Xime Monzón - My Harp My Soul

Album: My Harp My Soul
Size: 82,7 MB
Time: 35:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. My Harp My Soul (3:31)
2. Scratch My Back (4:48)
3. Blues Never Die (4:44)
4. Something You Got (4:08)
5. Blue Carnegie (3:01)
6. Walter's Boogie (3:26)
7. Stranger Blues (3:16)
8. Baby Please Don't Go (3:23)
9. Everybody's Fishin' (2:34)
10. Rainin' In My Heart (2:47)

Ximena (Xime) Monzón is a harmonica player and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began taking her first harmonica lessons in mid 2006, with Pablo Brotzman and Adrián Jiménez, and in 2009 Gabriel Gratzer (Director of the School of Blues) invited her to participate in assemblies of School of Blues (Collegium Musicum). She has played as a guest with many local musicians on numerous recordings, and in 2011 she started working on her solo project along with Federico Verteramo on guitar, Mauro Bonamico on bass, and Rodrigo Benbassat and German Pedraza on drums.

Xime has played at clubs and festivals all across Argentina, and she has also been traveling a lot outside her country performing at blues festivals in Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile along with well known blues artists like Lurrie Bell, Vino Louden, Mike Wheeler, Flàvio Guimarães and Alamo Leal. Her influences are the great masters of blues harmonica such as Walter Horton, Sam Myers, Little Walter, Sonny Boy I and II, Billy Branch, Lazy Lester, Slim Harpo, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell and many others.

Personnel: Xime Monzón (harmonica, vocals); Santiago Espósito, Federico Verterano (guitar); Mauro Bonamico (bass); Rodrigo Benbassat, Germán Pedraza (drums).

Originally posted by Bluestender on June 12, 2018. Updated from VBR to 320 with full art.

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Xime Monzon Band - En Vivo

Album: En Vivo
Size: 90,1 MB
Time: 39:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. I Wonder Why (2:47)
2. Lonely Days And Nights (2:58)
3. Scratch My Back/I Love The Life I'm Living (8:29)
4. So Crazy About You Baby (2:57)
5. Checkin' On My Baby (3:26)
6. Where Did You Go Last Night (3:44)
7. Lonesome Child (Feat. Junior Binzugna) (4:56)
8. In The Midnight Hour (Feat. Marcelo Ariño) (3:10)
9. Sheimy/Outro Boogie (6:31)

Ximena (Xime) Monzón is a harmonica player and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began taking her first harmonica lessons in mid 2006, with Pablo Brotzman and Adrián Jiménez, and in 2009 Gabriel Gratzer (Director of the School of Blues) invited her to participate in assemblies of School of Blues (Collegium Musicum). She has played as a guest with many local musicians on numerous recordings, and in 2011 she started working on her solo project along with Federico Verteramo on guitar, Mauro Bonamico on bass, and Rodrigo Benbassat and German Pedraza on drums.

Xime has played at clubs and festivals all across Argentina, and she has also been traveling a lot outside her country performing at blues festivals in Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile along with well known blues artists like Lurrie Bell, Vino Louden, Mike Wheeler, Flàvio Guimarães and Alamo Leal. Her influences are the great masters of blues harmonica such as Walter Horton, Sam Myers, Little Walter, Sonny Boy I and II, Billy Branch, Lazy Lester, Slim Harpo, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell and many others.

Personnel: Xime Monzón (vocals, harmonica); Frederico Verteramo (guitar, vocals); Mauro Bonamico (bass, vocals); Germán Pedrza (drums); Anahí Fabiani (piano). Guests: Junior Binzugna (harmonica, vocals track 7); Marcelo Ariño (vocals track 8).

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VA - 4 Armonicas Argentinas: Blues En Movimiento Vol. 3

Size: 118,9 MB
Time: 50:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Xime Monzon - My Kind Of Baby (3:07)
02. Damian Duflos - Dynamite (4:11)
03. Jorge Costales - St James Infirmary (5:09)
04. Cesar Valdomir - Blues In The Dark (3:01)
05. Damian Duflos - I Want To Be Loved (2:21)
06. Xime Monzon - Bring It On Home To Me (5:54)
07. Cesar Valdomir - Eyesight To The Blind (4:47)
08. Jorge Costales - Long Distance Call (7:00)
09. Cesar Valdomir - Up The Line (3:42)
10. Damian Duflos - Dont' Leave Me (2:40)
11. Jorge Costales - Harp Burn (3:27)
12. Xime Monzon - Sad Hours (5:09)

The native of Esquel and settled for some years in Neuquen, Damian Duflos, opens with the powerful Dynamite, Slim Harpo, accompanied by bluesy guitar teacher Don Vilanova and Julio Fabiani on second guitar, more rhythmic sound made by Mauro Diana on bass and Gabriel Cabiaglia on drums. On I want to be loved, the remarkable harmonica player of Jackpots introduces his daughter Emiliana, with just nine years he sang the theme song of Muddy Waters in a surprising way, supported nothing more and nothing less than the Easy Babies. Finally, Duflos used his musical brother Rafo Grin and an original composition in English, Do not leave me, delicious jazzy notes of his chromatic harmonica.

From Cordoba, Cesar Valdomir elected three of its top musical references for its contribution to the project. Accompanied by Easy Babies or talents as keyboardist Nico Raffetta or guitarist James "Rulo" Garcia versionó George Smith (Blues in the dark), (Sonny Boy Williamson (Eyesight to the blind) and Little Walter (Up the line) . In each issue, the musician shows poise and magic that encourages the Cordoba night blues.

Jorge Costales and Evil Band performs with extraordinary cover St. James Infirmary, sung by Guido Venegoni (vocalist Thames), and then face a more urban sound and crude Long distance call Muddy Waters, sung with great vigor by Mauro Diana. Costales ends his very instrumental on participation with Rod Piazza, Harp burn.

Ximena Monzon, the youngest of the quartet armoniquistas chose two themes of Little Walter, My kind of baby and Sad hours, to show their progress with the harmonica, and Bring it on home to me, Sam Cooke, which concentrates more that nothing in the song. Santiago guitarist and bassist Mauro Esposito Bonamico, of Old Station, southpaw Pato Raffo Federico Verteramo on drums and the support in his three appearances.

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