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JORGE PARDO+CARLES
BENAVENT+TINO DI GERALDO.
SEVILLE'S 13th BIENAL DE FLAMENCO 2004
Unprecedented
Silvia Calado. Seville, October 1st, 2004
Photos: Daniel Muñoz
Jorge Pardo: sax and flute. Carles Benavent:
electric bass. Tino di Geraldo: drums. Palenque. Seville,
October 1st, 2004. 10 p.m. Seville's 13th Bienal de Flamenco
2004.
Jorge Pardo y Carles Benavent |
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An unprecedented concert. Unprecedented music. The trio consisting
of Jorge
Pardo, Carles Benavent and Tino di Geraldo had never before
had a show at Seville's Bienal de Flamenco. Inexplicable,
if you bear in mind the transcendence of the ‘school’
they have created around jazz flamenco (or rock or blues or
free), and even less so when taking note that they are able
to convene no fewer than one thousand two hundred people in
the city whom they chose to do a live recording of the group's
latest album up until now: ‘El
concierto de Sevilla’. The saxophonist, the bass
player - both members of the Paco de Lucía Sextet -
and the percussionist brought together at the Palenque - another
of the music venues inherited from Expo’92 - die-hard
fans and neophytes, young people and the not-so-young, locals
and outsiders, in a concert cooked up from the trio's now
'classic' repertoire as well as new compositions advancing
their upcoming album - now in the mixing and mastering phase
- entitled ‘Sin precedentes’ ('Unprecedented').
The concert began while the auditorium was still filling
up, since once again, the Bienal had the wrong time in the
programs and catalogues. The characteristic triple sound marked
the rhythm of the arrival of some and enraptured those already
sitting comfortably in the seats and bleachers. Natural understanding.
Flamenco aromas in essence. Total relaxation. Freedom in torrents...
that is the same old maxim, but it is stressed even more so
in the new music: spaces for delirium somewhat or not at all
flamenco, but always jondo. Compositions which are journeys,
which link different landscapes, different feelings, different
musical states: from nudity to filigree, from sensitivity
to ruggedness, from the minimum to the excessive, from the
norm to ‘ad lib’.
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Carles Benavent |
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And the known decomposes, is recomposed, is looked at from
below, from above, from either side. The blues dedicated by
Carles
Benavent to Jaco Pastorius, the tango bulería with
which Tino
di Geraldo paid tribute to Diego Carrasco, ‘Entre
tinieblas’ by Jorge Pardo... now used as a final blackboard
to scribble sounds upon from here and there, from ‘Anda
jaleo’ to ‘La zarzamora’, from popular Spanish
tradition to the world. Everyone plays. The transcended bass.
The out-of-this-world sax. The brutish drums. A synthesis
song that brings the crowd to their feet; they shout, applaud
and stamp their feet, asking for more. And although they assure
that “among their virtues is that of not being tedious”,
the trio agrees to the encore with ‘La danza del fuego’
by Manuel de Falla... their way, between faithful to the score
and punk, between well-behaved and scattered. A concert by
truly great musicians and huge music which was a breath of
fresh air in the sonorous ‘monotony’ of a festival
with a hundred-odd performances. Phew!
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