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Natural Jazz

"Love and solitude, based in a dreamy New York"

The story of a working class woman in her everyday life. How the things come and go, but she still there. And her Love flies away, like Jazz.

  • Arema Arega Arega-Negussie González
    Director
  • Arema Arega
    Writer
  • Arema Arega
    Producer
  • Arema Arega
    Key Cast
  • Arema Arega
    Camera
  • Daniel Francis-Berenson
    Camera
  • Yannis Lobaina
    Camera
  • Arema Arega
    Editor
  • Frank Guiller
    Still Photography
  • Daniel Francis-Berenson
    Still Photography
  • Sam Wheat
    Music - Mix & Master
  • Arema Arega
    Composer, Lyricist, Arranger, Music Producer & Singer
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Genres:
    art film, jazz
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 11, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada, Spain, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • New York Jazz Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    August 28, 2017
    North America Premiere at ImageNation Cinema Foundation
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Arema Arega Arega-Negussie González

BIO

Arema Arega, Voronezh, cold summer of 79, is a cuban singer-songwriter, music producer, painter and fashion designer, living in Barcelona. Born from an Ethiopian father and a Cuban mother, her work, both pictorial and musical, are the result of this mixture. There are Blues with Son, Bossa with Jazz, Folk with Funk and ChaChaCha. Everything under the tropical influence of Cuba.

She is also one of Winners of the VII Premio de Ibermúsicas for Songwriters and one of the artists on the album Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura : The Search Continues and the Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura: Anthology. She was also invited by Bahama Soul Club to collaborate on their Albums The Cuban Tapes, The Havana ´58 , The Havana Remixes,"Bohemia After Dawn" and the Club des Belugas's Album Nine. The EP Blue Bossa - My Feeling released by Ramrock Records is a collaboration with the UK artist Born74. Her last releases, as a solo artist, are the Albums The Red Soundtracks, The Blue Soundtracks: The Light Seekers Journey and singles that are all part of The Soundtracks by Arema Arega, a developing project created as a score for an imaginary film, where she composes, produces, arranges and also makes her own music videos to introduce the listener to her cinematic world.

Radio:
Played on BBC, JazzFM, WorldWideFM, RNE, Catalunya Ràdio, Radio Gladys Palmera, Totally Wired Radio, Soho Radio London, 6TownsRadio, FipRadio, RTBF (Belgium), RTVE (Spain), Cuban National Radio & TV, RaiRadio3...

Some Press:
https://www.tarantobuonasera.it/news/92545/da-cuba-a-barcellona-il-sound-di-arema-arega/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/13/gilles-peterson-presents-havana-cultura-review
https://somethingelsereviews.com/2019/02/11/arema-arega-red-soundtracks/
https://gladyspalmera.com/actualidad/noche-azul-lonely-lovers/
https://gladyspalmera.com/actualidad/night-of-love-de-arema-arega/

Music Video NATURAL JAZZ
*Selected for New York Jazz Film Festival

*Winner of the Ibermúsicas VII Singer-Songwriter Contest 2020 with the song SOY
http://ibermusicas.org/index.php/ganadores/

Electronic Life MUSIC VIDEO Oficial Selection of:
*Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival 2022

The Two Kingdoms by Arema Arega
(Soundtrack of the animation AS IT IS)

- OFFICIAL SELECTION -
*Toronto International Women Film Festival - 2021
*Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF) - 2021
*Hollywood Art and Movie Awards - 2022
*New York Independent Cinema Awards - 2022
* 8 & Halfilm Awards (Rome) - 2022 (Winner Best Animation)
*Florence Film Awards

Releases
2011 - Havana Cultura Compilation by Gilles Peterson
2013 - The Cuban Tapes - Album (Bahama Soul Club) feat. Artist
2014 - Mirando al Mar (Single)
2015 - Where I belong (Single)
- Fresco (Single)
- Why (Single)
2016 - Havana 58 - Album (Bahama Soul Club) feat. Artist
- Havana Cultura Anthology
2017 - Natural Jazz (Single)
2018 - Natural Jazz - TheRemix (Single)
- Blue Bossa - My Feeling (EP) Born74 & Arema Arega
- The Traveler
2019 - The Red Soundtracks - Album
- The Blue Soundtracks - The Light Seekers Journey
- Christmas song (Single) Arema Arega & Cinematic
- Wherever you are (Single)
- Que la Conga (Single)
- Natural Jazz Remixes (EP)
2020 - Bohemia After Dawn - Album (Bahama Soul Club) feat. Artist
- Electronic Life (Single)
- Shake (Single)
- Mango (EP) Bahama Soul Club & Arema Arega
- Night of Love (Single)
- I see you in the Sunlight (Single)
- Lonely Lovers (Single)
- Acapella Session (EP)
- So Wrong (Single)
- They Never Came Back (Single)
2021 - I Saw You in the Wind (Single)
- No Time to Regret (Single)
- All will be Over - Awakening (Single)
- SOY (Single)
- Pushing Boundaries (Mad) (Single)
- That Cuban Rhythm (EP) ( with Born74, feat. Regis Molina)
- La Serpiente de mi tierra (Single)
- Always in the air
- The Two Kingdoms
2022 - Dream of Life, Dream of Love

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Director Statement

This is my first time as a filmmaker a music video that reflected the nature of my Album The Red Soundtracks, that was made with the collaboration of friends. I called this video the First step of my filmmaker Dream.