Archive for the ‘Flamenco’ Category
Eli Ayala – Solea
Vicente Amigo
Ciudad de las Ideas
Ciudad de las puteas, donde me las tiro en las noches
y donde se la entierro en silencio a los monjes
Ciudad de las puteas, no me baño ni en la tarde
y me trago y empacho demasiado con tus detalles
Si es q las palabras se las lleva tu mare
que las mias se las lleve la puta de tu mare
La tarde es Caramelo (Alegrías)
Cerca del rio hay un sendero,
Donde la tarde es caramelo.
Cerca del rio yo me pierdo,
Me encontre donde me encuentre con tus besos.
Near the river there’s a path,
Where the sunset is caramel.
Near the river I loose myself,
I”ll find myself where I find me among your kisses.
Tomatito and Potito
Flamenco on Judaism
Ethan Margolis – Leading Guiatarist
Ethan Margolis’s story, is truly an inspiring story. At the age of seventeen her fell in love with the Spanish culture and held his first guitar. It was a complete turn of interest, for he was into Rock ‘n Roll, ironically enough, today he is one of the leading guitarists in the Flamenco world.
Today, Margolis is part of a flamenco group called “Arte y Pureza”. A group devoted specifically to the traditional, pure flamenco from the Gypsy neighbohoods of Andalusia. Margolis talks of how managing a group with pure Spanish people is difficult because they don’t perfer to take orders from a person who isn’t of Gypsy blood. But there is a connection between the Jews and Spain… in his case, it is connected with the Jewish ancestors that were executed from Spain in 1492, and from there grew to become gypsies themselves.
There are still similarities between flamenco song and synagogue chant, and Margolis sees a good deal of empathy between Gypsies and Jews, who find common ground in a shared history of persecution. “In my experience, a large proportion of the flamenco following outside of Spain is Jewish,” he remarked. His Gypsy colleagues, meanwhile, “feel a very deep understanding for the plight of the Jews.”
Yasmin Levy – Ladino Flamenco Singer
Yasmin Levy – Israeli Ladino Singer. In her very strong and deep singing, she brings you through a journey of the Ladino/Judeo Spanish Music, as she mixes it with Andalusian Flamenco.
Yasmin Levy was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1975. Her father was singer himself. He died when she was one years old. She says that she learns who her father was through his music, and today she continues the search of her father through the Ladino/Judeo Spanish history. Her father recorded Ladino music before it would become extinct. Today Levy has allowed Ladino music to become greatly known as well as an International success. 
Levy was featured in the Israeli Film “Ladino, 500 years young”. In this film you learn of her rising to her great success and the history of the Spanish Jews that were executed from Spain in 1492. The exile of the Jews preserved the Ladino Language in certain places where they established a community. This language made its way through Greece, Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and North Africa. And today, thanks to Yasmin, Ladino is making its way back again.
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I guess you can say I’m a little materialistic ;)
My new Menkes Flamenco Shoes…
In flamenco, everything has already been dicovered
I have always said that in flamenco, everything has already been discovered. The greatest possible innovation is to be oneself, to make it as personal as possible”. -Eva Yerbabuena
