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Bad Brothers’ is a funk and fun work for bass quartet where, for the first time, the
composer included space for an open improvisation. …Simón García writes: “I wrote this piece in October 2007 for my friend Damian
Arenas and his bass quartet ‘Cuarteto de Contrabajos de Madrid’. They were looking
for new ‘spicy’, Repertoire and were playing with an electric bass guitar of a known
brand that was their sponsor so I wrote a piece where this instrument had a
prominent role. I wrote a funk piece with a section where the electric bass guitar
could improvise on a structure, like a usual jazz piece with 32 bars and AABA form
and easy harmony, so it could be played by experienced musicians and those not so
experienced in improvisation.” Bad Brothers was premiered in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) by ‘Gravissimo’
Double Bass, Quartet (Marta García, Alfonso Morán, Saúl Puga and the composer) at
the ‘Via Stellae’ Festival in July 2008. In 2009 The Bass Gang included it in its, Repertoire and since then it has been played
in many countries including Spain, México, Japan, Austria, Italy, Uruguay and
Switzerland among others.