The Secrets of Andalusia - CD

We know that key influences on Flamenco date backto Islamic Iberia or the Al-Andalusian era of Spainbetween the 8th-15th centuries. Yet the first mentionof Flamenco by name is not until 1774, where itappears in an epistolary novel, Cartas Marruecas, bythe playwright and soldier, Jose de Cadalso y Vazquez. In collaboration on with soprano Victoria Couper, kanunplayer, Konstantin nos Glynos, and oud/Flamencoguitarist, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, this album seeksto explore this question by tracing the influences onFlamenco through Arabic music alongside Sephardicsong and the Spanish composers of the late-16th to18th centuries. What happened in these intervening centuries?