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DocTorNo (catalonian rock band)
ProgRock Català Componentes Enric Pascual: lead vocals, drums Conrad Dubé: bass, vocals Néstor Giménez: keyboard, vocals, programing Pere Mestres: guitar Vilislav Pankov: solo & rhythm guitar Jordi Salvadó: drums Ciudad de origen Salou Discográfica Xymphonia Records Biografía The history of Dr.NO starts the summer of l999. The band CAT from Salou have issued their first album CATACLISME and are preparing new songs for a second album. Then, the band splits. Enric Pascual (vocals and drums) starts to seek for new members for a new progressive rock band. Enric Pascual had been part of other progressive bands, like TAXI or HARNAKIS.

Enric Pascual contacts Conrad Dubé, barcelonian moved due to work to the Tarragona region, who accepts the challenge of starting-up the neo-progressive project of Dr.NO.

The band starts with three members, because for some months has Rubén Vilarroya, who was the keyboardist of CAT. In these dates is born the embryon of EL BUFÓ DE LA CORT.

Later on Dani Anguera enters the band at the guitars. With this components, that temporarily have the colaboration of Peter Vall at the keyboards, the band configures a style that takes as a reference bands like Genesis or Marillion.

Dr.NO bids for songs very elaborated, experimenting with sounds and serching for new melodies and musical structures, where it doesn’t matter the duration of the song, but that every single song is a small piece-of-art. From 2000 to now, Dr.NO dedicates to compose and give shape to the band. The result is the recording of a demo recording with a brief sample of the band’s music, where EL BUFÓ DE LA CORT shows up, a song that clearly depicts their musical style. This demo, in which Dani Anguera acts also as a sound technician, includes other songs like the balad "No se el teu nom", "El fet diferencial" (a non-progressive song that breaks with the band’s style), "Lil.liput Part 1" and "Estación Pirenaica".

At the end of 2001, Enric Pascual and Conrad Dubé decide to produce the first professional recording and enter the Entrepins studios in Tarragona where, with Jaume Moncusí, sound engineer and keyboardist (he was a member of the historical jazz-fusion band Metamorfosis), and with the colaboration of Pere Mestres at the guitar (former CAT returned), record their first album EL BUFÓ DE LA CORT.

Oriol Garcia, barcelonian guitarrist, colaborates during some months with Dr.NO (shows-up his participation at the venue in Tarragona on 28/9/2002). On the keyboards, Raül Cid, from Tarragona, forms part of the band between march 2002 and the summer of 2003. Abel Benito is the stage drummer until the summer of 2004, when he decides to move to England.

The actual band line-up in live, apart from Enric Pascual at the vocals and Conrad Dubé at the bass, includes Néstor Giménez at the keyboards, Jordi Salvadó on the drums, and the bulgarian Vilislav Pankov at the guitar.

The Dr.No have been semifinalists of the contest Sona9 (Enderrock, Catalunya Ràdio and Televisió de Catalunya), have been selected at the contest D.O.Tarragona organized by the Municipality of Tarragona, and semifinalists of Tarragona for the contest GamaRock (TVE, Ona Ràdio and Gama 2 Management). (ver menos) The history of Dr.NO starts the summer of l999. The band CAT from Salou have issued their first album CATACLISME and are preparing new songs for a second album. Then, the band splits. Enric Pascual (vocals and drums) starts to seek for new members for a new progressive rock band. Enric Pascual had been part of other progressive bands, like TAXI or HARNAKIS.

Enric Pascual contacts Conrad Dubé, barcelonian moved due to work to the Tarragona region, who accepts the challenge of starting-up the... (ver más) Artistas que también nos gustan Yes, Marillion, King Crimson, ELP, Asia, Genesis, Intereses en grupos musicales Progressive Rock made in Catalonia, inspired in bands like Genesis, Camel or Marillion. This genre opens the borders of traditional rock, introducing new sounds, searching for new musical structures, fusioning rock with other musical expressions, and providing a creative way of making rock to be listened to. Dr.No recreate this concept in their language: catalan. Sitio web http://www.llobet.com/drno