Vince Mendoza & The Metropole Orchestra - El viento - The García Lorca Project (2009)

El Viento - The García Lorca Project makes reference to all of those antecedent projects. Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orchestra fuse the different strands of development and shed a new light on them. Twelve pieces have been recorded in cooperation with guest soloists, merging Lorca’s lyric, flamenco and orchestral jazz in the most unique way. El Viento includes revisions of four folk songs which Lorca himself had recorded, and is augmented with three Lorca adaptations of Ricardo Pachón as well as the musical versions of two poems set to music by Flamenco Nuevo pioneer José Ortega Heredia 'Manzanita' ("Ángeles Negros") and Niko Langenhuijsen (the triptych "Historietas del Viento"). The folk song “La Tarara”, which had been interpreted by Camarón de la Isla in 1979, is also part of the record.

Four of the pieces have been arranged by Vince Mendoza himself for El Viento: "La Canción del Mariquita" by Ricardo Pachón, "Ángeles Negros" by 'Manzanita' and the two folk songs "La Tarara" and "Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII". In unison with the Metropole Orchestra Mendoza has once again created an outstanding audio document: El Viento - The García Lorca Project is a declaration of love to flamenco, yet another proof that jazz as a universal language is beyond all bounds, and it is, above all, a homage to one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.





Tracks:

01. La Canción del Mariquita - 04:16 (Pachón, Ricardo)
02. Historietas del Viento I: El Viento - 04:40 (Langenhuijsen, Niko)
03. Historietas del Viento II: Viento Estancado - 05:19 (Langenhuijsen, Niko)
04. Historietas del Viento III: La Brisa - 06:05 (Langenhuijsen, Niko)
05. La Tarara - 08:36 (traditional)
06. De Los Cuatros Muleros - 06:23 (traditional)
07. Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII - 03:44 (traditional)
08. La Nana del Caballo Grande - 06:10 (Pachón, Ricardo)
09. Los Peregrinitos - 03:33 (traditional)
10. Angeles Negros - 05:27 (Heredia, Ortega)
11. Los Mozos De Monleón - 09:22 (traditional)
12. La Leyenda del Tiempo - 06:59 (Pachón, Ricardo)




Personnel:

The Metropole Orchestra
Conductor: Vince Mendoza

Soloists:
Rafael de Utrera: vocals
Eva de Dios: vocals
Daniel Méndez: guitar
Udo Demandt: cajón
Arturo Ramón: palmas
Daniel Navarro: dancing

Choir:
Jennifer Barnes
Cindy Bourquin
Elin Carlson