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- country:Spain
- region:Madrid
- style(s):Flamenco
- label:Warnermusic.es
- type:Band, Solo, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:LunaFlamenca Producciones
Line up
- Alain Perez (guitar bass)
- Israel Porrina (percusion, cajón, palmas)
- Jose Enrique (Singer)
- Niño Josele (flamenco lead guitar)
- Option Dance.............. (Juan de Juan)
- Option Singer............. (..........to be confirm................)
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Nino Josele- El mar de mi ventana - Warner
A boat named freedom.
His body demanded it, but there was also a clamour around him. "Listen, this jazz stuff and Bill Evans...it's all very nice, but when are you gonna get back to flamenco?" Well, here he is...
But on his terms. Nino Josele has anchored his boat in many ports, and everything he's learned is brought to bear when he plays a solea, a tango, or a buleria. He's always trying to push it further. After all, that's what Enrique taught him. It couldn't be otherwiseplaying alongside the "maestro of maestros" since the age of seventeen leaves its mark. And inscribed in that mark is a way of doing, a way of respecting the roots of tradition, of anchoring them firmly, and from there, seeing what happens.
The opening song, which gives the album its name, is dedicated to Morente. He even wrote the lyrics so that his prodigious voice would express the mysteries of the solea in unison with the unique touch of the guitarist. No one can replace him. Morente's death left the song an 'orphan', so it stayed an instrumental, a child of Granada and Spanish music.
"El mar de mi ventana" is Nino Josele's return to flamenco. But the truth is he never left. When he accompanies Joe Lovano or Chick Corea or Calamaro, it's flamenco, but his way. His fingers have a mind of their own, and there's no way to stop them. They draw from many streams. As he says himself, "Flamenco is like the sea; it is fed by many rivers, by many sources". And it's also the inner sea, which he lets us gaze at through the 'window' that opens this album, written in his native Almeria. Then we are invited to board his boat, with its first-class crew of Tomatito, Duquende, Alain Perez, Carles Benavent, Lola Molina, Jose Enrique, Solea, Estrella Morente, and (this is really going to be something) another exceptional talent in the shape of Paco de Lucia.
With this last addition, the voyage takes us to the new world. On "Caribena", Nino Josele repays the gift of Paco's collaboration with another gifta melody "halfway between rumba flamenca and Carribean sounds". He then lets him take the verse, so he can play around a bit, enjoy himself, improvise. The result: two geniuses of the guitar exchanging ideas, letting themsleves be carried along by the ocean currents of the Carribean and Andalucia. But don't just read about it, listen.
There's a strip of the comic Mafalda in which one of the characters is amazed at how much a pencil lead can contain. It just needs to be put to paper, and out come houses, people, trees etc. It's the same with Nino Josele's guitar. One wonders how it can contain so many tones, so many sounds, so much wisdom...so many things.
Nino Josele returns to flamenco without ever having left, and with all the humility and dignity of one who knows that life is a continous learning experience. Now, as always, it's time to enjoy this shared knowledge.
SHOWS: El Mar de mi ventana
NINO JOSELE - QUARTET
NINO JOSELE - SEXTET with DANCE
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