04/12/2012 Javier Limon Music Singing News Productos

Mi única llave.The title of the new album featured by José Mercé

El álbum, considerado por la crítica como un disco impecable, y el más innovador en el flamenco

Jose Mercé

Mi única llave. Is the title of the new album featured by José Mercé,produced by Javier Limón and published on the date 16^th October 2012.The singer songwriter says about the album: “Is a flamenco album, but knowing that we are in the 21th century. Serious , sober ,deep” says the singer born in 1955 in the in the flamenco neighbourhood called Santiago de Jerez de la Frontera. Mi única llave is a flamenco , impecable album with great musical richness and good guitar-players. This album is elaborated with few elements that covers all the sonic spectrum in a good work made by Javier who has achieved to hold the album just with guitars, percussions, clappings and little more. This album has also collaborations with Eric Truffaz (Trumpeter),Allain Mallet (Piano) and Layth Al-Rubave (violinist) that provide to the album connexions with other kind of musics.

Mi única llave has a lot of surprises which enriches the album. “The best guitar-players of Spain are in the album: Diego del Morao, Pepe Habichuela, Tomatito y Manuel Parrilla” say José Mercé. Javier Limón adds “Alejandro Sanz has composed a bulería honoree to Moraíto Chico (who is José Mercé’s guitar-player died in 2011) the martinete that heads the album was recorded in Boston with fifteen girls’s chorus ; the zambra’s Salvaora by Manolo Caracol version was recorded in a Masonic church from the XIX century with the jazz’s guitar player Alain Mallet; the French trumpeter Eric Truffaz plays with Pepe Habichuela in the Elegia to Ramón Sijé, poem by Miguel Hernández , reminding the Enrique Morente’s work, there also are some fandangos from Huelva with the collaboration of Layth Al-Rubave ,a incredible 19 years old jordanian violinist…Is the most gypsy and comtemporary album of José”

Almost every songs are composed by Javier Limón and José Mercé. The first single is titled “La llave del amor”.The tangos are flamencos, energics, deeps. “The sound of this album sticks to our ear”say José Mercé who praise to Javier Limón “We know each other from long time ago and we always wanted to make together an album and it just happened. His works make you feel very comfortable.I think we have made a good album, more stabilised than the previous albums”

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05/03/2012 Discs lauching Singing News

New disc of Miguel Poveda, "ArteSano"

En este nuevo trabajo ha juntado a guitarristas cuya trascendencia se nos escapa: tocan con el muchacho Paco de Lucía, Manolo Sanlúcar, Isidro Muñoz

"Ole, viva Cadiz", it is the first “jaleo” listened in the background of a deaf guitar.

Strums and his voice for the land like benediction:" Ay with the caray, caray, caray, these are the things that happen in Cai ".

Universal Music let us savouring just 48 seconds of “Qué disparate”, a step forward of what will be the next work of the flamenco singer Michael Poveda that with the title Artesano (craftsman) returns to the Flamenco courses, like gives us the recording, 48 seconds of art that let the amateur with the honey on the lips.

Return to flamenco with Cadiz very present.

And not only for the rhythmic bulerías but for the artists' list with which Poveda surrounds himself in this work that goes out to the light next 27 of March.

The masters Paco de Lucía, Manolo Sanlúcar, Diego del Morao, Manuel Parrilla, Jose Quevedo Bolita, Isidro Muñoz and Jesus Guerrero (all from the province of Cadiz) and the flamenco singer Rancapino, who takes part in Qué disparate, they parade for topics of the disc that the Catalan singer will present on the next 21^st of July in the bullring of Jerez, as it has been published in his web page. Other stops of the tour of the craftsman's presentation will be Malaga, on 24th of March, Barcelona, on 29th of March, Madrid, on 8th of May and Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) on 2d of June .

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30/09/2011 Singing News

"Quijote de los sueños" the new work of Arcángel

Se pone a la venta Quijote de los sueños el cuarto trabajo discográfico de Arcángel.

Arcangel

On October 11 will be released his fourth album. He defines it as "a varied album with many fronts, with quality in the texts, providing new concepts ... is the claim: purity and renewal. Inquire within flamenco melodies with fresh air. " This Archangel is his new album, Quixote's dreams, which will go on sale on October the 11th.
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

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08/08/2011 Festivals Singing News

Estrella Morente protagoniza el Festival de Flamenco de Lisboa, en septiembre.

Estrella Morente

Estrella Morente vuelve a Lisboa el 15 de septiembre para encabezar la IV edición del festival de flamenco de la capital lusa, después de más de cuatro años de celebrar su primer concierto en Portugal.

La artista granadina, de 30 años, dio sus últimos y primeros conciertos en Portugal en junio de 2007, en Oporto y en Lisboa, dentro de una gira conjunta con la cantante portuguesa Dulce Pontes, una de las máximas representantes del nuevo fado portugués.

Reconocida internacionalmente, Estrella Morente ha heredado el talento de su padre.

Estrella ha sido galardonada con el premio ONDAS a la Mejor Creación de Flamenco, dos premios AMIGO y una candidatura a los Grammy Latinos.

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03/08/2011 Festivals Singing News

51th Edition of Cante de las Minas

Arranca la 51º Edicion del Cante de las Minas.

51º Edición Cante de las Mina

The Union "Ciudad minera y flamenca". That's the way The Union greets its visitors when they get to the frontier of the municipal territory. And since tuesday, the 2nd of August till the next 13th, a longer period than before, its streets, its people, its Public Market, will take in, in the miner mountain the best
flamenco of this country, in the 51st edition of the Cante Festival of "Cante de las Minas".

On the second of august, the first activities will take place, always free, of the cultural agenda prepared by the Town Hall. The "Cante de las Minas" museum, located in the "Casa de Piñón", will be open to the public and will inagurate the "II Jornadas Gatronómicas Flamencas", and a photographic exhibition about the "Inolvidables del Flamenco". All this to heat motors until the official start of the Festival, on the 4th.

With the opening speech of Carlos Herrera, the first performances of this 2011 will be held by the winners of the competition of last year: Miguel Ortega, (Lámpara Miner), Francisco Moncayo (Bordón Minero), Jesús Fernández (Desplante) and Abdón Alcara (Filón).
The entry to the Public Market the first day will be free.
One lighted the carbides in the Cante Cathedral, the Flamenco will flow amongst the village easily.

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