Electronic music and flamenco join
hands on Digitano

Tomasito, Antonio Carmona, Elena Andújar and El Falo all take part in the experiment

Flamenco-world.com

Flamenco continues to expand musical horizons. We've seen fusions with jazz, rock, pop, Indian music, South American music, Arabic and Afro sounds in the past. Now it's the turn of electronic sounds to bathe flamenco on a project named Digitano (which could easily have been named "electrolé"...). The experiment wasn't something that was planned - the idea sprang from a dance festival, where during the course of the night a DJ decided to "mix Camarón's La Canastera with an electronic backing track, while the crowd went into a collective frenzy". The label La Pequeña Jamaica created the album with flamenco artists like Antonio Carmona, leader of the group Ketama, Tomasito, Eva Durán, Elena Andújar, El Falo and Nono García, who give free rein to this fusion project, undertaken "with due respect". Samplers, synthesizers and drum machines are used to redefine the sounds of tanguillos, bulerías, bamberas, rumbas, malagueñas... And the result: "the cutting edge of electronic rhythms in the service of probably the most beautiful music in the world: flamenco" are the words the label uses to sum up the Digitano project.

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