Sabor Ketama
'Sabor Ketama' was released in 1998. It's a compilation of seventeen master pieces that depict whole era where fusion, cultural exchange, experimentation and innovation meet. When the ingredients are top quality the result can't be wrong. Juan and Josemi guitars and the distinctive voice of Antonio find in this album yet another moment of happiness and enjoyment.
Konfusion - Ketama
Flamenco is a very rich and very demanding art, and it is almost impossible to capture its vital flavor without years of training and experience. Ketama, fortunately, has what it takes to deliver excellent New Flamenco. Released in June, 1998, Konfusion has a nice blend of smooth Pop-Jazz-Flamenco sound that promises to please new listeners. Also, the lyrical content of 'Konfusion', is far more...
Samaruco
'Samaruco' signals the comeback to the recording arena of Duquende. In this album, the singer shows more steadiness and formality than expected. This is due to the great care put in the production of this CD, recorded in three different studios with as many as four engineers. Among the musicians, a fantastic list which includes the usual 'godfathers' Benavent and Tino Di Geraldo, sought after...
Aire - José Mercé
Jose Mercé. It hardly seems necessary to mention more than the name of this authentic superstar of flamenco of the new century. His audience goes way beyond a love of flamenco, even comparable to the popularity enjoyed by Camarón in his best years. Since when in a cante festival have there been groups of young girls shouting 'I love you!', 'you’re the most handsome one!', 'I want to marry you!'....
Poeta - Vicente Amigo
'Poeta' was released in 1997 and it's Amigo's third CD. Composed in 1995 and originally entitled 'Concierto flamenco para un marinero en tierra', 'Poeta' represents a beautiful meadow in the middle of an incomparable view: Alberti's poetry, Amigo's flamenco guitar, and the majestic sypmhonic ennsamble La Orquesta de Córdoba, conducted by Leo Brower, a key player not only in the Cuban music but...
Toma Ketama
This recording belongs to the kind of work created to be lived, to be drank without limitations so that it goes under the skin, so that it finds a place in one's soul and grows from there. Each song in Toma Ketama, is unmistakably grounded in flamenco, but the entire Latin music world is fair game as interpretations of the bolero, son montuno, samba, and salsa add upt to the sauce. 'Mienteme'...
Mi cante y un poema - Estrella Morente
Flamenco singer Estrella Morente (Granada, 1980) is -quite literally in her native tongue- a star. And a star with impeccable flamenco connections too; her father and musical mentor is legendary singer Enrique Morente, her accompanists include veteran guitarist Manolo Sanlucar as well as new flamenco stars Ketama, and to cap it all she's married to a 'matador'. Her long-awaited debut album was...
Cañailla - Niña Pastori
On her third album 'Cañaílla' (which means 'from the San Fernando Island', in Cádiz), Niña explores her flamenco roots without straying too far from the pop style that has allowed her to appeal more easily to younger audiences. The promotional single 'Cai', which is 'Cádiz' but pronounced in Andalucia jergon, was written by Alejandro Sánz, and refers to Niña's Andalucian origins. Along the nine...
Eres luz - Niña Pastori
'Eres Luz' was produced by Paco Ortega -he's the one who discovered Niña-, and it's full of happiness and cantes. Niña Pastori, with her voice, takes us deep inside the New Flamenco culture where all the cantes have a fres sound. This album features collaborations from Alejandro Sanz, Parrita, Paco Ortega and even from Paco, María's (Niña Pastori) brother, who wrote the rumba 'Como tú, ninguna'...
Gerundina - Raimundo Amador
This is Raimundo Amador's debut album as a solo artists, after his work with Veneno, and legendary band Pata Negra. The album title is a tribute to his guitar, built by Gerundino Fernández. This recording features guests like B.B. King and Argentinian prodigy Andrés Calamaro and it follows the flamenco and blues fusion that Raimundo himself started with the two bands aforementioned.
