary book of bardic contemporary poems "Celtic Legacy, wrote by Eliseo Mauas Pinto and Manuel Castro, and months later I had the chance to attend at a local show of the celtic folk band "Duir" (Eliseo´s band at that time) where I could not only listen celtic music alive in Buenos Aires, but also meet the lad whose poems I loved most. Since then a musical bondage began, and when Eliseo left "Duir" in October '97, we both founded "Bran" our present and everlasting musical experience, getting envolved day by day on my Asturian legacy and composing over celtic musical moods and lore.

By Xandru Reguera.