FINIS TERRAE presents their second album called "Gente paseando por la calle". It´s a CD with an interactive track for CD_Rom with a video and information of the group.

FINIS TERRAE combines ethnic rhythms from all over the world – especially from Celtic and Latin American cultures – with elements taken from classical music, jazz and the singer-songwriter tradition. Their melodies break with the purism of folk music, while maintaining the essence of the ethnic traditions from which they come, and sounds and styles mix in an eclectic and surprising way. In just one song you can hear the rhythms of milonga, reggae, reel, tango and a classical adagio. In another, a Dixieland swing changes into a Galician muñeira and you can hear – maybe for the first time – a bagpipe playing jazz. The stylistic range of Finis Terrae’s music is immense, but their tone, melodic arrangements and instrumentation make it immediately recognisable.

In four years, Finis Terrae has played all around Spain, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and also in Philadelphia and New Jersey in the U.S.A., where they were invited to participate in the Northeast American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Showcase Festival in Split Rock, Pennsylvania.

Finis Terrae produced their first CD, with the title Un Milonguero busca asilo en Rusia (A Milonga Player seeks asylum in Russia) in October of 1998 with the record company Sonifolk.

"Gente paseando por la calle" includes Juan Cruz on flamenco guitar, Clare Barwick on viola and the soprano Irene Badiola. It was recorded by Javier Pérez Mejías in Estudio Tritono and he also recorded the interactive track and designed the album cover.

“Gente paseando por la calle” is dedicated to our friend and fellow musician Oscar Grossi, who tragically died before the completion of this recording in which he put so much effort and love. This CD will remain as a tribute to his great talent both as a musician and as a person.

The recording was made by:
Hamish Binns (UK) - voice, guitar, charango, highland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, Galician gaita, spoons and tin whistles
Homero Villagra (Chile) - voice, guitar, Venezuelan cuatro and charango
Germán Ojeda (Argentina) - violin
Oscar Grossi (Argentina) - cello
Clare Barwick (UK) - viola
Pablo Gatto (Argentina) - double bass
Robert Jones (USA) - percussion
Juan Cruz (Spain) - spanish guitar in “Arena”
Irene Badiola (Spain) - soprano voice in “El Señor Presidente”