Diego Amador combines piano, bass,
guitar and flamenco cante on his album
‘Río de los canasteros’
Tomatito and Raimundo Amador collaborate
on the Sevillian musician’s third album
S.C./Flamenco-world.com, April 2008
Five years after ‘Piano
jondo’, Diego
Amador presents a new record. ‘Río de
los canasteros’, the Sevillian musician’s
third solo album, combines every facet of this “total
artist”. Piano, bass, mandolin, bass, guitar and
cante are tackled by the flamenco multi-instrumentalist.
But he’s not alone; rather, he’s surrounded
by collaborators as special as Tomatito, Raimundo Amador
and Luis Salinas on guitar, Carles Benavent on bass and
Tino di Geraldo on percussion, among others. The album’s
release date is April 14th, 2008.
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Diego Amador (Photo
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The record company, the outstanding Nuevos
Medios, announces it clearly: “Diego Amador has
made his most creative album”. Coming out on the
market with this presentation is ‘Río de
los canasteros’, the third solo album by the Sevillian
instrumentalist and cantaor. He plays the piano, guitar,
bass, mandolin, keyboards... and moreover, he produces
himself and sings. It’s no wonder that on the back
cover of the album it says as follows: “Diego is
a total artist who represents flamenco’s surprising
vitality today better than anyone else”.
There is room on the album for new scores
like the tangos ‘Sangre milenaria’, in which
Diego Amador performs on piano, cante, guitar, bass, mandolin
and keyboards, plus the collaborations, among others,
by Bernardo Parrilla on violin, and Piraña and
Antonio Coronel on percussions. In ‘Río de
los canasteros’, the bulerías which are the
record’s title cut, he has the participation of
Tomatito,
with whom he converses alone with his piano and his cante.
He rubs shoulders with latin music in the rumba ‘Al
latin’, which Argentinean guitarist Luis Salinas
takes part in, as well as his brother Raimundo
Amador, also on guitar. In the tientos ‘Mi flamenca’
he once again measures himself against several instruments;
the same as in the fandangos ‘Calle las Flores’
where, moreover, he has Carles
Benavent on bass and Tino di Geraldo on Hindu tabla.
Other collaborators on the album are Bobote and Torombo
on clapping, Ángela and Tere Bautista on choruses,
and Paquito González and Luis Amador on percussion.
‘Río de los canasteros’
comes out five years after his previous record, ‘Piano
jondo’. On that album he was nearly alone with the
piano, at the request not just of Mario Pacheco, director
of Nuevos Medios, but also of the American record company
Fantasy Records. And in the interview
in which he spoke to Flamenco-world.com about that album
he’d already given notice: “I’m more
involved with cante. The next album is going to be sung.
Since I’ve already removed the thorn from my side
on piano”.
