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"Hands" Flamenco Album Releases in July (Europe)
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Wednesday May 05, 2010
from The Guardian
Dave Holland/Pepe Habichuela: Hands
By John Fordham
Dave Holland may be influential for his contemporary composition, but he has an equally vigorous life playing bass for other people. Hands is a departure for him, a collaboration with veteran flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela, his sidemen and his son Josemi. Holland’s sound (at times echoing Charlie Haden’s with the Spanish-inflected 1970 Liberation Music Orchestra) is a natural for this richly sonorous idiom, but traditional flamenco is mixed with lighter dance tunes and starker solo meditations here, and Holland’s own Whirling Dervish lands somewhere between a Latin-jazz swinger and African hi-life. The title track is a classic flamenco strut varied by a heated bass break and the yielding thump of the cajon drum; handclapping and elegant melodies fuel graceful tangos; and the rumba El Ritmo Me Lleva has a song-like lightness. However, it’s the brooding Bailaor that best balances the sense of patient negotiation and sharply seized openings of the best jazz groups with the directional certainties of flamenco song. Occasionally, the more world-jazzy parts veer towards the overly tasteful, but Holland’s deep feelings for the rootsier parts of this programme are unmistakable.
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