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Ateneu de Cerdanyola del Vallès 2007

foto de Gemma Silvestre

PRESS

Suk - El Torta - Hiniesta Cortés - Rumba Amazigha
May 23, Barcelona CCCB.

Barcelona is polyhedral, made up of a multitude of environments and built on the basis of very different cultural essences. In yesterday's session at the CCCB we found many of these characteristics that make a city great. The music becomes that thick sauce that binds together the different aesthetic ingredients hidden behind the stones and asphalt of an ancient city: from the most cerebral experimentation to the most rancid flamenco singing. Everything fits and everything is enjoyed in Barcelona.

As usual, the day began and ended in the Hall of the CCCB with two proposals that share the pleasure of mixing the taste for the heterogeneous. The first one was SUK, a collective whose formula involves fusing Persian music with flamenco and electronic sounds, always from an experimental point of view. In this sense, flamenco music appears here not as a protagonist but as one more expressive ingredient and was represented by the singer Joaquín Gómez “Duende”. Its members come from World Music and in a way, their work is reminiscent of those Smash experiments in the late sixties and early seventies, with those elements between orientalists and psychedelics, where dense and sometimes even disturbing sound universes are created. . Tradition, avant-garde and orientality. Those three words could define the interesting work of this group that, of course, don't expect to hear it at the top 40, nor do they need to.