FLAMENCO EN LA FRONTERA
This is the last of the shows that make up Flamenco en la frontera. A soloist, bass player, winner of the 2010 Giraldillo de Oro for Best Musical Performance at Seville’s flamenco Biennial. Our art is a great embryo where many world musicians take their references, develop and grow in stature. This is the proof. The French musician Renaud García-Fons is an extraordinary creator and interpreter who has demonstrated his knowledge on his journey with flamenco.

LA LÍNEA DEL SUR

As is happening with ever increasing frequency, flamenco corrupts the most varied musical styles and the most brilliant composers. That is the case with Renaud García-Fons, considered a genius, a virtuoso of the five string double bass, who, with one of his latest works, La línea del Sur, gets close to his roots and fuses Spanish and French music. The sounds of flamenco are interwoven with oriental airs and traces of folk roots from various cultures to submerge us in a world of sounds of a very rich expression and dazzling impact. Technique and beauty are two inseparable factors in this production by the French genius.

La línea del Sur is a virtual journey which shows us the music of the South, featuring flamenco often accompanied by the melancholy of tango. For this, the fundamental elements, apart from Renaud’s double bass, are David Venitucci’s accordeon and the flamenco guitar of Antonio Ruíz “Kiko”, which do a perfect job, combining the high sound of the accordion and the deep sound of the bass. The percussion, which isn’t excessive but simple and tasteful, completes this quartet which transports us to the particular compositive world of Renaud García-Fons, a world in which improvisation is the connecting thread.

Nurtured by influences from the Mediterranean and South America, each composition finds its singularity within the same musical colour, the yellow colour of the sun, at times brilliant and at other times veiled by melancholy. La línea del Sur is a powerfully evocative disc which leaves room for images of a world in perpetual motion.