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ON 'CAMINOS DEL ALJARAFE':
Hymn to tellurism
Gualberto tightens bonds with nature. If 'Constelación Flamenca' was born
from star-gazing in 2000, 'Caminos del Aljarafe' sprang up a couple of years later
from strolling through the fields of Aljarafe. The Sevillian musician spent part
of his time strolling with his friend Miguel, a sword boy for a bullfighter, through
the virgin parts of villages in this region -currently menaced by the urban expansion
of the metropolitan area of Seville, the capital - where he takes the matador
to train. The beauty of the landscapes and the atmosphere of freedom that contacts
nature when it isn't too polluted" were the inspiration. 'Caminos del Aljarafe'
is consequently "a descriptive music of the landscape and the song of the birds
that accompanied us in those strolls amidst orange and olive trees".
The composition, premiered at the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla
2002, consists of four movements: 'Sonidos del camino', which
recreates the song of the birds; 'Antigua verea', inspired
in the way where the herds of pigs used to pass; 'Cañaverales
del Pudio', which fluctuates between tarantas and cartageneras;
and 'Árboles de los deseos', where a feminine song is emulated
through the dilruba. Gualberto develops them by means of a
triad of classical Indian instruments - the sitar, the veena
and the dilruba - and an instrument created by the very musician:
the cañizo (wattle), which is nothing more than "a reed that
I cut on one of my strolls that I made a wind instrument with".
The cañizo only abounds in the tellurism (defined as the
"influence of a region's earth on its inhabitants") that the
Triana-born composer suffers. On this tour of the fertile
lands that neither Tartessians, nor Romans, nor Muslims avoided,
Gualberto has himself accompanied by the flute, clarinet,
oboe, horn and bassoon, which were played respectively by
Luis Orden Ciero, Piotr Szymyslik, Jacobo Díaz Giráldez and
Javier Aragó in that premiere at the Alameda Theater. Premiere...
and probably also farewell. Like 'Constelación Flamenca',
"it is surely the flower of a single day, although you never
know". For the time being, Gualberto doesn't intend to go
to the recording studio, but he's already preparing "a new
concert in which I include a flamenco cantaor".
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Unreleased MP3 by Gualberto: In order to make the essence of his latest
work known to those who didn't have the opportunity to be at the Alameda Theater
in Seville after midnight on September 11, 2002, Gualberto is offering a piece
of 'Caminos del Aljarafe', in bulerías, on MP3 at Flamenco-world.com.
Free
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