“Por el sendero” is an exquisite album of argentine folklore that counts on twelve delicate versions of recognized authors of the most traditional Argentine song book and also of the framed one in the new tendencies of the sort. In each interpretation Ignacio Escribano transfers the word and melodía at the present moment, giving a new sense and refreshing an essential repertoire, where Atahualpa Yupanqui, Hnos. Nuñez and Chabuca Granda coexist with younger composers, such as Jorge Fandermole and Alberto Rojo. The album is accompanied with the exquisite guitar, the arrangements and the musical direction of the recognized guitarist and arreglador Raúl Peña. First class musician have also been invited for the recording sessions: Máximo Rodríguez in bass, Osvaldo Avena and Jose Avena in percussion, Néstor Acuña (accordion in subject 7), Diego Clemente (sicus, quenacho and charango in subject 8), Quique Condomí (violin in subject 12) and Gustavo Lopez (accessories in subjects 1, 4, 5 and 7). Ignacio Escribano was born in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, in 1969. Although he began to play the guitar and to sing from his childhood, music was going to get more protagonism and importance in his life in the last fifteen years, when he started performing live and recording in a professional way. He studied guitar with outstanding professors like Lucila Saab (classic), Agustín Pereyra Lucena (bossa nova), Raúl Peña and Roberto Calvo (argentine folklore). Regarding singing, he was student of Maria Jose Cantilo, Lorena Astudillo, Patricia Andrade, Ida Terkiel de Pecheni, Livia Barbosa and Luciano Bassi. At the beginning of 2004, after he returned from Europe (he got a scholarship to study Hinduism and Buddhism in Cambridge University, Englnad, and then took a free year and lived mostly in Berlin, Stockholm and New York), Ignacio began to performe alive, like solista, accompanied by top of the line musician, such as Raúl Peña, in guitar and Osvaldo Avena, in percussion (both of them played with several famous argentine artists, such as Mercedes Sosa, Ariel Ramírez, Jaime Torres y Susana Rinaldi, among others; Osvaldo Avena, for instance, was Mercedes Sosa´s percussionist for more ten years). In his performances Ignacio interprets mainly songs of argentine folklore and Brazilian pop music; but he also performs other Latinamerican songs. Between January and March of 2005, he recorded his first CD, “Por el sendero”. The album was received with great comments from the public and the press as well. More about his life Ignacio lived most of his life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a medical doctor in 1993 (University of Buenos Aires) and specialized in internal medicine. In 1994, he moved to Boston, where he stayed for a year and a half. After that time, he went back to Argentina and started and studying music again, and decided to quit his profession as a physician. Since then he earned his living as a journalist (writing mostly for La Nación newspaper, from Buenos Aires) and also leading a project of citizen journalism, called Igooh. Music is his main activities nowadays. Indra Mantras, a mantras pop project, is his main project nowadays (with 3 edited albums: Niranjana, Living Sessions and Everything is live) (more info: www.indramantras.com). He is also very much into yoga, breathing techniques and meditations, which he learned from the Art of Living Foundation, founded by the humanitarian and spiritual Indian master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Ignacio likes to tell that as soon as his master told him “you should make a CD” everything began to move in that direction.