MUDEJAR SCENT

This show explores the connection between Spanish music at the end of the medieval period and current-day flamenco. Axivil finds this connection in the fusion that took place on the peninsula between Mudejar and Christian music from the days of Al-Andalus up to the expulsion of the Moors. Axivil's director, Felipe Sánchez Mascuñano, offers a hypothesis of what this 15th and 16th Century fusion between Andalusi music and Christian scores may have sounded like.

Rhythm and song, the extraordinary dialogue between the vocals and the Andalusi lute, in and of themselves evoke the flamenco universe. Romance literature was omnipresent in Spain during that period and was adopted by gypsy communities from the start. The genre is intimately linked to the origins of cante (flamenco singing).

The best instrumentalists from different musical backgrounds have joined together to work on this bold project, because duende ("spirit") is beyond time periods: it is pure art.