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Morente Live Passion Week

Surely, the first time I met really exposed to the immense talent of Enrique Morente should be back in 1995, when collaborating in that radio program so beautiful and fun as dangerous to the integrity of their (ir) responsible called Vatican 2 , which was broadcast on Radio Vallekas . The tune was the Kyrie of his startling Flemish Mass, and week after week the chill was almost assured to listen. Not much later came to these ears the immeasurable Omega, and then ... everything else. As a torrent.

Morente was, is, is one of the capital of flamenco voices. Voice broadly. Much more than a vocal quality beyond doubt, having been able to approach (and mix it with) so many things without detracting neither one nor the other, following a relentless search instinct. And thrilling and strangers on the road. Something extremely difficult to get and extremely rare to see in any musical genre.

(Photo by Alfredo Arias)

But Enrique had to see it on stage. And if possible, in many different sauces. I was lucky enough to do in a studio in Madrid, in the dress rehearsal of the late African project Cai Cuba, in the Patio de Conde Duque Barracks presenting The small clock with his hijísima Estrella in Plaza Mayor Chinchón of a classic and beautiful spectacle, in the Primavera Sound alongside Nick Lizard, making Omega and other marvelous things in Reina Sofia Museum Auditorium premiering his latest and almost no studio album, Pablo de Málaga , improvising with Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley in the Art Center of Dos de Mayo Móstoles .. .

(Photo DJFlow)

What I could not see at the time, by an unfortunate and absurd domestic dispute, was their way through the program missed TVE Seventh Cavalry . Something I'll regret forever. Fortunately, we have the Youtube to enjoy at least a few minutes Heron . And, of course, we are left to enjoy his enormous work for years and years. Thank you and goodbye, Morente. We're not sad, because there is much that we let ...