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FLAMENCO DISCOGRAPHIES. DIEGO CARRASCO
The wizard of compás
To say Diego
Carrasco is to say compás. Nobody knows better
than this Jerez-born artist how to play and create upon
flamenco’s different heartbeats. That’s how
he has managed to make his own way and a new one for the
genre. He stopped being guitarist Tate de Jerez in order
to raise his voice and his ingenuity with his first solo
album: ‘Tomaketoma’. Coming next would be ‘Cantes
y sueños’, ‘A tiempo’, ‘Voz
de referencia’, ‘Inquilino del mundo’…
and quite a few collaborations, productions and scores for
flamencos of his time, among them, Camarón. Playing
with the rhythm, with deep poetry, with children’s
songs, with the songs of others, with age-old cantes, with
daily tales, with guitars and friendly voices… mark
his recorded repertoire, highlighted by now emblematic songs
such as ‘Nana de colores’, ‘Alahéa’
and ‘Mi momá’. Diego Carrasco’s
discography, personal and untransferable, is the connecting
link between flamenco’s past and future.
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Mi
ADN flamenco 2004
Like the double genetic
helix, 'Mi ADN flamenco' gathers all the information
about Diego Carrasco, the artist and the person.
This disc "is the flesh of my flesh, reflecting
real experience, which involves having made
'Inquilino del mundo' beforehand. And to that
end, the songs I like most are included and
recovered". Nine retaken scores, versions
and songs coexist on this album which cries
out for 'Libertad' (‘Freedom’),
greets Dolly and pays tribute to Camarón,
with the ease of someone working at home...
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Medios Colección 2002
Record company Nuevos Medios, the home of new
flamenco, celebrated its twentieth anniversary
with a collection of twenty compilations of
the main musicians in its catalogue. And a volume
couldn’t be missing amidst them focusing
on Diego Carrasco’s discography. ‘Nuevos
Medios Colección. Diego Carrasco’
is a selection of eleven songs among the most
representative ones in the career of the Jerez-born
‘rara avis’ flamenco: from ‘Mi
momá’ to ‘Nana de colores’,
with ‘Voz de referencia’ and ‘Cinco
toreros’ in between.
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Inquilino
del mundo 2000
On ‘Inquilino del mundo’, Diego
Carrasco “continues delving into flamenco’s
basic heartbeat”. The album takes a
step further in the Jerez-born musician’s
search for flamenco’s fundamental rhythms
and tradition, but as some critics have pointed
out, nearly inventing a genre of his own.
Words are important here; tales are told like
those of ‘Inquilino del mundo’,
‘Yo, marinero’ and ‘Latero’,
poetry is sung in ‘Me gusta cuando callas’
and ‘Poeta de Cai’, and the periodic
table is even explained in ‘Química’.
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de referencia 1993
Bursting with creativity and without leaving
the canons of traditional flamenco, he composed
‘Voz de referencia’, a historic
album in the gestation of the genre’s
renewing current. The songs contained on this
disc, including the collaborations of musicians
such as Moraíto and Remedios Amaya, are
genuine gems which the multifaceted artist -
guitarist, cantaor, composer, producer - never
forgets to perform in each and every one of
his live concerts. Standing out are ‘Nana
de colores’, ‘Mi momá’
and ‘Cinco toreros’.
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A
tiempo 1991
On his third album, Diego Carrasco confirms
the road begun with ‘Tomaketoma’
and ‘Cantes y sueños’.
The disc includes two brilliant songs based
on poetry: ‘La canción del mariquita’
by Lorca and ‘Silbo de la llaga perfecta’
by Miguel Hernández. There’s
also one of the songs choreographed by Mario
Maya which is now a part of his legacy, ‘Oliva
y naranja’. In addition, there is the
praise sung to Fernanda de Utrera, the resounding
bulería ‘Peña el Bollo’
and the curious musical experiment which is
‘Flamenco barroco’.
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1984 + Cantes
y sueños 1987
After forging a career as an accompanying guitarist
with the name Tate de Jerez, Diego Carrasco
took up a new road. On his first two albums
(re-released together in 2003), ‘Tomaketoma’
and ‘Cantes y sueños’, he
captured that restlessness, which brought out
his facet as a composer, producer and flamenco
renovator, but without ever losing his roots.
Songs such as ‘Alahéa’, ‘Olina,
‘Cae la tarde’ and ‘Latraji’
came out in these recordings, including the
participation of musicians of the likes of Cañizares,
Moraíto, Manuel Soler and Benavent, among
others.
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Colaboraciones
Flamencos
del siglo XXI DVD 2004
Diego Carrasco, Jorge Pardo, Tino di Geraldo,
Carles Benavent and Dorantes live in a concert
recorded at the world music festival Etnosur
2004. Each of them makes his proposal and
merges in the transitions as well as in the
finale of this unique concert by maestros
of the most heterodox flamenco.
Territorio
flamenco 2003
With production by Isidro Muñoz, this
flamenco vision for timeless classics was
conceived. And Diego Carrasco had to take
‘Hello, Dolly!’ to his ground,
a song which he later included on his album
‘ADN flamenco’.
Los
jóvenes flamencos 2000
The compilations ‘Los jóvenes
flamencos’, genuine sound guides to
‘new flamenco’, resorted to Diego
Carrasco’s music in nearly all of its
installments. ‘Fernanda’ was in
the fourth volume, ‘Peña El Bollo’
was in the sixth, and in the seventh, ‘Poeta
de Cai’.
‘Flamenco’
de Carlos Saura DVD 1995
One of the liveliest scenes in Carlos Saura’s
‘Flamenco’ is the one starring
Manolo Sanlúcar and Diego Carrasco
to the sound of the alegrías ‘La
Puerta del Príncipe’, together
with Juan Carlos Romero, Las Peligro and Tino
di Geraldo.
Rito
y geografía del toque. Volumen 2 DVD
1979
The most faithful testimony of who guitarist
Tate de Jerez was got filmed by TVE’s
cameras in the series ‘Rito y geografía
del cante’, with a 17-minute special
feature recorded in 1979.
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