| 1. Ya puedo empezar (bulerías) |
2. Homenaje al Chaqueta (soleá) |
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| 3. En 'er' mundo (pasodoble) | 4. Media ración (rumba) | |
| 5. Danza del fuego | 6. Dos siglos (soleá) | |
| 7. Tintando el día (guajira) | 8. Viejo mundo (bulería) | |
| 9. Cádiz | 10. Billones de años | |
| 11. Membrillo (joropo) | ||
In the music “collection” ‘Vientos flamencos 2’, Jorge Pardo launches a refreshing regard at traditional Spanish music. And the thing is that not only does he take care of delving deep into the dialogue between jazz and flamenco which he is an outstanding forerunner of, but is also inspired by Spanish pasodoble, joropos and Latin American guajiras and classical Isaac Albéniz. The album moreover includes songs of his own such as the bulerías ‘Ya puedo empezar’ and a double tribute to Camarón: the soleá ‘Homenaje al Chaqueta’ and ‘Viejo mundo’. The eighth solo album by the Madrilenian saxophonist is a record with a collaborative spirit recorded at home studios in which nearly thirty musicians are heard.
THE MOST EXCITING GAME, BY JORGE PARDO
Learning is the most
exciting game. Sometimes, experience is an obstacle. And if there’s
anyone who’s annoying, it’s the ‘Talibans’ of
any religion or discipline or job. They worship the method and despise
the essence. Thus, the ‘Talibans’ of art, of flamenco, of
jazz, they insist on authorizing or forbidding, always at the wrong moment,
different currents of art or thought, writing theses or reviews where,
like each and every person in his activity, they mainly reflect their
miseries.
Everything’s within the same rhythm and the same chord
Sorry, I lost my train of thought...
Most jazz musicians used to make music out of necessity - economic, social purely artistic -; among their anxieties, apart from the aforementioned ones, was for sure that of spreading their art, their existence, denouncing their problems, those of their families, showing their face to the world, their ways, their truth, their way of seeing the world, life, collectively and individually. I fell in love with it. The music, besides being beautiful, had soul... The soul is hidden when the needs are more selfish and wretched.
Being number 1 is nonsense; it’d be enough to be
“one” What bothers me is the -ism of things. Thus, I like
flamenco and not ‘flamenco-ism’, I like Picasso and not ‘Picasso-ism’
… To maintain the level of quality, you also have to maintain the
level of mediocrity … that’s called “homogenizing”…
You can’t subject everything to homogenization, things are the way
they are … like bread tastes different from one end to the other,
top and bottom, inside and out.
Flamenco is like a big city. No matter how big a neighborhood or an artist
is, they aren’t anything without the rest of the city …
More often than not, public notoriety is a hindrance for creativity and
genuine satisfaction in your work.
Now with nearly every film that’s made, a parallel one is made which
is later exploited with the title “The Making of”. Some of
them are interesting, but it would also be interesting for them to shoot
“Why Was ... Made?”.
CREDITS
1 YA PUEDO EMPEZAR bulerías
(Jorge Pardo) Mis palos
Flute: Jorge Pardo
Piano solo: Polo Ortí
Clapping and jaleos: Peña Elbucle
Box drum: Moy Natenzon
2 HOMENAJE AL CHAQUETA soleá
(José Monje Cruz) x Camarón
Flute: Jorge Pardo
Guitar: Juan Diego
Earthen vat: Juan Peña ‘El Chispa’
Clapping: Lapeña
3 EN ‘ER’ MUNDO pasodoble
(J. Fernández Lorenzo / J. Quintero Muñoz) Mis pasodobles
Tenor sax: Jorge Pardo
Guitar: Nono García
Drums: Moy Natenzon
Bass: Alejandro Vaquerizo
Reeds and kazoos: Lapeña
4 MEDIA RACIÓN rumba
(Jorge Pardo) Mis palos
Soprano, tenor sax and flute: Jorge Pardo
Clarinet: Joaquín Sanchez Gil ‘El Calaíta’
Trumpet: Kike Rodríguez
Guitars: Josemi Carmona
Bass: Francis Posé
Percussions: Fernando Marconi and Pau Martínez (Dúo Batuke)
Clapping: Lapeña
5 DANZA DEL FUEGO
(Manuel de Falla) Solo flauta
Flute: Jorge Pardo
6 DOS SIGLOS soleá
(Jorge Pardo) Mis Palos
Soprano sax: Jorge Pardo
Guitar: El Paquete
Cante: Antonio Carbonell
7 TINTANDO EL DÍA guajira
(Héctor González) Qué grandes músicos
Flute: Jorge Pardo
Piano: Héctor González
8 VIEJO MUNDO bulería
(Omar Khayyam/Veneno) x Camarón
Processed sax: Jorge Pardo
Electric guitar: Javier Pedreira
Bass: José Vera
Processed percussions: Moy Natenzon
9 CÁDIZ
(Isaac Albéniz) Qué grandes músicos
Soprano and tenor sax: Jorge Pardo
Bass: Carles Benavent
Percussion: Tino di Geraldo
10 BILLONES DE AÑOS
(Jorge Pardo) Pensamientos
Tenor sax: Jorge Pardo
Electric guitars and bass: Paco Rivas
Vocals: Diego Cruz
Drums: Vicente Climent
Trumpet: Kike Rodríguez
Congas and percussion: David Cobo
Marimba: Rogerio de Souza
Violin: Raúl Márquez
Fender Piano: Juan Belda
Production, arrangements and instrumentation: Paco Rivas and Jorge Pardo
11 MEMBRILLO joropo
(Juan Romero) Qué grandes músicos
Tenor sax: Jorge Pardo
Bass: Carles Benavent
Percussion: Tino di Geraldo
Percussion: Rubem Dantas
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