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Antonio
Carmona, singer and percussionist (October, 2006)
“I like for flamenco to remain in a pure state,
but Ketama made it heard by another audience”
Ara
Malikian, violinist (June, 2005)
“Classical music should be like flamenco”
Bebo
Valdés, pianist (July, 2003)
"I'm learning a lot from the flamencos"
Carles
Benavent, bass player (May, 2004)
"Copying is how I've learned all I can know about
flamenco"
Carlos
Lencero, writer and rhapsodist. (November, 2004)
“The book ‘Sobre Camarón’
is a portrait of one artist by another”
Carlos
Saura, director of ‘Flamenco’ (May, 2005)
“I struggle to open up new and daring pathways
for flamenco”
Cathy
Claret, singer and composer (September, 2003)
"There are those who are tacky on a plain guitar and
those who are pure on an electric guitar"
Chaboli,
co-producer of 'Homenaje a Jeros' (A Tribute to 'Jeros')
(April, 2002)
Paying homage to the poet from the suburbs
Chambao,
flamenco chill group (December, 2006)
“I don’t sing flamenco, but I carry it
inside and it comes out naturally in my music”
Chano
Domínguez, pianist (September, 2002)
"Flamenco-jazz is still going through its adolescence"
Chano
Domínguez, pianist (October, 2000)
"I think that fusion has more to do with the
people involved than the music itself"
Diego
Amador, pianist and flamenco cantaor (July, 2008)
“I’m ‘Camarón-style’
but I remember everybody, and I especially remember
myself”
Diego
Amador, multi-instrumentalist (April, 2004)
"There's no such thing as flamenco piano"
Diego
Amador, multi-instrumentalist (2001)
"Anyone who doesn't listen to Paco is
an idiot and excuse me for saying so..."
Diego
Carrasco, cantaor, songwriter and guitarist (April,
2004)
'Mi ADN flamenco', track-by-track
Diego
Carrasco, cantaor, guitarist, producer and songwriter
(March, 2003)
"The greatest virtue flamenco has is that it's
alive and well"
Diego Carrasco, cantaor, songwriter and guitarist
(2000)
"I've listened to Terremoto and Tío Borrico,
I've played for them, and for Tía Anica, and they
always sang the same verse differently."
Dominique
Abel, filmaker (1999)
"Someone who approaches it for the first
time could never have done this, and they certainly
never could have approached Agujetas, because he wouldn't
even open the door for them."
Dorantes,
pianist (February, 2002)
"There isn't much happening within the vanguard
of flamenco. I think there are a lot of barriers and
too few are bold enough to overcome them"
Echegaray,
flamenco fusion group (December, 2003)
"Echegaray is a sound that's descended from flamenco,
but it's wide open"
El
Barrio, guitarist, singer and composer (May, 2002)
"The hardships of working at tablaos are what help
you grow to be able to express yourself as an artist"
Elbicho,
flamenco-pop group (July, 2003)
"People like us because we believe in ourselves"
Fernando
Trueba, film director and music promoter (October,
2003)
"I'm a complete ignorant of flamenco"
Francisco
López Gutiérrez, director of the Festival de Jerez
(January, 2002)
"Dance is the most accessible facet of Flamenco for
new audiences"
Gualberto:
"I have never tried to do flamenco"
Javier
Limón, producer and songwriter (June, 2005)
“Paco de Lucía is the real flamenco producer”
Javier
Puga, Artistic Director of the Mont-de-Marsan Festival
(June, 2001)
"I think that little by little
we've been able to achieve a certain prestige and
project an image based on meticulous attention to
detail in each and every aspect that the organization
of a festival of these dimensions entails."
Jerry
González, trumpet-player (2001)
"Over here everything is more spontaneous and
I'm happy to be used for recordings and jam sessions"
Jorge
Pardo (August, 2005)
“Internet is a medium for artistic expression
that the institutions should applaud”
José
Antonio Galicia, percussionist and composer (September,
2003)
"My music is neither flamenco nor jazz, but free music"
Juan
Cortés, pianist (September, 2003)
"In flamenco, no matter what you play, you have to
look to the guitar"
Kiko
Veneno, singer and composer (September, 2005)
“I'm trying to learn flamenco's virtues, especially
in the lyrics and essentialness”
Kiko
Veneno, singer, guitarist and composer (2000)
"That's what I'm looking for, and that's
my skill as a writer: doing basic things by working
out those little day-to-day expressions."
La
Shica, alternative flamenco group (October, 2005)
“La Shica's challenge is to achieve an original
sound”
Los
Delinqüentes, flamenco rock group (April, 2005)
“The lifestyle Veneno used to have is the one
we want for Los Delinqüentes”
Manuel
Herrera, ex-director of Seville's Bienal de Flamenco
(June, 2003)
"I think it's time for the Bienal to take another
leap"
Manuel
Herrera Rodas director of Seville's Bienal de Flamenco
(October, 2001)
Director of Seville's Bienal de Flamenco.
Manuel
Soler, percussionist (2001)
"There's a tremendous amount
of ignorance, especially in percussion. You buy a
cajón and you just start to beat on it"
Manzanita,
singer (1999)
"I think that together with Paco de Lucía
and Manuel Montoya (from Lole y Manuel), we were the
ones that opened up the doors for the others to follow.
But that doesn't give us the right to do whatever
we want to."
Mario
Pacheco, director of Nuevos Medios (May, 2002)
"The next generation of artists should be talented
musicians with a solid base in flamenco; musicians
that have grown up listening to Ramón Montoya and
working with Benavent or Paco de Lucía"
Mártires
del Compás, flamenco group. (July, 2005)
“Mártires has done evolutionary work
in lyrics and cantes that will receive due credit
some day”
Mártires
del Compás, flamenco-pop group (2000)
"For Mártires each flop at the record
shop is a success"
Michael
Meert, director of ‘Ketama y su herencia flamenca’
(June, 2005)
“Flamenco plays an increasingly major role in
the cultural history of Europe”
Nacho
Arimany, percussionist and composer (February, 2007)
“You don’t need to make up new rhythms,
but rather go on deciphering cante’s rhythm”
Omar
Faruk Tekbilek, turkish musician and singer (July,
2002)
"I often cry when I hear flamenco singing"
Ojos
de Brujo, flamenco hip-hop group (June, 2005)
“The magic of Ojos de Brujo lies in the flamenco”
Ojos
de Brujo, Flamenco Hip-Hop group (December, 2003)
"Ojos de Brujo isn't a currency of exchange"
Ojos
de Brujo, Flamenco Hip-Hop group (November, 2002)
"Our music is possible because we are possible"
Pablo
Martín, contrabass player (December, 2002)
"Flamenco is the genre that is most enriching the
Spanish musical panorama"
Paco
Lira, La Carbonería's owner (1999)
"I am still not very flexible with respect
to flamenco..."
Paco
López, director of Festival de Jerez (March,
2006)
“We're ungrateful to the people that make flamenco
grow, people who invest their time and money in learning
this artform that fuels their passion”
Paco
Ortega. Producer of the CD "Las tres mil viviendas"
(March, 1999)
"I make records for those who are not
members of the 'critics'"
Pedro
G. Romero, commissioner of the exhibit ‘La noche
española. Flamenco, vanguardia y cultura popular’.
Interview
Pedro
Ojesto, pianist (june, 2004)
“People are fond of the label ‘young flamenco’
as what is modern, but it's been thirty years”
Pedro
Ricardo Miño, pianist (February, 2004)
"I don't want to hear a piano sounding like a guitar"
Pedro
Ricardo Miño, pianist (2000)
"You have to know flamenco to give feeling, character
and verve to a musical score"
Pierre
Lefranc, researcher (April, 2002)
"In flamenco research there's already way too much
academic discourse, too often evidence is carefully
selected to fit the desired conclusion"
Queco,
singer, composer and producer (November, 2003)
"We flamencos must rid ourselves of biases and complexes
when creating"
Radio
Tarifa (October, 2003)
"Flamenco is permanently evolving. So many purists
have to be unmasked"
Rafael
Amador, guitarist, singer and composer (November,
2006)
“Music has to have a message”
Raimundo
Amador, guitarist and singer (November, 2003)
The troubadour on his island
Raimundo
Amador, guitarist and singer (October, 2000)
"What
I really like is the change of pace, after two records
we'll see what happens."
Raimundo
Amador, guitarist and singer (2000)
"Blues without flamenco? That's
for the forty-thousand who do it in America"
Salvador
Távora (September, 2001)
"I've always been more concerned with why people
sang than how they sang"
Son
de la Frontera (November, 2006)
“Without researching its past, flamenco has
no future”
Son
de la Frontera (July, 2004)
“If we want to make local music, we have to
approach it with a universal perspective”
Sorderita
(June, 2001)
"I think that African music is the closest
thing to flamenco"
Tino
di Geraldo, percussionist and producer (October, 2003)
"Feeling is not flamenco heritage"
Tomasito,
cantaor and bailaor (October, 2002)
"If you confine yourself to flamenco you're not a
musician"
Tomasito,
cantaor and bailaor (November, 2000)
"It's great when a metalhead or a punk rocker
knows who Pericón is."
Victoria
Abril, actress (July,
2004)
“I must have a free spirit, just like flamenco
artists”
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