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The Strait of Gibraltar is a natural barrier between two countries: Morocco and Spain, between two continents: Africa and Europe. This narrow 10 km west also divides the East. Few places in the world are so many contrasts in such a small size. However, despite these contrasts, it is clear that the existence of the Strait of Gibraltar was also key to cultural exchange between these two worlds. Spain in turn is a closed territory, uniform, univocal. Within that country living in different regions, peoples and cultures, daughters of miscegenation.

One of the first musical references to thinking about Spain is flamenco, but this music is rather late in the English culture. El Arte Flamenco is an Andalusian art, born in southern Spain, is manifested in three ways: singing, dancing and the guitar.

The first written about flamenco is one of the Letters Marruecas "of Gallows (dating from 1774), in them the writer attributes to the gypsies originated, or at least specifies that it is next to them where their statements more accurate.

But flamenco has also influence of the Moors from North Africa who lived the Muslim Spain. Moroccan music actually keeps many similarities with the harmonies of the English folklore.

Thus, once again rescued the African roots of Western music, we see that Africa has taken root not only in America but also in European musical forms like flamenco mestizo.

worth mentioning that in flamenco, guitar, at first used to accompany the song, this is normally performed without any accompaniment, as has been called a capella except drums with hands or palms touch.

Currently the guitarist not only accompanied but can also be the soloist. In fact Paco de Lucia marks the beginning of a new era of unprecedented splendor, making a stylistic revolution in touch.

The different styles of singing and flamenco rhythms are called sticks;

The first club that is known is The Toná , and the area where they created the basic songs was precisely where most Gypsies have settled, ie the trilogy of the peoples of Triana, Jerez and Cadiz.

One of the figures of flamenco in Jerez de la Frontera is Diego. Ratchet, guitarist, composer, singer and producer also respected flamenco purists and innovators. Born in 1954 and has one of the most personal voices and current flamenco. While initially devoted only to touch, unable to find anyone suitable to play his songs began to sing.

Eliseo Parra

Eliseo Parra was born in Sardon de Duero (Valladolid), before starting his solo career in the nineties and had several decades of roll with various groups through the rock and jazz. But his spirit of research English folklore was reflected from the 80's with the group "mosaic" and then consolidated this facet of the researcher and musicologist in his solo career.

From the work of Parra highlights the album "Hispanic Tribes" , a journey through the rhythms (made with native English percussion), songs and dances of different "tribes" (culture) that populate the central strip of the Iberian Peninsula (from Extremadura Ibiza).

has spent much of his life investigating the folklore and tradition of all cultures that have shaped the Iberian peninsula and, in particular, all those who over time have been lost and that in many cases and only remain in the hands of a few. Eliseo has recorded and preserved musical manifestations that, unfortunately, no longer exist. A cultural heritage that is lost and only through his work as it can perpetuate and preserve.

His latest work is titled "yesterday morning" A commonly used phrase to put what was in the past, used to label a current job with future prospects.

Eliseo Parra has

un contundente show donde hace uso de los más variados instrumentos: Mandolas, Panderos cuadrados, chekeres, Moxeños y ocarinas.

Parra también es productor y escritor de libros que plasman su trabajo de investigación de campo. Es un valioso musicólogo de la península ibérica y además gran compositor, percusionista y cantante. Retoma y revive grandes artistas y compositores que tuvo el folclore español. Como por ejemplo en la zona de Murcia, que ha albergado y visto en acción al Chato de Puerto Lumbreras, un gitano de pura cepa. Que Eliseo homenajea cantándole algunas Jotas. Entre los bailes tradicionales murcianos encontramos en un lugar destacado: The Clubbing , La Malagueña (or Murcia) and La Jota that although it is typically Aragonese, to spread around the whole acquired characteristics and variations in each region.

These jacks of "Chato" Eliseo not only makes use of square tambourine, lute, violin and hassles. It also sounds the bansuri (a bamboo flute of India) and even a Venezuelan cuatro. What makes his re interpretation of tradition in a unique ethnic fusion.

Miquel Gil, Valencia

born on the banks of the Valencian Mediterranean: Roman, Visigoth, Muslim and Christian finally . Includes the provinces of Alicante, Valencia and Castellon. His is the famous garden, palm trees, orange trees and lemon trees, grapevines and olive trees.

Miquel Gil was born there, a great singer who shows that in the non-flamenco of Spain such as Murcia, Valencia, Castile and Aragon much well before the flamenco folklore to discover. The issue is that the flamenco in the last hundred years has had a devastating development, and instead the fandangos, Malaga and Ronda artists like Eliseo Parra Gil Miquel recover or have become extinct.

Miquel Gil's music emphasizes the impurity of the English folk styles, impurity in the right direction, on disk, 2004 entitled Kata quoted Cortazar thinking about Purity, horrible word. Puree and then ZA. Mediterranean traditional music fused with original compositions and texts of poets.

xeremies, mandolins, lutes, bouzokis, Eastern percussion fused with bass and flamenco guitar giving a multi-ethnic spirit to his music.

Among the different styles that runs Miquel is the fandango, air is a popular dance performed by a couple, living movement. The triple meter, eight-syllable verses and the frequent use of castanets mark a close relationship with Jack. Given the popularity of fandango as a dance exhibition in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, is not surprised by his presence and rooted in the tradition of Asturias, Castilla (fandangos charros), Catalonia, Basque Country and Portugal.

Celtic Music, G alicia

The Celtic name for certain musical forms in Asturias and Galicia was mainly due to the use of instruments such as bagpipes and the similarity of some dances and melodies with almost identical rate to that of some Scottish and Irish dances.

Beyond the bagpipes, harp and violin, in Asturias and Galicia are used as specified in this region percussion tambourines, the drums, the drums, the pandeiros and cunchas (or seashells .) Special mention should the Zanfoña , a kind of mechanical violin known as bagpipes poor (much used by beggars).

The Zanfoña is widely used in recent years in Galician folklore. Galician and Asturian music but also the called Celtic has its own personality, and differs from other musical forms in Ireland or Scotland. Some of the featured musicians are the most prominent Asturias Llan de Cubel, Hevia, Weaver or Xuacu Amieva.

The other major Celtic region of Spain is Galicia is located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and is composed of four provinces: A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, and its capital , is the city of Santiago de Compostela, in the province of La Coruña.

Galician dances are marked elegance, ceremonial and sentimental, and the typical instrument is the bagpipe region, the Asturian smaller. The dance feature in Galicia is the muñeira or Serranilla. Muñeira word means milling.

Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands form an autonomous province The archipelago consists of the same name. It has 4,992 km 2 surface, which makes l a less extensive community of Spain. It is located in the center-west of the western Mediterranean, consists of three islands: Mallorca (3624 km 2 ), Menorca (695 km 2 ) and Ibiza (Eivissa, 570 km 2) and two minor-Formentera and Cabrera, as well as some islets Dragonera Conillera (Hutch) and Espalmador. The capital is the city of Palma de Mallorca. The official languages \u200b\u200bare Castilian and Catalan.

Although long time it was believed that "Baleares" came from the Greek word meaning ballein "launch" has lately changed his mind and seems to rule out the Hellenic origin. The origin of the name "Balearic" is not Greek but Punic ie Semitic. Comes from the plural "ba 'lé yaroh." The final meaning would be something like "Masters of the launch." And these teachers are release slingers of the islands. Thus, Baleares mean "slingers."

traditional dances and songs have a great personality. The most typical manifestations of Folklore is the bolero Balearic Balearic and Jack, and variants called Cope and maitexes. In Menorca, sing fandangos Minorca and Ibiza, are relevant to dances and curta sa sa llarga. There is also, from the 1960, a new popular music gestated in the archipelago. Highlights Maria del Mar Bonet, Music Nostra, UC and those with current sounds Raels and in the native language, collect and recreate traditional musical forms.

The repertoire of popular music of the Islands is based mostly on music with or without letter, and underlying musical dances also called "ball de bot." (Literally: Dance Vault).

In another vein, there are Romanços (Stories), often tell stories of love and heartbreak, infidelity, account settings, etc. and normally not generally used for Ball de bot.

A romance is a narrative song, arose from the dissolution of the great poems of heroic poetry, epic poems, in stories brief, or as imitations of them by poets and minstrels. The popular Romance is spread throughout the territory from Castilla, even to the Canary and Balearic Islands.

BARCELONA

Bombo Muchachito hell is a group going to give that talk. Representatives of a new mestizo sound, generated in Barcelona. The character in question, vocalist and songwriter of this project is the boy, Jairo. Among the suburban rumba, pop, English, Flamenkito, and even a patina of hip hop, Muchachito placed thirteen songs written by him grouped in the debut album "Let it go" and published this year and released by the label of Ojos de Brujo.

Muchachito long play in a band called Trimelón, which after 8 years Muchachito broke away and began to write new things alone until two years ago established the band that recorded this debut album "Let it go "Collaboration with in the production of Tomas Arroyo Dusminguet and Marc Parrot of Chaval de la Peca.

Despite working with Ojos de Brujo, Muchachito maintains a musical and aesthetic independence beyond the ideological coincidences.

The artwork is very original artwork with urban touches, catering, bars and night and flamenco.Reggae tango, rumba and rock sounds from Barcelona with the mixture of Muchachito Bombo ... A great allegory peace, coexistence and tolerance.