Diálogos

Diálogos
De viejos y nuevos sones

Roots music such as flamenco is a constant growth of new branches from the trunk of tradition, an ongoing interaction between the new and the old. Fahmi Alqhai and Rocío Márquez, each from their own place on that eternal trunk, intertwine their musical leaves in search of the points where the cantes still sung today meet their origins – some handed down to us by oral tradition, others read in old manuscripts. There are flamenco cantes that travelled from Andalusia to the folklore of the Americas and back to Andalusia, but also chaconas and canarios that crossed the Atlantic to be written down in the first books for Spanish guitar, back in the 17th century; ostinato songs by the great Monteverdi alongside ancestral seguiriyas, with their chord progression – always identical to itself – which came from that same Italy of the Seicento; cantes from Alosno alongside cants del ocells…

Juan Ramón Lara

Diálogos. De viejos y nuevos sones.

Toná (traditional) 1.29

La Spagna (anon. 15th c.) 3.11

Romance del Rey Moro & Granaína (Luis de Narváez, fl. 1526-1549 & traditional) 4.17

Las morillas de Jaén (anon. c. 1500 from Cancionero de Palacio) 3.47

Jaleos (traditional) 3.54

Vidalita (traditional) 7.01

Folías (various authors, c. 1700) 5.35

Siguiriya (traditional) 5.22

No hay que decirle el primor (Xácara & Bulería) (anon. 17th c. & traditional) 5.30

Guaracha & Guajira (Juan García de Zéspedes, c. 1619-1678 & traditional) 5.58

Mi son que trajo la mar Cantes de ida y vuelta
01. Mariona 2:30
02. Colombiana 2:37
03. Siempre contigo 1:11
04. Zamba 4:04

05. Preludio 1:49
06. Bambera 3:45 On a poem by Santa Teresa

07. La mañana de San Juan 3:25 Cante from Alosno

08. Aires de peteneras 7:33
09. A la una yo nací 3:46

10. Si dolce è’l tormento 4:51 Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

11. Nana on “El cant dels ocells” 8:48 Lyrics by Manuel García

12. Angelitos negros 5:39