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"Quijote de los sueños" the new work of Arcángel
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 |
"On the album, most of the music is mine and most of the letters of Juan Cobos Wilkins. It is a civilian, I know his work and I like writing. Popular language and text content, with many verses assonances. A challenge. It was the opportunity to sing with a substance word, almost as poems, "explains the singer. Some lyrics are popular, like "Vivo por soleá", accompanied on the guitar by Miguel Angel Cortes, while Your voice is my voice, the lyrics are by Antonio Orozco, who shares the music with the Arcángel. The two play a duet theme halfway between tango and rumba with sophisticated pop instrumentation throughout the album, including metals, programming ... Then, when you say you want retakes the fandangos with lyrics by Manuel Correa and New Archangel with the guitar solo of Cortez, to make way for my love, right bulerías Cobos Wilkins with lyrics and music of Archangel, which also shows remarkably robust in the festive songs. And in the final stretch of the album, surprising sweets dangers of piano music, arrangements and musicJesus Cayuela in Huelva fandangos with violin and cello absolutely renovators, almost chamber, which leads to them not with words of Cobo Wilkins and music of Isidro Muñoz. |
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