Brisa Caliente

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

Rafa El Tachuela - flamenco guitar, vocals

La Moraima - palmas, chorus, zapateados

Topo Gioia - percussion

Tommy Jordi - bass

Justo Perez - flute

Rima Nabiel El-Solami - vocals, chorus

Pedro Marinero - guitar on 2, 10, 12

Recorded at M-Studios, Berlin, by M. Kasten
Mixed at ARC Music Studios, East Grinstead, UK
Mixing: Pablo Cárcamo & Rafa El Tachuela
All songs composed, arranged and produced by Rafa El Tachuela except
track 6 “ZAPATEADOS DE LA MORAIMA” composed by La Moraima and
track 9 “LEILAT AL-QUAHIRA”: trad.,
Lyrics: Topo Gioia