Three Notes to Say I Love You (Tres Notas Para Decir Te Quiero), 4:49 (excerpt)
Corazones Diferentes, 4:33 (excerpt)
Jardín, 4:32 (excerpt)
Night in Marrakesh, 6:08 (excerpt)
Tiata Mia, 5:58 (excerpt)
Rastro Viejo (Tangos), 2:51 (excerpt)
Imaginary Traveler, 6:07 (excerpt)
A Mi Hermano, 4:04 (excerpt)
Soraima (Rumba), 4:30 (excerpt)
Sombra del Paraiso, 6:31 (excerpt)
RELEASE NOTES
With its magical combination of delicate guitar figures, throaty vocals, and superbly intricate rhythms communicated in a flurry of hand claps and foot taps, flamenco is the fiery sound that defines Spain for music lovers everywhere.
Windham Hill Records celebrates the modern legacy of the centuries old style with Flamenco – A Windham Hill Guitar Collection, a compilation featuring six popular genre classics from the last decade and four new tracks by Adam Del Monte and popular new age artist Sean Harkness. The recording— which brings together some of Spain’s most celebrated artists with noted musicians from around the globe—was compiled by Dawn Atkinson, with individual songs helmed by longtime label artist and producer Brian Keane and others.
Flamenco’s new material includes “Night In Marrakesh,” a mystical and exotic duet by Del Monte and world renowned Turkish ney flute and oud master Faruk Tekbilek; Del Monte’s “Sombra Del Paraiso”; and Harkness’ “A Mi Hermano” and “Corazones Diferentes.” Tekbilek also appears with Brian Keane on the wildly percussive, Middle Eastern flavored “”Imaginary Traveler,” which first appeared on the Keane-Tekbilek collaboration album Beyond the Sky in 1992. Tekbilek also worked with Keane on the soundtrack to Suleyman The Magnificent and Firedance.
Flamenco kicks off with the jazz influenced “Tres Notas Para Decir Te Quiero” (translated as: “Three Notes to Say I Love You,” from City of Ideas (Ciudad de las Ideas), the new Windham Hill album by Vicente Amigo, celebrated as one of the new stars of flamenco for the twenty first century. Jorge Strunz and Ardeshir Farah (from Costa Rica and Iran, respectively) celebrate a fusion of East and West on “Jardin,” which first appeared on Strunz & Farah’s 1995 recording Heat of the Sun.
Jose Antonio Rodriguez—who was teaching at Cordoba’s conservatory by the time he was twenty years old—offers the lyrical “Tiata Mia,” from his album Manhattan de la Frontera. Rising genre stars and young innovators Ni?o Josele and Javier Limón mix in elements of jazz and rock with traditional flamenco to spice their tunes “Rastro Viejo (Tangos)” and “Soraima (Rumba),” both from the release El Sorbo.
