Diego Carrasco Family Band Taqatac during IV Dutch Flamenco Biennale - Amsterdam, 26 January 2013

Singer-songwriter, improviser and composer Diego Carrasco is a regular at the festival. And for good reason: rhythm devil Carrasco (1954) is the absolute master of the compás (rhythms) of his native Jerez de la Frontera. His experiments, his elusive style and his original lyrics have made him a figurehead of the new flamenco, and he is like a guru to many young flamenco artists. Like Israel Galván has transformed flamenco dance, flamenco magician Carrasco is doing the same to music. Under his leadership a whole new generation of musicians is developing who, with tradition in their genes, bring flamenco to jazz, rock and pop. Critic Mingus B. Formentor wrote about Carrasco: 'He plays with music like a wise child: spontaneous and free, without losing track of the essence. He really has the gift of the gab.'
There is a good reason for a big party. Eight years after his last album 'Mi ADN Flamenco' (My Flamenco DNA) he has released a new CD: 'Hippytano', which the maestro will present with his Family Band. Of course, he pays tribute to 'Morao del Alma', his great friend and brother, guitarist Manuel Moreno Junquera (1956-2011), aka Morao, Moraíto Chico. An elegy 'por bulería', full of emotion and rhythm: 'Que solito me has dejao, Morao.'

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