Guitarist Cano, along with the group Ensemble Hispánico Numen (EHN), after six years of collaboration, have just brought out their new record “Flamenco Crossover”. All the music is composed by Cano, and the arrangements are by Rafael Fernández who plays viola for EHN.
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Cano and EHN call their music “crossover” because they fuse the most diverse musical disciplines (classic, flamenco, jazz, traditional, ethnic, contemporary) within the texture of chamber music. Their sound is eclectic and varied, thanks not only to the use of a wide variety of instruments, but also because the musicians are all composers. Ensemble Hispanico Numen and Cano have brought their music to numerous international festival such as the Festival for Culture and the Arts in 2004 in Manilla, Phillipines; Spring Early Music in Melbourne, Australia in 2006; and the twelfth Festival de Flamenco Pfefferberg in 2007 in Berlin among others. They have also toured the United States, Britain, Germany, Portugal, China, Australia, Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Egypt, Hong Kong, Macao, Brunei, Cameroon, Namibia, Lebanon, the Ivory Coast, Syria, Indonesia, Honduras and Jordan. All the members of EHN are regular collaborators with Lebrijano, Dorantes, Lole Montoya, Isabel Bayón and Andrés Marín among others. Although each musician dominates a specific discipline, Rafael Fernández comes from classical and rock music, Ignacio Gil from ancient and medieval music and Mangu Diaz from punk and Celtic folk music. Cano and EHN’s way of making music is based on complete freedom, flamenco compositions but not orthodox, or as Felix Grande says: “don’t look for virtuosity in this music (it’s there, but not shown off), nor orthodox fundamentalism (these people love the old flamenco, but do not give in to it), nor contemporary fundamentalism: what we have here is not that inconsequential break-away approach that tends to kneel at the altar of triumph, but devotion to music and the freedom to seek and offer what it has to offer in the way of fraternity and mystery”.
This is the second recording for Juan Antonio Suárez “Cano” after the success of “Son de Ayer” recorded in 2008 and which received many awards including the DeFlamenco Prize for Best Flamenco Record of 2008 as determined by the popular vote collected each year by the digital magazine. |
