The Secrets Of Andalusia

Description

We know that the main influences on flamenco date back to the Islamic Iberian period or the Andalusian era of Spain between the 8th and 15th centuries. However, the first mention of the name 'flamenco' only appears in 1774, in an epistolary novel, Cartas Marruecas, by José de Cadalso y Vázquez. What happened during those centuries? In collaboration with soprano Victoria Couper, kanun player Konstantinos Glynos, and flamenco and oud guitarist Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, this album seeks to explore this question by tracing the influences on flamenco through Arabic music alongside Sephardic song and Spanish composers from the late 16th to the 18th century.