November 2003 BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival

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BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival ENCORE Is sponsored by: Altria 2003 ~ext Wa')Le FesfuLaJ,-----

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer

presents Omega Enrique Morente Lagartija Nick

Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: Nov 5, 7 & 8, 2003 at 7:30pm 1 hour and 30 minutes with Performers no intermission Enrique Morente si nger Nino Josele guitar Bandolero percussion Angel Gabarre vocals and clapping Rafael Jimenez "Falo" vocals and clapping Pedro Gabarre dancer

Lagartija Nick Antonio Arias bass and vocals Lorena Enjuto bass David Fernandez dru ms Jesus Requeno guitar

Presented in association with the Instituto Cervantes Sponsored by Consejerfa de Cultura, Junta de Andalucfa

U.S. Tour Produced by Miguel Marin Productions

BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Bloomberg is the presenting sponsor for Omega.

The opening night reception for Omega is sponsored by Suba Restaurant. I. ErogramL------.;,

Part one Omega represents a path from traditional (heard in the first part) into a different musical style, based on Poeta en Nueva York by Federico Garda Lorca (heard in the second part), Rueda de bulerias Alegrias Tangos Cabales Taranta del reloj Canciones de romeria

Enrique Morente singer Nino Josele guitar Bandolero percussion Angel Gabarre vocals and clapping Rafael Jimenez "Falo" vocals and clapping Pedro Gabarre dancer

Technicians Juan Carlos Menor, Arturo Ignacio Fernandez, Oscar Espfn Road Managers Angel Garcia-Hidalgo, Francisco Manas Erogram'---- _

Part two "EI Pastor Bobo" Lyrics: Federico Garcia Lorca; music: Juan Antonio Salazar

1I0mega" Lyrics: Federico Garda Lorca; music: Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick

"Aleluya" (lIHallelujah no. 2") Lyrics: (adaptation by Enrique Morente and Alberto Manzano); music: Leonard Cohen

"Manhattan" ("First We Take Manhattan") Lyrics: Leonard Cohen (adaptation by Enrique Morente and Alberto Manzano); music: Leonard Cohen

"La Au rora de Nueva York" Lyrics: Federico Garda Lorca; music:

"VueIta de Paseo" Lyrics: Federico Garcia Lorca; music: Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick

lICi udad si n Suerio" Lyrics: Federico Garda Lorca; music: Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick

The musicians listed above are joined by:

Lagartija Nick Antonio Arias bass and voca Is Lorena Enjuto bass David Fernandez drums Jesus Requeno guitar Interview with Leonard Cohen flamenco, taking a few lessons from somebody shortly thereafter. (Excerpt) KCRW-FM, Los Angeles Leonard: There was a young man in the park February 18, 1997 behind my mother's house. A dark young man, very handsome, played flamenco guitar. I Interviewed by Ch ris Doritos asked him if he would give me a few lessons. Transcription by Roxanna Bahro He did. He gave me three or four lessons. On From www.leonardcohenfiles.com/kcrw.htmI the basis of those lessons I wrote most of my You can hear the complete interview in RealAudio songs. He showed me some changes with the (41:40 min) at Morning Becomes Eclectic guitar that was very very important to me. He http://www. kcrw. orw didn't turn up for the final lesson, and I phoned his boarding house, they told he'd committed Chris: That's from the Cohen Live album suicide. I don't know whether that was because released by Columbia Records in 1994. It's a of the progress with his student; or I think recording of the 1988 Austin City Limits of perhaps he had other issues. "Hallelujah." Leonard is with us, Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW. It makes a lot of Chris: Well, you've had a fondness for flamenco sense, when I got this flamenco tribute album, ever since I would think. it's not just your work but also along side your work the writings of Federico Garda Lorca. Leonard: I love the music.

Leonard: It's a kind of tribute album to Lorca Chris: When you heard this album by Morente and Cohen. It's very good com pa ny. what were your feelings?

Chris: You've been a fan of Lorca's since 1949 Leonard: I thought I'd better get a hold of Chris I understand. Doritis. I really want people to hear this and nobody is going to hear it. I think it is music Leonard: I stumbled on a book of his in a and delivery and confidence that is very rare. second hand book store when I was a kid, maybe fifteen or sixteen, and I found some­ Chris: Do you know anything about this guy thing in there that just resonated in my own Morente? heart. It was a universe that I already inhabited, so I claimed him as my brother. In fact I named Leonard: I know that he stands at the very my daughter Lorca. She's here right now. center of his own tradition. That he is one of the leading flamenco players in Spain. Chris: Yes, she is indeed. You've said of Lorca that he ruined your life. Chris: Has there ever been a conversation between the two of you. Leonard: In the sense that once I knew that there was this landscape that held established, Leonard: We met at a bar in Spain when I was I wanted to stay there most of the time. doing a concert tour there, actually the bar where Lorca used to drink. And, we paid each Chris: So there was no turning back. other our respects.

Leonard: There was no tu rn ing back. [song: "Aleluya" by Enrique Morente, from Omega] Chris: Well, that was the same year I guess that you bought a gu ita rand dove into Chris: That's spectacular. Leonard: Isn't it something? Chris: That's how it sounded back in 1988 on the album I'm Your Man. "First We Take Chris: So powerful. That's a guy called Manhattan." You know, I have to say I have Morente. liked the versions I have heard by Jennifer Warrens and by REM, consistently when I have Leonard: Morente. heard somebody do this song I tend to love it. This one is remarkably different, from Morente. Chris: And the album is called Omega. It's really an overview collection of Cohen and Leonard: Yeah, the percussive approach to the Lorca and it's available only in Spain. song of Morente's, I think is stunning.

Leonard: I don't know the destiny of this [song: "Manhattan" by Enrique Morente, from record. OmegaJ.

Chris: It is quite spectacular. There was a Chris: From Enrique Morente, this is an tribute album that was put out in Norway, and album called Omega. It's a tribute to the this one from Spain and another we hear a writings of Lorca and Cohen. Leonard is with little later on from the Czech Republic is there us this morning. This guy is pretty much a any indication of the songs getting lost in the straight ahead flamenco player. But he does translation, misunderstood, or misinterpreted. experiment.

Leonard: I don't think so. What I like about Leonard: He is regarded as the leading Morente's work is that he takes my songs right innovator in flamenco. He's brought in jazz into his own terrain. He doesn't feel obliged to elements, folk elements, rock & roll. So he's make any references to my version or they are an experi menter. very su btle. The fact that he saw there was a flamenco reality to the work is what touches Chris: He's an experimenter, but he also stands me most deeply. So he brings it right into the at the center of his own tradition. Have you center his own tradition and manifests it as an guys talked after you've received the album? artifact of his own culture. That's what I love about it, that it is his. Leonard: I sent him two dozen roses.

Chris: And the song, really it's not really Chris: That's fantastic. So really at the heart necessarily a great surprise that he chose this of your adoration of this project is your song. But when you look at some of the other appreciation of his understanding of the songs on the album, for example "First We heart behind the songs. Take Manhattan." Leonard: The fact that he saw something in Leonard: That's a very interesti ng version. my songs that could be translated into flamenco music is what touches me. 'Cause a lot of the Chris: Yeah, it's an odd choice. Let's check out changes in, for example, "First We Take the origi na I fi rst. Manhattan" are flamenco changes. So that he saw that these songs had a reference to Leonard: I'll try to remember this one. someth ing that he understood and that we meet there and that he made those songs into [song: "First We Take Manhattan" by Leonard flamenco songs... CohenJ. Reprinted with permission of KCRW Who's Wb~o _

Enrique Morente, born in in 1942, Lagartija Nick (Antonio Arias, bass and was introduced to when he vocals; Lorena Enjuto, bass; David Fernandez, was a child. He moved from his original drums; Jesus Requeno, guitar) released its Granada to when he was eighteen and debut album Hipnosis in 1991 (Romilar-D established links with the big names of the Records). The album was a hit on the cante scene in Madrid: Pepe de la Matrona, independent charts, and the band toured Bernardo el de los Lobitos, and Juan Varea. throughout Spain.

Once in Madrid, what began as growing The band's second, critically acclaimed release, passion for the cante turned into a professional Inercia (CBS Sony), was produced by Owen career. Morente frequented the few regular and Davies, who also produced the Rolling Stones, serious existing stages left for flamenco in Dire Straits, and others. Critics called Su, their Madrid then: Zambra, Cafe Chinitas, and all next recording, their most risky and obscure. the most important flamenco festivals, sharing the bill with the main figures of cante flamenco After two successful tours through Spain, the in that moment. band began working on Omega, joining Enrique Morente, among the greatest contem­ His recording, Tribute to Antonio Chacon, was porary cantaores, on a recording and tour. named I/best folk music album" in 1978, an After their next album, a challenging tribute to award bestowed by the culture authorities of Granada filmmaker Jose Val del Omar, Arias Spain in 1978. Morente also gained serious added electronics to the band's mix; this recognition with the National Award of Music, addition continues to playa significant role the most important music award in Spain in in the group's sound. 1994. After successful international shows in 1999, Morente's style is among the most versatile in the band released Space 1999 on its own current flamenco, and his performances are label, Zero Records, which would become an always challenging. He has introduced a important independent record company in distinctive cultural profile of music to flamenco, Spain, emphasizing the work of avant garde embracing the sound of rock in this tribute to metal bands. Federico Garda Lorca, Omega. His versatility led Morente to create music for the theater, films, and television, and he has introduced his flamenco personality and character into symphonic music in his album Allegro Solea y Fantasfa Flamenca.

His particular gifts and knowledge for contem­ plating Flamenco as a vast and independent landscape makes Morente a genius who dominates all styles (I/Palos") of the genre and allows him to rescue old and forgotten forms of this traditional style of music.

The singer is now one of the most influential personalities on the professional flamenco scene. Rlos Ruiz, co-author of the Diccionario Enciclopedico del Flamenco, stated that I/he has invented the cante of the 21st century."