#SessionLive with Rocio Marquez and Antoine Boyer & Samuelito

By: Laurence Aloir

Flamenco is at the center of this live session with the contemporary vision of the multi award-winning Rocio Marquez, here accompanied by the gypsy guitarist Canito. And the very young duo of guitarists Antoine Boyer & Samuelito, who takes flamenco on jazz and gypsy paths. The two groups offer you a common title at the end of the program.

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Rocio Marquez at RFI. RFI / Laurence Aloir

Rocio Marquez presents his new album Visto el Jueves
Rocio Marquez symbolizes contemporary flamenco at its highest level, as much by the transcendence of its song, the deep knowledge of the roots of its art, as by the permanent innovation that it brings to it. Its excellence was recognized from its beginnings in 2008 at the Festival international del Cante de las Minas in La Unión. She reaped a harvest of prizes, including the most prestigious of them, the Lampara Minera. She has since released four ambitious and successful albums Claridad (2013), El Niño (2015), Firmamento (2017) and Dialogos de Viejos y Nuevos Sones (2018) which have become milestones in recent flamenco history and have fueled the repertoires of its numerous international concerts.
This intense activity did not prevent him from carrying out, in parallel, artistic collaborations (National Orchestra of Île-de-France, Royal Philharmonic of Liège, Jorge Drexler, Rosa Torres-Pardo, Ensemble Aedes…) academic on vocal technique in flamenco or to engage in civil society.

Juan Antonio Suarez aka Cano at RFI. RFI / Laurence Aloir

New album: Visto en el Jueves
In this era of zapping, completely disposable and exacerbated social networks, Rocio Marquez offers an exercise in memory: listening to living and plural memories. And she does it by using, cutting and pasting, in one word by revisiting songs and cantes, palos flamencos and popular music linked by a diffuse link but at the same time crucial on a personal level: everything has been found at the historic Thursday flea market, El Jueves, on Feria Street in Seville.

Thus was born Visto en el Jueves , the fifth album by Rocio Marquez where she offers a critical reflection on the concept of author through a repertoire in which the distinction between flamenco and song blurs.

We thus find arrangements of titles of great figures of Spanish music as well as revisited flamenco palos. Bambino, Rocío Jurado, Paco Ibáñez, Concha Piquer, El Cabrero, Turronero, Pepe Marchena, José Menese and Manuel Vallejo intersect and intertwine in serranas, abandolaos, fandangos, malagueñas, rondñas, peteneras, bulerías, marianas, romances and rumbas.

After two albums without guitar ( Firmamento and Dialogos de Viejos y Nuevos Sones ) Rocio returns to this fundamental instrument of flamenco under the hand of Juan Antonio Suarez " Canito ".

Enveloped by the percussions of Agustín Diassera, they take up the challenge of expressing their expressive possibilities in a natural way, through a constant experiment of arrangements and melodies. In total, 14 tracks plus a bonus, the collaboration with Kiko Veneno, who sings with Rocío the famous Andaluces de Jaén by Miguel Hernández.

Antoine Boyer & Samuelito at RFI. RFI / Laurence Aloir

Imagine a young Django Reinhardt who would meet a young Paco de Lucia ... Facing Rocio Marquez who listened to them attentively, here are two young prodigies from the French scene: Antoine Boyer & Samuelito . They present their second album Sonambulo (Viavox).

Antoine Boyer is the one who specialized in gypsy jazz, Samuelito is entirely devoted to flamenco. We are witnessing a high-profile musical conversation despite their young age. Their second album Sonambulo was released at Viavox.

Pieces interpreted
El Ultimo Organito Live Rocio Marquez
Agua del cielo Live Antoine Boyer & Samuelito
Jaen's Andaluces from Rocio Marquez feat. Kiko Veneno
Guajira do Brasil Live Antoine Boyer & Samuelito
Trago Amargo Live Rocio Marquez
Entre Dos Aguas from Antoine Boyer & Samuelito's album, composition Paco de Lucia

End of broadcast gift, a common title between the two groups: Tangos (live Rocio Marquez & Canito, Antoine Boyer & Samuelito).

Musicien.ne.s
Rocio Marquez - Vocals
Juan Antonio Suarez aka Cano aka Canito - Flamenco guitar
Antoine Boyer - Guitar
Samuel Rouesnel alias Samuelito - Guitar
Eva Arizpe - Translator

Sound Laurie Plisson, Mathias Taylor

The albums of Antoine Boyer & Samuelito and Rocio Marquez. Viavox / Universal

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