Morente & Barcelona It is the opportunity to get to know the artistic personality of Enrique Morente, vindicating their trajectory and showing how the neighborhood movements made up mostly of Andalusian and Extremaduran immigrants in Barcelona were the architects of that avant-garde culture that would spread from the Ciutat Condal to the rest of Spain throughout the 60s and 70s. Morente & Barcelona It leads us through the peripheral and working-class neighborhoods of the capital of Catalonia, which became the ideal setting for the singer to have the opportunity to express his artistic concerns with absolute freedom, thus giving free rein to a heterodoxy hitherto unknown in the world. flamenco and serve as a starting point for both Enrique Morente himself and colleagues such as José Monge Cruz Camarón de la Isla o Juan Peña The Lebrijan, as well as for young people of the later generation such as Archangel, Poveda, Rocío Márquez o david lakes, until reaching the present day with names like the Tremendita, Cristian de Moret or groups like Derby Motoreta Burrito Kachimba, Save Doñana y Caliphate ¾ who today continue to search for new paths and languages for the flamenco and for the vanguard.
For a time, the city of Barcelona became the place where Enrique Morente could put into practice his most daring projects, invent adventures alongside musicians of other styles, experiment with jazz and freely develop his own artistic personality, until he became one of the most unique artists, with the career and one of the most interesting and rich discographies in the history of jazz. flamenco contemporary.
The creation of the first peña flamenca of Spain dedicated to his figure was born in 1970 in the neighborhood of Verdum (Nou Barris, Barcelona)Since then, Morente began visiting the area, sharing the stage with local residents who were demanding a dignified life, demanding services and resources while self-managing their needs and generating culture. His events always went beyond the simple recital. He participated in the seminar in Begur organized by the Music Workshop, where Morente and the teacher could meet You knowFrom whose meeting arose their joint performance at the festival BarceWomad and the recording of the legendary album New York-Granada.
«'Morente & Barcelona' takes us through the peripheral and working-class neighborhoods of the capital of Catalonia, which became the ideal setting for the singer to have the opportunity to express his artistic concerns with absolute freedom, thus giving free rein to a heterodoxy hitherto unknown in the world. flamenco»
Enrique Morente discovered a territory fertile for experimentation, to share with emerging artists, natives of Catalonia, such as Mayte Martín, Miguel Poveda, Juan Gómez Chicuelo or Ginesa Ortega, and found in the Taller de Músics a laboratory where he could put into practice encounters with jazz alongside Max Roach, Pat Metheny or Chano Domínguez.
Within the independent scene he worked with the New Yorkers Sonic Youth within the framework of the festival Primavera Sound, and its relationship with Leonard Cohen would result in Omega, a cult album recorded with fellow Granadans Nick lizard, which also began in Barcelona. Even so, whenever Enrique Morente has been mentioned, these events have tended to be ignored and silenced. As a result, the images of his exploits in Barcelona have been forgotten by "official" history.
This documentary, which will be presented on Wednesday, May 14 at 21 p.m. in the Sala el Cachorro, Calle Procurador, 19 in Triana (Seville), features the voices of Lluís Cabrera –founder of the Taller de Musics de Barcelona– and Fernando Gonzalez-Caballos –anthropologist, journalist, and cultural manager–. A documentary directed by the music journalist Jordi Turtos and produced by Elizabeth, which vindicates the relationships and ties thanks to which the Granada singer freed himself and broke the ties imposed by orthodoxy. With Barcelona as a backdrop, which was, and still is, a starting and finishing point for many artistic adventures, among which has always been the flamenco.
In addition to the May 14th in Triana, the documentary Morente & Barcelona It will be presented on the 15th in Córdoba, on the 16th in Huelva and on the 17th in Marinaleda within the Fiebre del festival Cante.
