New Flamenco

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New Flamenco ("Flamenco Nuevo") is synonymous with contemporary flamenco, and is often confused with flamenco pop, or latino and even mariachi music.

A modern, diverse musical form, the globalized "New Flamenco" appeals to listeners particularly in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

The history of "new flamenco" can be traced back directly to "old flamenco" (see the cafés cantantés period, and Rámon Montoya (1880-1949)). Fortunately, some old flamenco was immortalized by records and still serves as inspiration to New Flamenco artists.

1 New Flamenco movement
2 New Flamenco
3 New Flamenco artists
4 Flamenco Pop
5 External links

[edit] New Flamenco movement

The most important early pioneers of New Flamenco are the guitarist Paco de Lucía, and singer Camarón de la Isla. Between 1968 and 1979 they enjoyed a fruitful collaboration which produced 10 albums, of which many introduced fresh musical concepts into the traditional and somewhat 'dusty' music style that flamenco had become. After their collaboration Paco de Lucía went on to develop flamenco music in many different directions, even back into the Moorish music origins of traditional flamenco music.

[edit] New Flamenco

New flamenco always respects its central concept of rhythm, complemented by dance, music or voice (or all or some combination there of). The flamenco guitar plays a sentinel role in aiding flamenco. It is sometimes joined by violin, flute, bass. It is said that the person playing the instrument is flamenco, not the instrument itself. A variety of tonalities (see tonality) is possible, sometimes assimilating other genres such as jazz, Classical music and blues and others, yet trying never to lose its focus on flamenco and its character. As such, the full essence of "new flamenco" may be fully expressed without a guitar being played (see palo seco). This provides a great contrast within new flamenco. No matter how "new" the flamenco, it will never violate its own compás, cante or baile.

[edit] New Flamenco artists

New Flamenco artists have a fundamental thread uniting them. They respect the established compás of flamenco music, and can therefore build on the works of previous generations of flamencos, with flamenco music being the focus (as opposed to a music being inspired by flamenco but focusing on something else).

A few of today's leading New Flamenco guitarists are Paco de Lucia, Tomatito, Diego de Morao, Vicente Amigo, Pedro Sierra, Gerardo Nuñez, Chicuelo, Juan Carmona, Niño Josele, Ramon Jimenez

A few of today's leading New Flamenco singers are Diego El Cigala, Duquende, Potito, Enrique Morente his daughter Estrella Morente, Miguel Poveda etc...

A few of today's leading New Flamenco guitarists in the United States are Arturo Martinez, Chuscales, Val Ramos, Jose Ramon Ramos, Denis Koster etc...

[edit] Flamenco Pop

More multi-faceted musicians, such as singers Pata Negra, Alejandro Sanz, Martirio and guitarists Lyloly, Strunz & Farah, Jesse Cook, Ottmar Liebert, Young & Rollins, and Luis Villegas are often mislabelled new flamenco, and have borrowed from flamenco and diversified their experiments with latin jazz, salsa, rock, pop, blues and so on.

Outside of Spain, one of the most famous Flamenco Pop groups are the French group Gipsy Kings, which based almost their entire repertoire on traditional "Rumba Flamenca". Also from France, Louis Winsberg founded the group Jaleo, which takes fusion experiments one step further, introducing elements from Arabic, Indian and African music traditions.