These days flamenco lament their condition deepens, this nuance torn that kinship with styles like blues and the neighbor remote fado. There had been ten days since the death of Xabier Lete, defender of Basque culture in times Ez Dok Amairu movement (along with fellow colleagues as Lourdes Iriondo and Mikel Laboa and Benito Lertxundi), when the news yesterday certifying death Enrique Morente, a giant being. Morente was a singer that seems unique, capable of combining respect for tradition, attachment to the root, with the dissent and daring that led him to find shelter in the distortion of the electric guitar of his countrymen Nick Lizard , to adapt to Leonard Cohen's poems give voice to another genius: Pablo Picasso. Not to give up, to cry out against the atrocities committed by humans, and to open its last recording to date, Pablo de Málaga (premiered at the Jai-Alai fronton in Gernika), with a theme entitled Guern-Iraq, pun that seeks to merge our Guernica punished and Iraq, two symbols of stupidity and irrationality of war.
Morente was a role model, shows that the natural defense of tradition should not be confused with immobility, with closure, it is compatible with curiosity, inquiry, openness, innovation, art.
Lete It was and has been Morente. Before them it was time to José Saramago, Miguel Delibes, Luis García Berlanga ... It seems that culture with a capital goes a slump. There remains the feeling that they're leaving the best. And the question of whether there will be spare; if not we will be running alone, without references, but is his legacy, his songs, writings, images, his work, traditional comfort when tragedy strikes the world of creation.
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