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In 2017, I participated in the compilation of a monumental book, Retrats Músics Andorra, which contains portraits of all the Andorran musicians active at the time. The architects of this monumental work are the photographers Lluís Casahuga, Robert Verdaguer and José Otero, whose leader is the long-lost Pep Aguareles. 66 images depict precise moments in the country’s music.
Pep, learning of my interest in collecting up-to-date data on the country’s musicians and bands, asked me to write a collection of material on the world of Andorran musicians over the last few decades, which prompted me to expand what I had been collecting for some time by asking friends such as Jordi De Miguel or Tet Bazan.
To supplement the information I already had, I initiated three sessions, one with Gerard Clarett, another with Demi, and another with Jordy Rule, three very different fields, classical, rock, and dance music.
Jordi and I have known each other for many years and it was he who got Oscar Lauredo, Luis Cartes, Roger Casamajor and me to play together for the first time. We had already played together in different projects, but the four of us came together because of the public big band he created with all the wind instrument students of the Conservatory. It was during this conversation that I discovered that it was he and his father who laid the cornerstone of modern music in this country in 1962 when Melchor Larrosa hired Joan Roure to liven up the party hall.
We talked about another Andorra, an Andorra where no work was done in the winter and the party hall was open only during the seven months of good weather, an Andorra where everyone knew everyone else and where, when Joan had settled in, members of the Andorra Moral and Recreation Center learned about a musician in the valley and suggested that he form a choir, which eventually became the Andorra Orfeo Chorus.
While playing in his father’s orchestra, he was responsible not only for the trumpet but also for the vera and later for the electric bass, or bass guitar as he called it.
He is very proud to be part of a team of musicians. “My grandfather was already a trumpet player – he told me – my father was also a trumpet player and composer, I am a trumpet player and my daughters are also musicians”. His eldest daughter Ana is a piano teacher. Marta was Andorra’s representative in our first Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “Jugarem a estimarnos”, which made our language heard for the first time in the contest. Now, Marta is resuming her career after a break and has released a series of singles, the latest of which is “Requiem #Envena”.
Either way, a musician we are very grateful for has left. Generous and respectful. He will be missed. Rest in peace, Jody.
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