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Andrés Marcos Revellado (born 1970) is a Spanish musician. He produces electronic music blended with jazz and acoustic elements. He was born in Locarno, in the Italian-speaking Switzerland, where his parents moved from Spain in 1965.

He started his musical education playing classical guitar when he was 9 years old, but was more interested in the electric side of this instrument, so with the money of his first summer job bought an electric guitar and started playing with rock and blues groups, the first concerts came when he was 15. Ascona, a small city near Locarno, has a Jazz festival, that he visited every year, and when he was 20 he decided to move to Lausanne to study at the local Jazz School.

He studied bass, upright bass, percussion and piano during 3 years and continued at the Conservatory of Music of Montreux, which has a jazz section for one more year. In this period he played live with every sort of ensemble, going from trios to jazz big bands, working with parallel projects. In the following years he also worked with theatre companies as music writer and performer.

The interest in electronic music came by accident, due to an inflammation of the ulna nerve he had to cancel all his summer gigs and was forced to take a break. He started exploring the possibilities offered by computers and liked that. Months later, when he could start playing again, he changed his musical orientation, and involved synthesizers and samplers in his music.

The research work took years, and in 2003 he started playing livesets using a computer and hardware, and in 2007 he published the first EP “Extrem strapazierfähig” for Miniatura Records in Argentina. This was followed by releases with Multi Vitamins, Bleepsequence and Music Kollektiv.

His second project “Clarabella Olssen” is based on field and live recordings, improvisation, and spontaneous music structures, under this moniker he has released “Un bon poissonet” under the experimental label Stereo-Type.

Since 2009 he is part of the forward thinking and interdisciplinary collective Unoiki, based in Berlin, and joining international artists. With Unoiki he has the possibility to release more personal music, without having to follow guidelines of existing music styles. He lately joined the artist collective Pluie/Noir, based in Portugal.