- country:Cuba
- region:Central America
- style(s):Flamenco, Afro-Cuban
- label:Akamu
- type:Large Ensemble
- instrumentation:salsa and latin band, dance orchestra
- artist contact:Akamu SAS
Line up
- Aruan Ortiz + 12 musicians + 2 dancers (piano and conduction orchestra)
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commissioned by the Flamenco Biënnale Nederland in 2021, Cuban composer, pianist and music researcher Aruán Ortiz revives the colors of this powerful world musical language, assembling a unique ensemble to explore the roots of flamenco. Musicians from Morocco, Palestine, Cuba, United States and Spain bring the melancholic sounds of Al-Andaluz and the energetic rhythms of Africa into surprising contemporary compositions.
Flamenco Criollo tells a complex story. It includes Persian music, North African influence in Andalusia, the exchange between the port cities of Cádiz and Havana and West African influence in Cuba. All this taking as its center the so-called cantes de ida y vuelta, "travel songs", which went from Spain to the Americas and viceversa.