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Pedro Ricardo Miño comments on
'Piano con duende', song by song

'Río Miño', bulería

"This song has a very open melody. It isn't a tune where I play pure flamenco piano. This melody was composed about ten years ago. It's a tribute to Galicia. Playing on my last name, I seek the sounds from up there. Diego Carrasco does it perfectly. And the rhythm by Tomasito is among the most open ones".

'Casa El Manteca', tanguillos

"Casa El Manteca is a tavern in Cádiz, a very pure, very happy place. And this is my vision of very good moments lived there. Strolling around Cádiz, with all of its problems, despite all of its neglect, it contains so much beauty...".

'Gades maestro', farruca

"This is a song by my father, Ricardo Miño, which I dedicate to Antonio Gades. It keeps the scheme of how a farruca is created for baile, with a classical structure. Who better could I dedicate it to than to him?"

'Fiesta en la plazuela', bulería

"It's one of the songs I've been playing live for some time now. I modify it every day, it changes, I create. There are songs that it's the audience who has created them".

'Soníos negros', seguiriya

"This seguiriya is a tribute to Niño Ricardo. It has a very spatial introduction in which Fernando Terremoto takes part with very musical voices, with no lyrics; it's more about climate. It's the most classical song on the album, the longest one. And I even had to cut it down because, as it wasn't preconceived for a record, it had gone up to twenty minutes".

'Vete y no vuelvas', tangos

"This is another open tune participated in by Ángela Bautista and Paco Ortega in the choruses. It has refrains, drums, basses, congas... It's a very rhythmic tune".

'Tío Beni', alegrías

"These alegrías have a very nice story behind them. After the first TV program in my life, at the age of six or seven, on Telesur, they put me on to play. Beni de Cádiz was there and ended up crying thinking about what my parents would be feeling. In time, I started to realize what that meant and I've kept it to myself. This is another of the songs that has already been rolled off and one of the ones I wanted to put on record".

'Barranco', rumba

"This is another one of the rhythmic tunes on the album. I also have Paco Ortega's voice here. It has a very pleasant tone".

'Ímpetu', bulería

"It's a song by guitarist Mario Escudero. It's a very guitar tune, which is taken to piano for the first time. I did the arrangement".

'Me dejaste el corazón', malagueña

"This composition is on top of lyrics sung by Fernando Terremoto. It's one of the songs most respectful to flamenco on the album; just piano and voice".

'Taberna Altozano', soleá

"The Taberna del Altozano was a bar that there was in Seville until a short time ago. For many years it was a pure setting, where a moment of truth came up on any given day. It was one of the places that's needed. José Lérida, the owner, was a friend of my father's. And I know what used to go on there through them. I base myself on cante, including the soleá apolá, the soleá of Alcalá, that of Frijones, that of Triana... It's a journey through soleá, melodically, on the cantaor's way".

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