The young vibraphonist Andrés Coll (Ibiza, 2000) is already considered a virtuoso in his field and is on his way to writing his name in capital letters in the vast world of music. The performer, composer and researcher, who shares the stage with prestigious musicians such as jazz pianist Joachim Kühn, is also the promoter of a number of musical projects that fuse the traditional music of Ibiza with other cultures of the world, using a modern approach that has overtones of jazz, avant-garde and African music.
If he has to label it, Andrés Coll calls his music avant-groove, because it mixes “that restlessness of getting ahead and not settling into the comfort zone, with a foundation of tradition and culture from where we are from, and traditional rhythms, whether from Africa, Ibiza or whoever you are collaborating with. It’s a mix of all those worlds,” explains the musician, who is also a multi-instrumentalist and usually performs on stages on the island, but also on the peninsula and in Europe, equipped with his electric marimba and his Ibizan castanyoles (castanets).
Despite his youth, Andrés Coll can boast of a long musical career that began as a child with his sister’s piano, as well as serving on the Ibiza Board of Music and with the ball pagès from Sa Colla de Vila – a traditional Ibizan dance – where he teaches boys and girls who, like he once did, are getting to know the deep roots of Ibizan music.
A present and future of tradition and movement that takes us to a different experimental perspective.
