During the meeting with the press, other artists having the leading roleof the Nights from the 7 until the 11 of february, were present too. Among them: José Cortés Pansequito, winning the flamenco prize Calle Alcala 2012 and artist who accompanies for years on Antonio Gades and who arrived in Madrid with Manolo Caracol when he was 15. This singer, according to Reyes, is with Enrique Morente and Jose Merce, the third leg of flamenco renovation assures that he belongs to an unique generation, like the one of the 27- he said- hard to do again, thanks to which flamenco is now humanity patrimony. Convinced that flamenco needs an impulse, he encouraged the youngest artists like Francisco Jose Ramos, Arcangel, as well present, to give a hand to flamenco. The Price's stage is booked on Wednesday, 8th, for the artist Alonso Núñez Rancapino, who will act with Fernando Moreno and Manuel Moneo El Barullo, to give way to the dance compagny "Manolete", of Manuel Santiago Maya. |
Cristina Hoyos y Antonio Fernández Fosforito son algunos de los grandes del flamenco que se han reunido hoy en Barcelona para impulsar la Fundación Tablao Cordobés, entre cuyos proyectos destaca la creación de un documental y de un espectáculo permanente sobre la historia del flamenco. Según fuentes de la Fundación, sus primeros proyectos son la realización de un documental que repase la historia del flamenco desde los años veinte hasta nuestros días, pasando por la revolución que vivió el género de la mano de Camarón de la Isla y explicando el papel de las discográficas y de los tablaos en los años 60. |
Diana Navarro has already confirmed that on November the 2nd she will release his new album, 'Flamenco', an album on CD + DVD that was recorded last July in Madrid. In this new show, the singer pays tribute to great voices of the genre as La Niña de la Puebla, Pepe Pinto or Juanito Valderrama, among others, with the following repertoire:
Milonga Colombian Guajira Cantina Fandango Bulerias La Caña Cantes Abandolaos
As discussed in previous interviews, this tour it's made from the absolute respect, following the classic "cante" made orthodoxly and with the vocal maturity that has been given duringl these years of experience. |
Considered one of the great performers, authors and innovators of modern flamenco, Arcángel has recorded an album of great artistic height, rooted in the tradition but in a spirit quite contemporary. "The modifications of the structures have to be from the base," he says. "Over the past 40 years, flamenco has undergone tremendous changes and the shows have to compete with other musical offerings. People are stepping up, but sometimes we have taken things were not going so well. Now, after the boom, flamenco wants to evolve from the root, more solid. " When you hear" Pa 'que tanto discutir", the opening track of Quixote dreams, these words make sense. They are huge beautyful tangos with Arcángel and Dorantes music and lyrics by José Luis Ortiz Nuevo wrapped in magnificent arrangements by Dorantes, who also sits at the piano, guitars and Daniel Mendez and Miguel Angel Cortes, which run almost everything in the album. Archangel has achieved a matter of great elegance, with transitions that mix contemporary music, jazzy piano playing with echoes of Keith Jarrett and exceptional rhythmic balance without losing the essence |
A family tragedy broke his career and sparked a psychiatric illness that has taken to an edge for years to flamenco lovers , whom suddenly saw that one of the most exquisite and personal guitarists of the generation that succeeded Paco de Lucia was rushing in a black cast with an uncertain end. Exceptional circumstances that help to understand the wait that caused the concert offered tonight at the Lope de Vega, for which the invitations have been exhausted. It will be his first performance in Seville, where he was born in 1962 - the last five years, and will serve to present his new job, that will see the light at the end of the year, ending a gap of recording silence opened 15 years ago . The Catalan singer Mayte Martin came to town last night to accompany him today, from 21:00 in the interpretation of Parque de María Luisa, an album with the collaboration of Estrella Morente, a tribute to friendship and admiration that Enrique Morente professed and guitarist from Seville, Manuel Calleja, and that Riqueni means a "reunion with great memories, with times that are gone but I still have in the heart", a "reunion with everything," he added. |