Friday, March 15, 2013
A cool video with some of our actors
There is a cool, bilingual trailer (Spanish and English) featuring Luis de la Tota and Ali de la Tota, two of the performers-actors in DOMINO. These two are percussionists in parts of our background music. In addition, Luis de la Tota plays Josema, the best friend of our lead character, Luis. Ali de la Tota plays Pepe the bartender in the opening scene. Here is the link to the trailer: LINK
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The CD release in the flamenco festival
The official release in Spain of Antonio de la Malena´s double CD took place on Feb. 23, 2013, as an official part of the annual Flamenco Festival of Jerez de la Frontera. The festival presented it in the city´s second to largest theater, Sala la Compañía.
Antonio de la Malena decided to make the event a form of thanking all those who participated in creating his flamenco album (most especially, in the bulerias fin de fiesta in which over eight people, including of course de la Malena, took turns singing). In addition, he wanted to recognize his brother-in-law, singer Mateo Solea, who helped de la Malena´s career at a critical juncture when de la Malena was a child.
So he gave all these people a public role in his presentation, inviting them to sing a little, or give rhythm (palmas, or nudos, or jaleo).
And he wanted to include the dancer María del Mar Moreno, in recognition of all the years he has worked with her, so she danced near the end of the presentation.
Palomino Productions and yours truly were the official producers of this event, so of course I was there. In the excitement, I forgot to bring my camera. SORRY!!!
But not to worry. The local press and TV caught it all, and here is one of the reviews with a video at the bottom taken from the presentation. If you don´t read Spanish, just skip to the bottom and watch the trailer.
The old man you see sitting next to de la Malena at the beginning, and dancing a little at the end, is his father, who can hardly walk (and so his dance isn´t really a dance). It was a very emotional moment for him, especially since one thing de la Malena sang about was his mother, who died not too long ago...and his father still misses her tremendously.
So click on the link below, and enjoy.
LINK
If you are interested in learning more about the double CD, or in purchasing it, if you live in Europe go HERE, and if you live in America, go HERE.
OUR NEXT POST will be about--small businesses in the economic crisis.
Antonio de la Malena decided to make the event a form of thanking all those who participated in creating his flamenco album (most especially, in the bulerias fin de fiesta in which over eight people, including of course de la Malena, took turns singing). In addition, he wanted to recognize his brother-in-law, singer Mateo Solea, who helped de la Malena´s career at a critical juncture when de la Malena was a child.
So he gave all these people a public role in his presentation, inviting them to sing a little, or give rhythm (palmas, or nudos, or jaleo).
And he wanted to include the dancer María del Mar Moreno, in recognition of all the years he has worked with her, so she danced near the end of the presentation.
Palomino Productions and yours truly were the official producers of this event, so of course I was there. In the excitement, I forgot to bring my camera. SORRY!!!
But not to worry. The local press and TV caught it all, and here is one of the reviews with a video at the bottom taken from the presentation. If you don´t read Spanish, just skip to the bottom and watch the trailer.
The old man you see sitting next to de la Malena at the beginning, and dancing a little at the end, is his father, who can hardly walk (and so his dance isn´t really a dance). It was a very emotional moment for him, especially since one thing de la Malena sang about was his mother, who died not too long ago...and his father still misses her tremendously.
So click on the link below, and enjoy.
LINK
If you are interested in learning more about the double CD, or in purchasing it, if you live in Europe go HERE, and if you live in America, go HERE.
OUR NEXT POST will be about--small businesses in the economic crisis.
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