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What is expected of a Flamenco artist, abroad, is to respond to the canons of the genre, just like they have been established for decades. For this reason, it is bewildering approaching someone like Niño de Elche, who from his heterodoxy and defiance has blasted this conservative and so many times picturesque conception of a practice that he claims as subversive and experimental. So far as to embrace the electronic music, the noise and, in a searched way, the sound art in general that begins with the precursor Val del Omar and continues in Sónar or the Avignon Festival. This interview, to one of the new faces of We are Europe, comes from the first lockdown during spring 2020 and maintains all its topicality and opportunity, despite the lockdown, curfews and festivals suspension.
Author: Vincenç Batalla
Photo credit: Manuel León, Celia Macías
Our two previous meetings, in 2015 and 2017, took place face-to-face at the Avignon Festival; at Sónar electronic music festival, where a Flamenco who has just astounded with his unusual proposal was not necessarily expected. With Grenadian parents, he takes his artistic name from Alicante, h...
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