Son De La Frontera

Son De La Frontera: Son De La Frontera

by Chris May
January 21, 2006

Son De La Frontera's radical ambition on this album is simultaneously to look forwards and backwards--forward to Andalusian retentions in modern Latin American music, back to flamenco's own birth in Moorish music ("Moorish" in a flamenco context being a description as approximate as Jelly Roll Morton's “Spanish tinge," encompassing a diversity of North African and Levantine styles). The roots flamenco quintet succeeds brilliantly and thrillingly, particularly in its rediscovery of flamenco's deepest Gypsy roots in ancient North Indian and Afghani ...