Diego El Cigala στην ίδια σκηνή με τον Salif Keita

Diego el Cigala & Salif Keita, Auditorio de la Cartuja, Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2006

Ο Σεπτέμβρης έκλεισε υπέροχα στην Sevilla με τον Diego el Cigala και τον Salif Keita να τραγουδούν τον πόνο τους στο Auditorio de la Cartuja, στα πλαίσια της Bienal de Flamenco.

Ο κόσμος γέμισε ασφυκτικά τον χώρο, δείχνοντας την αγάπη του όχι μόνο στο flamenco και στον Salif αλλά -κυρίως- στον Dieguito, ο οποίος τραβά το κοινό σαν μαγνήτης και στις εμφανίσεις του πλέον χτυπά "ρεκόρ" συμμετοχής από το κοινό. Αν κρίνω από πρόσφατη εμπειρία μου σε συναυλία του, δεν απορώ καθόλου πως "πουλά" σαν ζεστό ψωμί, χωρίς να χρειάζεται να σέρνει το φολκλόρ και τον Χολλυγουντιανό αέρα που έχουν τόση πέραση σήμερα και που δυστυχώς κυρίως τέτοιου είδους θεάματα παρακολουθούμε στην Ελλάδα.

Ακολουθεί σχόλιο για την συναυλία από το http://www.flamenco-world.com/magazine.

Around five thousand people gathered at the Auditorio de la Cartuja, answering flamenco’s call. And that’s news. There are few flamencos nowadays capable of such a large draw. Diego el Cigala, following his world tour with ‘Lágrimas negras’, is one of them. Never before had he been to Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco, sometimes so engrossed in what’s from here. Moreover, he might be the only one at this point in time able to bring together such a varied audience, and especially, the younger crowd. Hardly had Diego del Morao begun to warm up his guitar and Sabú to caress the box drum por bulerías, when a large section of the audience took up the floor between the stage and the bleachers. And that, for flamenco, is news.

Whatever the ambience might have been, the Madrilenian cantaor was sure that he was going to start in jondo terrain. And he kicked things off por tonás and seguiriyas, with traditional coplas. Seated on his bar stool, wearing an elegant black suit, he received the first ovation from the audience. Por soleá, he then relied on his latest album, ‘Picasso en mis ojos’, though he ended up preferring long-time lyrics, which are as smooth as silk: “I was a stone and I lost my balance and I was cast into the sea and after so long, I found my balance again”. With the introductions out of the way, he gave thanks “to this blessed land of so much art and so much duende”. And then with Yelsy Heredia on contrabass and Yumitus on piano, he went back over his last few albums: from ‘La paloma’ to ‘La bien pagá’, from cantes de levante to ‘Chanelando’, from the Cuban rumba to, once again, the Spanish copla. Perfect fellowship between the quartet, always inspirational for the cantaor, who is obsessed with good music. And the crowd, totally involved, chorusing and clapping when it was fitting.

Following the encore por bulerías, it was time for the climax of the performance.

With a smile from ear to ear and then some, he invited the great African music maestro Salif Keita up on stage. They’d hardly known each other for a day, enough time for both of them to try out a love song by the African which El Cigala had previously listened to and chosen to fit into flamenco tangos. The two of them were seated facing the audience, with the cantaor’s musicians and the two vocalists of the African band, Salif Keita dressed in white, with his guitar... and the magic started to flow. The two voices took turns, yielded to one another, embellished each other. And the brotherly union flowed naturally. And the thing is that, as the Madrilenian artist remarked, both of them make “music of the land, of the people”. Flamenco welcomed popular African music to its main festival. And there was Salif Keita with the audience on its feet, rock-style, shaking up Seville with his concert ‘M’Bemba’ until three o’clock in the morning. And we just have to hope that Salif Keita’s collaboration with flamenco, with Diego el Cigala, goes further, much further.

Ακούμε από το τελευταίο cd του Diego "Picasso en mis ojos" την bulería Luna De Plata.

Σχόλιο για την συναυλία από το Diario de Sevilla