| María
la Tero, April 2006
Note: while supplies last. No,
the special edition of ‘Techarí’
by Ojos
de Brujo, which is a book, CD and CD-ROM at
the same time, will not be available for long.
And it isn’t a chance to let pass by. The
multicolored band has managed to gather a heterogeneous
group of top-notch graphic artists to illustrate
the songs on the album, portray the band during
the recording and document the group’s trip
to Havana.
The illustrators’ graphic
work is spread out over the sixty full-color pages
of this book-CD presented in a vertical hardcover
format. David Folvari, Dran, Matthew Curry, Santos
de Veracruz, El Niño de las Pinturas, Gislene
Mayumi... are a few of the prestigious artists
who have been inspired by the music from ‘Techarí’
from such different places on the planet as Toulouse,
Tokyo, Barcelona, Washington, Brighton and Granada.
Different origins, different personalities, different
techniques, different visions... which come together
in the commitment-laden messages sent out in the
songs by Marina la Canillas.
Having enjoyed the comic –
of course, while playing the record – it’s
time for the CD-ROM. Directed by Miguel Ángel
Ramos – in charge of the entire album’s
graphic design – it binds photos, music
videos, a documentary and song lyrics translated
into fifteen languages. The photographs are split
up into two albums: one by David Katzenstein with
ninety photos taken at the recording studio (including
those of flamenco collaborators such as Pepe
Habichuela and Raúl Rodríguez);
and another with some sixty photos by Iván
Soca of moments during the band’s trip to
Cuba. That tour is moreover recorded in a thirteen-minute
documentary entitled ‘Mi Habana sana’
and directed by Ciro Benemelis, which included
both the rehearsals and the performance with Cuban
musicians taking part on the record.
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Three music videos can be watched:
‘Todo tiende’, a collage of Bollywood
symbols created by Miguel Ángel Ramos;
‘Piedras vs. tanques’, an animated
video with comic esthetics by Ermitis Blanco and
Abel Álvarez; and ‘No sin alas’,
graffiti made with quick-motion camera. All of
it in a deluxe pack and for a few euros more than
the standard-edition CD. It’s worth it,
isn’t it?
Contents
Ojos
de Brujo releases ‘Techarí’,
their third bet on experimentation with flamenco
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