/ Blavia with whom he took part in several festivals in Spain. All the groups would be characterized by a daring musical and instrumental gamble in combination with the Stick. With all the projects in progress, in 2006 he produced and edited a Hispanic Stickistas Compilation presenting 22 artists of the Stick. On this album and for the first time, Cides and the inventor of the Stick Emmett Chapman record together a song called Gonnawannaland. In 2007 the drummer Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel’s ex drummer) invited Cides to do a tour as a duo. In this way they crossed several European countries during that year and the following one. Cides returns finally to the record world in 2009 with an idea without precedent on the Internet: an on-line shop where different artists sign CDs one to one and send them directly to the public. In the same year he edits two albums simultaneously: CCA Project (letters that signify the surnames of its members Cushma, Cides and Tim Alexander, with Tony Levin and Trey Gunn as guests, among others) and the Electrik Consort’s début album, one of his groups. At present, Cides lives in Barcelona. He tours annually with his different projects. As he himself expresses in his interviews, he still plays with his first Stick of 1992. Style Guillermo Cides would cultivate his own style with the Stick, marked specially by popular melodies combined with modern sounds and a style of playing that would characterize him in the future. The multiplicity of sounds in the stage generated with the Chapman Stick turned him into a real one-man band. From 1994 he began to experiment with loops, a technology based on recording sounds onstage at the same moment in which they are played and in this way generating complex sonic environments. He was to apply this modern technique in particular to popular and classic melodies (J. S. Bach). Discography El Mundo interior de los Planetas (Mundo Records/Stick Center) Primitivo (Mundo Records/Stick Center) The Bach Tribute by Cides (Mundo Records/Stick Center) Compilado de Stickistas (Stick Center) Electrik Consort (Stick Center) CCA Project (Stick Center) Festival Performances Festival of Jazz de Granada (España) Festival of Música viva de Vic (España) Insolit Music Festival Barcelona (España) Festival of la Guitarra de Cordoba (España) Festival Mar Sessions de Santander (España) Festival of Músicas Avanzadas de Jerez (+ Trilok Gurtuk) (España) Festival of Jazz deTerrassa (España)