Flamenco Nuevo

FLAMENCO is music and culture which evolved from the rural co-existence in Andalusia; from the vitality and spontaneity of the gypsies, their rhythm, their inspiration and improvisation. Because of all those components the flamenco is very suitable for communication with other musicians and other styles of music.

Rafa El Tachuela combines the traditional flamenco with elements from Jazz, Afro-Cuban and South American folk in his Flamenco Nuevo compositions. The larger instrumentation with bass, double bass, percussion, flute and other instruments represent an important characteristic of this style.

The forms of the pure flamenco are remarkably extended by the enormous variety of contemporary and traditional world music used in Flamenco Nuevo. This breaks the rigid structure of the flamenco and makes it more comprehensible and adaptable for a broader audience.

This fusion of diverse musical forms and structures, compositional elements and the wider use of instrumentation resulted in Flamenco Nuevo; a completely new sound yet still close to traditional flamenco.

FLAMENCO NUEVO
In recent times different playing techniques and aesthetic influences became evident e. g. the remarkable collaboration of Sabicas and Joe Beck or of the Trio of guitarists Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola, or the Spanish groups Ketama or Pata Negra. The results can be classified as Flamenco-Rock, Flamenco-Salsa, Flamenco-Jazz etc., and they can be regarded as part of the omnipresent trend of “Fusion-Music” and could be called Flamenco Nuevo.

Rafa El Tachuela y la Pasión Flamenca is not about combining a music or dance style decision but a flamenco philosophy of art that offers musicians the opportunity for uncompromising self-expression. Flamenco topics such as life, love, power and failings are themes which will forever remain relevant.
Rafa el Tachuela considerably extends the forms of purist flamenco in the Flamenco Nuevo by the enormous variety of structures found in contemporary and traditional world music in order to explode fixed flamenco structures and in so doing make them accessible to and tangible for an even wider audience.

 

Musicians on track 1, 3, 5:

Rafa El Tachuela - flamenco guitar, vocals

Justo Perez - flute (tracks 3 & 5)

Thomy Jordi - bass

Topo Gioia - caja, percussion, vocals

La Moraima - palmas

Ana Azules - palmas, vocals (track 3)


Recorded at Studio White Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Mixing: Niko Escher

Musicians on track 2, 4, 6, 8, 9:

Rafa El Tachuela - flamenco guitar

Domingo Patricio - flute

Juan Rectoret - electrical bass

Enric Canada - caja, percussion

Maria Rosa Jimenez - palmas, zapateado, castañuelas, jaleos


Recorded at Studio Cancojas, Barcelona, Spain
Mixing: Denis Sanz Marti
Digital sound control of the guitar by RCN Berlin

Tracks 7 and 10 recorded at the digital studio of Rafa El Tachuela.

All tracks composed, arranged and produced by Rafa El Tachuela