EL ENTRI PRESENTA LA ACADEMIA DE CAÑO ROTO

 

The scene in the Caño Roto neighbourhood has precursors such as Las Grecas with their fusion of flamenco and rock, or Los Chichos who, with their suburban rumba, have been triumphing for a couple of years. Other people came from there such as El Luís who fused flamenco with soul, or Manzanita with his solo career.

Caño Roto is one of the cradles of flamenco guitar in Madrid. This humble area of Madrid is comparable in flamenco importance and category with the legendary neighbourhoods of Santiago, Sacromonte or Triana, to name just three examples of obvious flamenco tradition that are found in Andalusia. What began as being a blocked-in area within the enormous neighbourhood of Carabanchel has today become an unavoidable reference for any self-respecting flamenco artist. A true school of singing, dancing and, above all else, guitar playing. So much so that there is no figure in the guitar world who doesn’t know the methods of the great maestros of Caño Roto. Learned musicians who ensure that each and every one who passes through here transforms their guitar not into a simple means of expression but into an end in itself. A way of life.
And one of those wise maestros is none other than Aquilino Jiménez “El Entri”, the soul of a flamenco guitar academy that bears the name of the neighbourhood. After teaching guitar for 12 years in Amor de Dios, last year he opened his own school in Caño Roto along with his son Jesús de Rosario, a disciple of the great maestro who now, like his father, is passing on his knowledge to the pupils in the academy.

Today Suma Flamenca pays tribute to the school and the neighbourhood, to the neighbourhood and the school. To the neighbourhood, by having some of the young flamenco figures who were forged there come up on stage, and to the school because through a sample of the work done by the pupils in the academy, the public can learn the secrets of Caño Roto for making its pupils great flamenco artists.