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Progressive flamenco
Gualberto (Photo:
Daniel Muñoz)
It sounds strange, but progressive rock had a decisive influence
on flamenco. Those space sounds which a faction of rock was
gliding through in the sixties reached the ears of young musicians
brought up in flamenco tradition, but restless to break the
rules. Smash, Lole
y Manuel, Triana, Gualberto... were the first to undertake
a journey which captivated thousands of youths tired of the
folklorism the regime used as a means of distraction. Smash
united rockers with flamencos such as cantaor Manuel Molina
and Gualberto on sitar and guitar, around a new sound in which
producer Gonzalo García-Pelayo played a leading role.
And it didn't fall upon deaf ears. The same path was followed
by the recordings of Manuel Molina with Lole Montoya, the
emblematic duo Lole y Manuel, starting with ‘Nuevo día’;
those of Gualberto solo, recently re-released; those of the
group Triana, a prime example of the so-called Andalusian
rock; and even the one done in the middle of the seventies
by guitarist Diego de Morón (and now recovered on CD),
thus fusing Diego del Gastor's school of guitar. Even today
you can discern the recollection of that current in some of
the arrangements.
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