The record company Flamenco World
Music premieres with cantaora Encarna Anillo and guitarist
Jesús Torres
The label seeks to spread today’s
flamenco music internationally
The official presentation will take place
at Festival de Jerez 2008 with a collective concert
Saxophonist Jorge Pardo and cantaor David
Lagos star in upcoming releases
Flamenco-world.com, February 2008
Today’s flamenco music
has a new ally. The record label Flamenco World Music
is born to meet the growing demand for the spread of today’s
flamenco worldwide. And proof of it is its first two releases,
which come out on March 3rd, 2008. ‘Barcas de plata’
is the first solo album by Cádiz-born cantaora
Encarna
Anillo, with executive producer Miguel Poveda, winner
of the 2007 National Music Prize. And ‘Viento del
Norte’ by guitarist Jesús
Torres is the result of an entire career devoted to
accompaniment and composing for flamenco dancing greats
such as Antonio Gades. Both albums, as well as a preview
of the upcoming release by David Lagos, will be presented
on February 26th in a collective concert at Festival de
Jerez 2008.
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Encarna Anillo
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The world is going to sound more flamenco.
A new specialized record company springs up with the firm
purpose of spreading today’s flamenco music internationally.
Flamenco World Music, a project driven forward by the
veteran website Flamenco-world.com, is born with the aim
of “helping musicians who are making flamenco evolve
today to make their artistic proposals known, covering
an area which the large record companies are neglecting”.
The label’s philosophy is “the launch of a
catalogue specializing in flamenco which lays stakes on
quality and artistic freedom, and that makes records which
will last available to the international public”.
Said and done. March 3rd, 2008 is the
release date for the Spanish company’s first two
albums: ‘Barcas de plata’ by Encarna Anillo
and ‘Viento del Norte’ by Jesús Torres.
The Cádiz-born cantaora makes her record début
with an album whose executive producer is Miguel
Poveda, winner of the 2007 National Music Prize. Encarna
Anillo, sponsored artistically by Carmen Linares, introduces
herself with a classical-style album on which she captures
her vast experience, her deep knowledge of cante and her
personal trademark, which experts are already defining
as vitalistic, exquisite and sensitive. She is accompanied
by a selection of the best guitars on today’s scene,
among others, those of Chicuelo,
Diego del Morao, Juan Requena and Juan Diego; besides
having guests as special as Farruquito, who has composed
the bulerías ‘No hay tiempo’ for her.
Jesús Torres
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‘Viento del Norte’ contributes
new color to the contemporary flamenco guitar scene. Jesús
Torres comes up to the foreground following an entire
career devoted to accompaniment and composing for leading
baile figures such as
Antonio Gades, Mario Maya, Isabel Bayón and
Rafaela Carrasco. And he takes up that entire musical
universe again from the perspective of a solo virtuoso
faithful to the roots, but open to today’s sound
trends. The Ecijan tocaor has the collaboration of cantaores
Miguel Poveda, Encarna Anillo and Manuel Gago, and of
instrumentalists like Argentinean bandoneon player Jorge
Lema and flamenco percussionist Antonio Coronel. As writer
José Manuel Gamboa affirms, this album is “a
surprise concealed and, until now, displayed in bits at
the back of the stage, behind the batas de cola”.
Presentation and new projects
The presentation of Flamenco World Music
will take place at Festival
de Jerez 2008. Within the Singing Café series,
the company will be presented with a collective concert
by three of its artists. Cádiz-born Encarna Anillo
will perform a selection of the repertoire included on
‘Barcas de plata’, accompanied on guitar by
Juan Requena and Juan
Diego. Guitarist Jesús Torres will do a recital
based on ‘Viento del Norte’, in the company
of guitarist Arcadio Marín and percussionist Antonio
Coronel. And David Lagos will reveal a sneak preview of
his record project ‘El espejo en que me miro’,
accompanied on toque by Alfredo Lagos. The album by the
Jerez-born cantaor is one of two releases which Flamenco
World Music is getting ready for next fall. The other
will be ‘Vientos Flamencos II’ by flamenco
jazz saxophonist and flutist Jorge Pardo.
