Interview with Tino di Geraldo, percussionist and producer:

"Feeling is not flamenco heritage"

Silvia Calado Olivo. Madrid, October 2003

If Tino di Geraldo waves any banner it is that of freedom. And he applies it to his life, his work, his words. The percussionist, composer and producer speaks with crushing sincerity about 'Tino', his latest album, the evolution of flamenco music, the role percussion plays, the ins and outs of a producer's job... and any subject. He who coined the provocative slogan "you are flamenco", upholds that in it the jondo 'beast' lies in the gesture. A very restless music enthusiast, he seeks the difference in jazz, rock, heavy metal, funk... And states that "flamenco, the further back it goes, the more it surprises me". Allergic to labels, he says "I don't make anything records, but rather what I like", a sentence which suffices for him to synthesize what he feels like, what he likes and what he aims at.

Tino di Geraldo (Photo: Javier Hurtado)

'Tino', the free album
"I'm not trying to discover or invent anything, but to do what I like"

A percussionist of reference
"I've been called at times to put in a percussion and I said no"

To the avant-garde of production
"The greatest difficulty in producing is to convince the artistic part and the commercial one at the same time"

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