Guitar and Music:
Jesús Torres
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
2. Mármol de espuma
(Malagueña con Jabera)
Guitar, Music and Lyrics: Jesús
Torres
Cante: Miguel Poveda
Cello: José Luis López
Contrabass: Luis Escribano
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Bouzouki: Amir John Haddad
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
String arrangements: Pablo Suárez
3. Tarantango
(Taranta)
Guitar and Music: Jesús Torres
Bandoneon: Jorge Lema
Contrabass: Luis Escribano
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
4. Rincón de los perdíos
(Soleá por Bulería)
Guitar and Lyrics: Jesús Torres
Cante: Encarna Anillo
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
5. Viento del Norte
(Fantasy)
Guitar: Jesús
Torres
6. Sonsonío
(Bulería)
Guitar and Lyrics: Jesús Torres
Cante: Manuel Gago
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Choruses: Ana Mari González, Carmen Amaya
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
7. Pasaje de Valvanera
(Zapateao)
Guitar: Jesús Torres
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
8. Alhama
(Lullaby... to my mother)
Guitar: Jesús Torres
Piano: Pablo Suárez
Tambourine: Antonio Coronel
‘Viento del Norte’ by guitarist
Jesús Torres is the fruit of a solid career in accompaniment
and composing for bailaores such as Antonio Gades, Mario
Maya, Isabel Bayón and Rafaela Carrasco. The music
which he has created along the way, inspired by the images
and dynamics of flamenco dancing, has evolved and transformed
to shape up this album with which he débuts ‘up
front’. The Ecijan tocaor reveals himself as a musician
who contributes sensitivity, subtlety, virtuosity and universality
to flamenco guitar.
On this record he has collaborations by
cantaores Miguel Poveda, Encarna Anillo and Manuel Gago,
percussionist Antonio Coronel, pianist Pablo Suárez
and bandoneon player Jorge Lema, among other musicians.
As flamencologist José Manuel Gamboa affirms, ‘Viento
del Norte’ is “a surprise concealed and, until
now, displayed in bits at the back of the stage, behind
the batas de cola. Jesús Torres’s flamenco
guitar is presented at a bright dawn full of harmonies and
lively melodies on underground strings”.
Jesús
Torres (Barakaldo, 1965) is a recognized flamenco guitarist
specializing in accompaniment and composing for baile. The
Ecijan musician started off in genres such as classical music
and rock, until he moves to Madrid to learn accompaniment
for flamenco dancing by the hand of maestros such as Manolete
and Merche Esmeralda. In 1992 he begins his professional career
in flamenco, taking part in the tours of María Rosa
and José Greco, at the same time as he was gaining
experience at tablaos. After participating in festivals such
as Seville’s Bienal, he joins the Compañía
Andaluza de Danza (Andalusian Dance Company) as lead guitarist
in 1994. Two years later, he becomes a member of the Antonio
Gades Company, playing in ‘Carmen’ and ‘Fuenteovejuna’.
In the following seasons, he shares his music with Miguel
Poveda, Isabel Bayón, Israel Galván, Mario Maya,
Belén Maya, José Mercé, Chano Lobato...
at different festivals and stages on the world stage circuit,
including the Teatro Real in Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New
York. Beginning with Festival de Jerez 2002, he collaborates
with the Rafaela Carrasco Company as a performer and composer.
The 2006/2007 season is key, since besides working in shows
like ‘El eterno retorno’ by Rocío Molina,
composing ‘La puerta abierta’ by Isabel Bayón
and playing at the City Center in New York with Rafaela Carrasco,
he records his first solo album, ‘Viento del Norte’.
EL PAÍS June 27th 2008 Review of Jesús Torres' 'Viento del Norte'
de Jesús Torres published in the
supplement EP3 by Ángel Álvarez Caballero. See full
page
EL PAÍS May 31st 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s 'Viento del
Norte', by Fermín Lobatón
"Supone una fresca y estimulante aportación
al rico panorama de la guitarra solista de nuestros días
(...). Sus renovadas armonías compiten con el alto
contenido melódico que reina en todo el disco" See
full page
RNE. RADIO CLÁSICA May 17th, 2008
Interview with Jesús Torres about 'Viento del Norte'.
José María Velázquez-Gaztelu's program
'Nuestro Flamenco' (Radio Clásica, RNE)
ALMA 100 nº 76 April-May 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s 'Viento del
Norte', by Javier Primo
"...They’re scores sweet to the ear, originally
intended to be danced, which conceal details of great interest..." See
full page
DIARIO DE SEVILLA April 16th, 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s ‘Viento
del Norte’
“A work in which contention and intimacy have priority,
despite the epic poetry por bulerías which opens
the album, dedicated in memory of his father. This is an
exquisite record with contained guitar playing which hardly
dares to sound above the percussion or vocals. (...) Torres
furiously shows that, like everyone, his is a heart that
suffers and enjoys”. See
full page
FLAMENCO-WORLD.COM March 2008
“I think ignorance causes a lot of boldness in flamenco
nowadays”
Interview with Jesús Torres, by Silvia Calado See
full page
DIARIO DE JEREZ February 27th, 2008 The most complete youths in the world
Review of the concert ‘Flamenco World Music’,
by David Fernández See full
page
