Dorantes unites his flamenco piano with Eitetsu Hayasi’s Japanese drums in ‘Resonancia’

The concerts, which will also include the participation of the Yoko Komatsubara Ballet, will take place on January 8th and 9th at the New National Theatre in Tokyo

Flamenco-world.com, December 2009

Neither the cultural nor the geographic distance has hindered it. Flamenco-roots pianist Dorantes and Japanese percussionist Eitetsu Hayasi have united their music in a joint show entitled ‘Resonancia’... or ‘Hibiki’. The concert will be performed on January 8th and 9th, 2010 at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. The show includes the participation of the Yoko Komatsubara Ballet, one of the leading ambassadors of flamenco dancing in Japan.

Dorantes (Photo Daniel Muñoz)

Scarcely a few months ago, Dorantes demonstrated the capacity his music has to dialogue with other genres. In the show ‘Convivencias’, which was presented at the 2009 Etnosur Festival and at a theater on Madrid’s Gran Vía, the Lebrija-born pianist managed for scores off his albums ‘Orobroy’ and ‘Sur’ to be performed by a philharmonic orchestra and by a flamenco jazz trio.

Now he goes a step further. Dorantes, the grandson of La Perrata and nephew of El Lebrijano, knocks his philosophy of coexistence up a notch. And he teams up with one of Japan’s top contemporary creators, taiko drum maestro Eitetsu Hayasi. “When Dorantes listened to Eitetsu’s sounds, he visualized an understanding beyond languages, races and space, two pioneer musicians, each one on his instrument, but with artistic responsibility, connoisseurs of their countries’ musical tradition and expressed in the most contemporary of forms”, they explain from their office.

And the result is ‘Hibiki’, or translated into Spanish, ‘Resonancia’ (‘Resonance’). A musical pas de deux which can be seen on January 8th and 9th, 2010 at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. The show will also have dancing, contributed on this occasion by the Yoko Komatsubara Ballet. The veteran artist is one of the top ambassadors of Spanish dance in her country, with a career over forty years long.

Eitetsu Hayasi

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