about Flamenco

Flamenco

is known most widely only as a dance. However, in Spain, Flamenco music takes the form of song and guitar as well as dance.  As solo guitar music, Flamenco has existed for only the last 70 years, having taken its inspiration from the rediscovery of the classical guitar in the early years of the last century.
Flamenco itself has its origin in Southern Spain. Gitanos (“gypsies“)  who lived in Andalusia combined their traditional songs and rhythms with those of the early Mozarabic cultures, giving birth over the generations to a distinctly beautiful and vivacious musical form.
Flamenco today is influenced by Arabic, Latin American, and classical music, and most recently by Jazz as well.

It is one of the centuries-old musical forms whose inherent culture is part traditional and always part contemporary.

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Flamenco knows death, knows blood, knows love – it has no formula.
It exists as an art of clear symbols of the eternal mystery.
It does not act out tragedy – it is tragedy.
It makes no poetry – it is poetry.
It does not need exuberance to express itself
                                         – it is content to cry out!

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„We should always recognize that the beauty of Spain is not serene, is not soft, not restful – it is ardent, burning, excessive, sometimes unpredictable, a beauty which blinded by its own splendor `knocks its head against a wall`.“
                                                                                                                                      Frederico Garcia Lorca

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„To be Flamenco is to have another skin, other passions, other desires. It is a different way of seeing the world, with music in
one´s nerves, a fierce pride, happiness mingled with tears; it is loathing of routine and sameness; it is to be intoxicated in song, wine and kisses; it is a translation of life into an art of caprices and of freedom.“
                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                      Tomas Borras