Rycardo Moreno and Niño Josele: the language of the stars

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Turina Room, Friday, October 4, the eve of the closing of the 2024 Biennial. Rycardo Moreno and Niño Josele lead a lineup of new musicians flamencohighly trained and highly capable of composing their own pieces.

The concert begins Rycardo Moreno, magnificently accompanied by a string quartet (Faiçal Kourrich, violin, Samuel Cortes, violin, Abel Gonzalez, viola, and Batio Hangonyi, cello), the percussion of Poti Trujillo, the piano of Jose Heredia and the second guitar of Victor Franco, a companion who has become a regular in Rycardo's work.

It is the seguiriya that opens the performance in the sonanta of this young, highly trained Lebrija guitarist and composer, raised among local artists and their music. In his sensitivity, the need to break down what exists to fill it with new nuances that transform the known into something unexpected, full of flamenco tones but without losing its roots. His taste for jazz can be seen in his compositions., leaving in our ears that taste of racial music, of spontaneity and the constant search of a composer who unites music with his own spirituality.

Next, he offered us some joys that he dedicated to his uncle Tomás, his teacher in the family, even though he was Gerardo Nunez who discovered him and put him on the path of the great concert artists flamencoand the stages. Meanwhile, we feel the brushes and calls of a non-existent dance walking along the fingerboard of the instrument.

And the party continues with the bulerías, Diego del Gastor and Morón's touch fill the space of the theatre, in a braid of chords that mix and disappear and reappear, tangling in the musical staff of the piece. Among the audience, Rycardo's son cheers his father: ole lo gitano! And the father shivers under the boards of his guitar.

To close this first performance, an Andalusian song with clear arabesques and combinations of music from other places to transform it with his guitar into a pleasure. flamenco.

«In the third and final phase, we were able to enjoy the presence on stage of the two guitarists flamenco"Yes, gypsies, creative, concerned with giving it the stamp of their own personality. Each one has a personal way of mastering the fretboard, of playing a lick or enjoying a tremolo."

Child Josele He occupies the stage, alone, with his instrument as his only ally. Although the programme announced farruca and verdiales, this composer decides to play a taranta to begin his performance and transport us to the classic sounds of the flamenco guitar. His instrument also sounds like a back and forth, like a gypsy guitar, like a Child Michael and Paco de Lucía.

She then performs a soleá full of solemnity. For many people, she is the queen of the cast of palos flamencos. The pianist has joined the performance Jose HerediaNiño Josele's perfection in playing, together with his simple personality, give his music an even more melodic aura. Niño Josele has come to the Bienal and is aware of the responsibility that the event demands. Perhaps that is why he seems nervous and confesses: "Being in Seville is very special. It makes us musicians very nervous." And he remembers the tours with Paco, ten years at the side of the great maestro would awaken the greatest admiration and respect for the guitar.

And from soleá to bulería as a continuation of what could be understood as a gypsy classic. It sounds like Jerez, Moraito and Programming, and smiles enjoying the splashy notes of the bulería, it's time for a party, let's go, we're going!

In the third and final phase, we were able to enjoy the presence on stage of the two guitarists flamencos, gypsies, creative, concerned with giving it the stamp of their own personality. Each one has a personal way of mastering the fretboard, of playing a picado or enjoying a tremolo. An achievement that can be savoured when both play together, filling the compositions with greater colour.

In this last part they delight us with the love song, and are accompanied by the musicians José Heredia, on the piano, and Poti Trujillo, on percussion, generating that dialogue of improvisations that maestro Paco de Lucía liked so much, and which they continue until finishing by interpreting ziryab, paying tribute to the great genius.

The audience enjoyed the show and the request for an encore was not long in coming. The musicians treated us to a repertoire of the best-known songs by the maestro from Algeciras. What a pleasure to see and feel how the musicians enjoy speaking the language of the stars.

Credits

END OF THE YEAR, by Rycardo Moreno and Niño Josele
XXIII Biennial of Flamenco of Sevilla
Turina Space
4th October 2024
Main artists: Rycardo Moreno and Niño Josele
Second guitar: Victor Franco
Percussionist: Poti Trujillo
Piano: Jose Heredia
String Quartet: Faiçal Kourrich (violin), Samuel Cortés (violin), Abel González (viola) and Batio Hangonyi (cello)