Auserón Santiago embarks this summer in John Dog & The Zarabanda a new project to fresh and natural synthesis of the rhythms African Americans, Latinos and Hispanics.
The Sarabande was, before entering the halls of the European court music, the most famous black dance in Spain.
Dog John has wanted to be reincarnated at his side, and La Mar de Musicas this project found suitable to replace the French group Zebda has canceled his concert at the festival, for reasons unrelated to the organization.
So two of the song, and James Capossela Vinicio Auserón, act on Friday night July 27 in Cartagena. Auditorio Parque Torres.
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In his attempt to open new avenues for the Spanish folk song, Juan Perro has developed two lines of musical research, promoting the encounter with the Cuban son, looking at the New Orleans African American sound closer to the Spanish.
After feeding on these two sources of black music and American mestizo does the singing in Spanish and singing in English ¿, it's time to show clearly the links between music and our historical involvement with them.
The Spanish music and lyric traditions preserved traces of its long relationship with the rhythms of blackness.
Through Middle Eastern cultures present among us for centuries and also by the direct presence of Africans in Spain, before his music prendiese in the American colonies.
Oblivion repeated these influences throughout our history has not prevented the flamenco What ¿deeply connected with them were to become richer and our music recognized.
Neither the generations educated in rock actualizasen pulse of blackness in a wider social dimension.
The project aims to contribute to John Dog rekindle that memory complex, spread the belief that our position border between North and South, between East and West, is the seed of music, poetry and thought.
The project aims primarily rhythmic.
The synthesis of the two tracks of blackness views from Spain to have its focal point for support in the way we participate in culture through polyrhythmic play the flamenco, jazz, rock and roll and drift of Afro-Latin music and relations between them.
Sarabande is the name of the first song and dance of blacks born in Andalusia who achieved international renown.
With him were revived influence of Jews and Moriscos expelled Roma contributed to its spread.
The popular and literary imagination personified as a prostitute Zarabanda legendary Seville and the Indies.
Maybe the show could begin with the personification of the Sarabande as black gypsy dancing in a circle, accompanied by castanets, but with contemporary feel, to flow into an instrumental prelude.
And all the musicians end up, forming a circle, clapping their hands around it, leaving one at a time to have a dance, singing songs old and new to the tune why did such a soiree of the Chaconne (twin sister the Sarabande) John Aranese.
According to Miguel de Cervantes, the famous dog Berganza dancing the sarabande and the chaconne itself better than its inventor.
Let's see if we can emulate.
Artistic team: David Pastor: Trumpet, Gabriel Amargant CHORUS: sax, clarinet, Carlos Martin CHORUS: trombone, percussion, choir Porro Did Moses: drums, percussion, Luis Alfonso Guerra CHORUS: percussion ¿Isaac Coll: Bass Javier ¿ Mora: piano, organ ¿Joan Vinyals: electric guitar, voice will Raúl Rodríguez: three flamenco What Auserón Santiago: vocals, acoustic guitar Kata ¿Kanona: dance.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena