Jazz Articles about Nacho Arimany

Nacho Arimany and World-Flamenco Septet: Silence-Light

by Mark F. Turner
August 3, 2007

The mysterious and beautiful art-form of Spanish Flamenco music is re-interpreted in composer/percussionist Nacho Arimany's, Silence-Light, a unique listening experience that features the Madrilenian and his World-Flamenco Septet. The genre has been covered before within various idioms, and while the sounds are familiar (precision handclapping and foot-stamping) there is more than what is heard as Arimany states that “The music isn't an esthetic end, but rather a channel to generate movement or communication." This is articulated by ...