PREMIERE ONLINE CONCERT
CusCus Flamenco in Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar
Join us for an afternoon of flamenco and Arab-Andalusian fusion with the group CusCus Flamenco. Founded in 2016 by the Moroccan-born singer Hamid Ajbar, the project presents a musical encounter between the Arab-Andalusian and flamenco cultures. Although initially they were from different epochs, these traditions coincide in a time and place where both were marginalized. The group brings together the depth of flamenco singing and the lyrical poetry of Andalusian muwashahat and zejeles in a ‘deep’ fusion, exquisite in flavour, and with a fragrance as fresh as the breeze of the summer nights of the Alhambra.
https://www.musicalencounters.
This project is a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen and Manchester, and is funded by the European Research Council.
“Un flamenco tra Africa e Oriente, ecco la musica senza frontiere.” – Giornale de Vicenza
“Entregan seis números musicales en los que amalgaman con tal perfección las músicas y los textos de uno de otro lado que todo fluye de manera natural, como no puede ser de otra forma. Hamid en la voz árabe y Alberto Funes en el cante flamenco, más una decena de grandes instrumentistas. Cante jondo andalusí por rumbas, tangos y tanguillos y tangos de Graná,… Y para redondear un gran trabajo, la poesía de Federico García Lorca, la “Leyenda del Tiempo”… “El sueño va sobre el tiempo flotando como un velero nadie puede abrir semillas en el corazón del sueño”.” – Paco Valiente
http://www.lossonidosdelplanetaazul.com/disco/hamid-ajbar-aire-andalusi-flamenco/