Artist : Roger Mas
Release Date : January 1, 2010
Label : Satélite K
Format : CD
Buy Album :
Oriol Roca appears on the track La soledat, a catalan version of George Moustaki‘s Ma solitdue featuring Refree and Roger Mas
Artist : Anka Koziel
Release Date : March 24, 2009
Label : OAP Records
Format : CD
Recorded and produced by Barry Olthof at The Fieldwork Studio, Schoten, Belgium on 2009.
Mixed and mastered at O.A.P. Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Buy album:
What is possible in jazz can be heard in Tales Of The Forest, Anka Koziel’s debut album. The young Polish singer goes back to the songs she grew up with. Her jazz versions of two songs of compatriot Chopin with texts by the poet S.Witwicki, three Polish folksongs, her own ‘Spring Night’ inspired by Fauré’s ‘Clair de lune’ and her ‘Forest tale’, with its instrumental suggestion of mysterious sounds of woods, fit together wonderfully.
Romantic with pep; as well wild and high-spirited as dreamily enjoying the poetry: The force of spring, a very earthy ‘Red berry blues’ (Czerwone jagody) up to the funnily jumpy ‘Goldfish’ (Zlota rybka). ‘The face I love’, the only standard (M.Valle and R.Gilbert) fits like a glove with its first line ‘Just think of things like daffodils and peaceful sheep on clovered hills’. Koziels well-wrought arrangements guarantee the harmonious marriage of all these elements. Her international trio (Brice Soniano, bass, Oriol Roca, drums, Michal Vanoucek, piano) gets ample room for perfect counteraction with a beautiful role for the Slovak pianist.
Artist : Anita Zengeza
Release Date : August 27, 2013
Label : Whatabout Music
Format : CD
Produced and mixed by Dave Bianchi in The Emergency Room Studio
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert
Buy album:
After having traveled the world, Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Anita Zengeza was drawn by the magic of Barcelona, and it was there that she found inspiration to begin recording her debut self -titled album.
13 incredible musicians collaborated on this album, creating a rich fusion of sounds and colours. Anita’s songs are influenced by different cultures and genres of music – a creation so unique and personal that it becomes a genre in itself. Her voice is unique and expressive, full of sweetness and strength, a serenity that you can feel in each note.
This CD is a musical and emotional exploration that displays the creative journey that she has lived during the last few years, a journey that we can all travel together.
Artist : Samantha de Siena
Release Date : May 4, 2010
Label : Whatabout Music
Format : CD
Buy album:
It’s easy to imagine Samantha De Siena lost amongst the cobbled streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, laughing at the moon and piecing together the eight little gems that make up this bohemian dreamer’s sublime debut album, Here Inside. It’s very difficult not to fall to your knees at her feet while listening to a piece as delicate as I’m Coming. It almost sounds like a subtle mixture between the most transparent of Beth Gibbons and the most disconcerting of Cat Power.
Press
A compilation of songs, as fragile and delicate as her voice, enriched with exuberant arrangements which carry us into a universe as luscious as a greenhouse garden… Her music, which isn’t easy to classify, reminds us of Joanna Newsom’s dreamy folk. Time Out Magazine (June 2010)
Singer-songwriter debuts with an evocative and beautifully unique voice. The music matches perfectly, reminding us of the graceful way in which Tom Waits dishevels his own albums. El Periódico (September 2010)
Folk, coloured by strong influences of jazz, accompanied with delicate arrangements, together paint the beautiful picture that characterises this composer. Her voice at times reminds us of Beth Gibbons from the nineties, and at other times echoes Cat Power in her first albums. Here Inside is an elegant exercise in style, and a wonderful demonstration of the spell that was cast over this city, as it gave birth to new talent within each music genre. Mondosonoro (November 2010)
Artist : Various artists
Release Date : October 25, 2008
Label : Sonoesfera
Format : CD
Oriol Roca appears on the following tracks: Sólo se trata de vivir, Menuda, La nochera, L’emigrant and Carabelas nada by Immigrasons.
Artist : Altisent
Release Date : November 6, 2012
Label : Darklands
Format : CD
Buy album:
Songs and poems by singer-songwriter Lluís Altisent, including texts by Miquel Martí i Pol, Joan Margarit and Maria-Mercè Marçal.
Artist : Patricia de No & Cristina Casale
Release Date : October 1, 2015
Label : Solfa Recordings
Format : CD
Buy album:
Que tenen en comú compositors com Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Gary Shocker, Nikolai Kasputin, George Gershwin o Astor Piazzola? Les seves composicions s’han d’escoltar amb proximitat tot i la diversitat dels seus orígens.
Patricia de No i Cristina Casale recullen un extraordinari repertori per a flauta i piano que hi tenen cabuda els compositors francesos i d’altres compositors que freguen la modernitat estilística.
Patricia de No: flauta
Cristina Casale: piano
David Mengual: contrabaix
Oriol Roca: bateria
Artist : Mala Rodríguez & Original Jazz Orquestra
Release Date : November 10, 2008
Label : Mondo records
Format : CD
Hispanic hip-hop icon and Grammy awarded Mala Rodríguez revisits some of her hits next to producer Raül Fernández and the Original Jazz Orquestra Taller de Músics.
Artist : Chocadelia internacional
Release Date : March 29, 2005
Label : Pleyades Mix
Format : CD
Buy Album :
Oriol Roca plays percussion and vibraphone on Ranchory!!
Opera Prima del colectivo, Ranchory!!! surge de las experiencias en común bajo un mismo techo, el piso situado en el Eixample barcelonés apodado Rancho Marjory, nombre de su mascota o animal totémico, un pequeño pony enano de Wisconsin -que acabó decapitado en la fiesta de clausura del piso. Mas allá de esta anécdota, el rancho es una metáfora del espacio nihilista en el que se desarrolla nuestro discurso musical, lleno de referentes estéticos e ideológicos: el amor por las películas de serie B de terror y de karate, el comunismo y la guerra fría, el funk clásico, el uso creativo y recreativo de las drogas, los cómics underground americanos y hispanos, el surrealismo y las vanguardias artísticas de entre guerras y un profundo cachondísmo mental, tanto en lo sexual como en lo humorístico.
Abordaron esta aventura con la colaboración de grandes amigos que aportaron su talento a sus esquizofrénicas ideas: Paquito Sex Machine (de Fundación Tony Manero), Marian Barahona -ambos colaboradores habituales-, y Fermín Muguruza, David Riberas en el saxo, Oriol Roca y Ernesto W. Santamaría (FTM) en las percusiones, y dj Dare (Funkdamental) en el scratch.
Artist : Various artists
Release Date : September 2, 2009
Label : Discmedi
Format : CD
Buy Album :
Oriol Roca appears on the track Menuda, by Immigrasons.
Selección de artistas jóvenes, otros ya consolidados y algunos emblemáticos del pop-rock en catalán rindiendo homenaje al maestro de Poble Sec, Joan Manuel Serrat. Grupos como Antònia Font, Glissando, Refree, … cantantes y cantautores como Pascal Comelade, Sisa o Pau Riba, entre otros, versionando auténticos clásicos como Kubala, Cançó de bressol, Com ho fa el vent, Conillet de Vellut…