It was Spain’s equivalent of Bob Dylan’s 1966 “Judas” moment in London, when he turned electric in front of an angry live crowd. In 1996 at a concert in Madrid, the flamenco singer Enrique Morente ended a typical set, the curtains opened and from behind them emerged the rock band Lagartija Nick. To quote one of the interviewees of Omega, this new, radical mix of flamenco and rock — fusing traditional flamenco motifs with songs and lyrics by Leonard Cohen and poems by the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca — was a "hurricane of decibels." It split Morente’s fans down...
- 11/27/2016
- by Jonathan Holland
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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