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This summertime, when persons would inquire me what I was listening to, I would probable listing off a handful of indie bands or a couple of throwback albums I appeared to have skipped out on in the ’80s (I’m looking at you New Get). But what I would fall short to mention, for no genuine unique reason, is that each individual summer time I pay attention to a lot of flamenco. I ask, is there any other design and style of audio as carefully and singularly linked with just one distinct region than flamenco is to Spain?

Even so, its picture has been a little bit tainted as staying kitschy as a outcome of its unfortunate association (in the U.S. at minimum) with cleansing product or service commercials and Spanish tourism promotions. But this could not be more from the truth of the matter. Consider for case in point the large regard that this very previous, very technically complicated, very dynamic new music has in the eyes of someone like famed jazz bassist Dave Holland (who, between other factors, can count Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew to his credits).

A handful of yrs back again, Holland satisfied up with famed flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela, the acclaimed scion of a deep-rooted Gypsy household from Granada, as component of a jazz-meets-flamenco pairing instigated by a Sevilla arts organization. Both equally self-taught masters of their instrument, they instantly shaped a connection and as a outcome of a time invested with each other around the course of 3 years — which included Holland traveling to Spain and immersing himself in flamenco new music and society — are putting out an album correctly identified as “Hands” (which has been receiving rave reviews where out there — like this 1 from the Guardian and this one particular from the Telegraph). The album arrives out in this article in the U.S. on October five, 2010, but you can obtain some wonderful performances on line, like the 1 higher than of their track “Camarón (Taranta)” dwell in July at the San Sebastian Jazz Competition, to keep you about right up until then.