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Wednesday,
September 6th.
Real
Palace, Seville
DISCONNECT
YOUR MOBILE PHONES
The Montería
palace patio, day two, El Pele and El Chocolate, two singers with a mythological,
copper gilded curse brought on by two women with the likes of Mayte Martin and
Inmaculada Aguilar.
Mayte
Martín. Song
Guitar:
Chicuelo
Mayte Martín
Barcelona based
singer and daring non-gypsy: To start off with, a two-sized petenera (done
her way and that of Menese) and Vidalita (in the style of Carmen Linares). "Please
disconnect your moviles", she says before giving herself over to classical
seguiriyas, that she finishes with a gracious gesture that brings out the
feeling of Triana (Gypsy quarter in Sevillia) and of Jerez. Chicuelo gave a modern
introduction on the guitar and together they get down with disperse and detailed
Cantiñas, who doesn´t exactly have quick feet but lets them receive a sweet
homecoming. The last time that Mayte was in Seville, she sang a soleá
for the dancing of Belen Maya, and the next time she will have published her second
flamenco CD. Chicuelo, for his part is the first to launch while preparing for
"Metamorfosis" wih Israel Galvin.
El
Pele. Song
Guitar:
Manuel Silveria
Percussion: César Moreno
El Pele
Manuel Silveria
is a classical guitarist who also creates his own classifications. And El Pele
sings like the old ones already. He starts off by hatching ten soleares
of various types and continues with seguiriyas in the snail breath style
that finalize the greatness of Paco la Luz and the "días señalaítos"
that mark El Torre. Silveria is supported by three percussion instruments (including
djembe) for the bulería por sloeá and alegrías:
"I wear the feeling of a sky scraper/I wear the feeling of my fisherman town."
("Me lleva el aire del rascacielo/ me lleva el aire de mi barrio marinero".)
EL
Chocolate. Song
Guitar:
Antonio Carrión
El Chocolate
A very mixed experience,
that of Antonio Nuñez "El Chocolate" when he opens up with a
couple of malagueñas and tarantos. Singing soleá
he slowly spins the chord for Tomas, (the praise of his right hand man Antonio
Carrión) and he puts himself to singing expressive fandangos that
come from the personal realm and his seven decades of living.
Inmaculada
Aguilar. Dance
Inmaculada Aguilar
She said goodbye
to El Chocolate from her dark tower of ebony and left the stage with the martinete/seguiriya/bulerías
of Imnaculada Aguilar, philosopher and dance professor. Broche calmed down a night
of heat and composure, that the lukewarm organization titled "Splendor."
Luis Clemente
Translated
by Jessica Lorber
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