Ricardo Gallo

Colombian pianist and composer Ricardo Gallo has written for acoustic and electro-acoustic formats, for short films, videos, dance, installations, and multimedia stage productions, and has performed and written for improvisatory groups. He has published 14 albums as a leader.
His Bogotá-based quartet, active since 2005, has developed a repertoire and an improvisational approach that integrates an avant-garde and free language with rhythmic and melodic elements from folkloric musical traditions. The Cuarteto has released 6 albums: Los Cerros Testigos (2005), Urdimbres y Marañas (2007), Resistencias (2010), Tribu del Asfalto (2013), En Tránsito (2018), and Novara 2012 (2022).
Currently in New York, he leads the tropical-electric-groovy band Los ALiENs releasing the LP Odd Subjects in 2022 with Juga Music.
With Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, they release the album "La niebla vital, Wiraqochan" in 2022 with Hueso Records.
Other notable duos with guitarist Alejandro Flórez, publishing in 2009 the album Meleyolamente, and Algo Más Melódico in 2019 both for Festina Lente Discos. With singer Juanita Delgado they published Canciones internas y de otras partes in 2016.
He led the group Tierra de Nadie, with trombonist Ray Anderson, saxophonist Dan Blake, bassist Mark Helias, and percussionists Pheeroan akLaff and Satoshi Takeishi; releasing The Great Fine Line in 2010 under Clean Feed Records.