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To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Chekara Orchestra of Tetouan and the tenth anniversary of the death of its founder, Abdessadak Chekara, Zapata Pepe directed the documentary So close, yet so far: The Orchestra Chekara in Flamenco, a trip Morocco trip from Granada who may be this afternoon for the first time in Spain at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, after 19 hours.
As explained by Zapata, the film started in November 2007 at the invitation of the family Chekara.
It begins as a physical journey through the history, places, and the members of the orchestra, a path of transformation and mixing of music and cultures.
In his immigration from Tetuan to Granada, the Chekara family members through several generations, not only have encouraged the twinning of Arabic music and flamenco, but have worked actively in the conservation of Andalusian music.
From the hand of Jallal Chekara, Adbessadak nephew and current leader of the orchestra, the author traces the history of that family through footage collected from Moroccan television and testimony from family members still alive.
Also part of the footage some of the musicians who have collaborated with them.
Pepe Segundo Falcón Bean, through Carmen Linares or Lebrijano, are Morente Heredia and who shaped the history of important musical associations of this band.
The documentary is co-produced by his own orchestra and current leader, Jallal Chekara also Flamenco Music Channel and the distributor is love.
CHEKARA ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
And in The Sea of Music, the Orchestra presented Chekara tonight, after 23 hours, in the Artillery Park, accompanied by the songs of Archangel, Lole Montoya and Young Flamencos.
Morocco and Andalusia.
The two sides of the strait.
Tickets at 15 euros.
More than twenty years ago that musicians began to Abdessadak Chekara orders Pepe Heredia, to twin Andalusian music and flamenco in the show "Macamajonda."
And twelve since they got together for a concert with Enrique Morente, who accompanied him on his "Omega" at the Bienal de Sevilla 2000.
A year later premiered "Couscous Flamenco" show with Segundo Falcón and Archangel.
Such encounters between flamenco and Arabic music has also organized the singer Juan Peña Fernández, El Lebrijano.
With Michael Nyman, British composer and pianist who put sound to the visual delusions of Peter Greenaway and triumphed with "The Piano", his score for Jane Campion film, touched first in the Auditorium of La Cartuja in Seville the summer of 1992.
Those were the days of the Expo and the official name of the Moroccan Andalusian Orchestra of Tetouan.
A Nyman was struck by how North African musicians have to support the violin in the thigh instead of placing it on the shoulder and wrote for the occasion "The upside-down violin" ("The violin upside down").
Last year the band spent two bittersweet celebrations: half a century and ten years after the death of its founder, violinist and singer Abdessadak Chekara.
Hallal, Chekara nephew, is to continue the work begun by his uncle.
Now with the Archangel, Lole Montoya and some young singers and guitarists such as Raul Cantizano, Alicia Acuna, Vicente Gelo, Maria Angeles Gavaldón, Lidia del Valle and Raul Montilla, with which the orchestra has collaborated.
VICTOR DEME, MUSICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR
And to complete the program of La Mar de Músicas, Démé Victor, a musician from Burkina Faso with his melodies from folk and blues with Latin influences is gaining attention in Europe will perform this afternoon at 20.00 hours on Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Victor Démé have inherited his love for music from his mother, who in the sixties sang at weddings and christenings important Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest city.
And they claim that she brought her voice.
Although Victor Démé adolescence takes place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in the small sewing workshop father.
It must be said that the family Démé seam is passed from one generation to another: stitching his uncles, aunts, sisters ...
So during the day working with his father and night clubs frequented the Ivorian capital.
And sing in small groups.
With twenty years is a member of the famous Super Mandé orchestra, led by Abdoulaye Diabate.
In 1988 he returned to Burkina Faso, where he won several music awards, and becomes part of bands like Echo or Suprême Comenba Africa, which animate the evenings of Ouagadougou.
Is 26.
And many illusions.
After Dark break, Victor Démé resumed his musical activities, but it meets the requirements of the owners of the clubs to sing classic songs of Salif Keita and Mory Kante.
His compositions are relegated.
Now, 46 years, and with the support of four French citizens who decide to create Chapa Blues to give shelter, Victor Démé has been recording his first album.
With songs like "Burkina mousse" a tribute to the women of Burkina Faso that have built the country with their hands, "Peuple Burkinabé" call for national solidarity "or" Djon maya "that calls for tolerance.
Were recorded in the makeshift studio in the artistic association Ouagajungle in Ouagadougou: two rooms separated by the windshield of a truck and a simple table 16-track recording.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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