Guitar and Music: Jesús Torres
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
2. Mármol de espuma
(Malagueña con Jabera)
Guitar, Music and Lyrics: Jesús
Torres
Cante: Miguel Poveda
Cello: José Luis López
Contrabass: Luis Escribano
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Bouzouki: Amir John Haddad
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
String arrangements: Pablo Suárez
3. Tarantango
(Taranta)
Guitar and Music: Jesús Torres
Bandoneon: Jorge Lema
Contrabass: Luis Escribano
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
4. Rincón de los perdíos
(Soleá por Bulería)
Guitar and Lyrics: Jesús Torres
Cante: Encarna Anillo
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
5. Viento del
Norte
(Fantasy)
Guitar: Jesús Torres
6. Sonsonío
(Bulería)
Guitar and Lyrics: Jesús Torres
Cante: Manuel Gago
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Choruses: Ana Mari González, Carmen Amaya
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
7. Pasaje de Valvanera
(Zapateao)
Guitar: Jesús Torres
Percussion: Antonio Coronel
Clapping: Isabel Bayón, Carlos Grilo, El Lúa
8. Alhama
(Lullaby... to my mother)
Guitar: Jesús Torres
Piano: Pablo Suárez
Tambourine: Antonio Coronel
Audio
Synopsis
‘Viento del Norte’ by
guitarist Jesús Torres is the fruit of a solid
career in accompaniment and composing for bailaores
such as Antonio Gades, Mario Maya, Isabel Bayón
and Rafaela Carrasco. The music which he has created
along the way, inspired by the images and dynamics
of flamenco dancing, has evolved and transformed to
shape up this album with which he débuts ‘up
front’. The Ecijan tocaor reveals himself as
a musician who contributes sensitivity, subtlety,
virtuosity and universality to flamenco guitar.
On this record he has collaborations
by cantaores Miguel Poveda, Encarna Anillo and Manuel
Gago, percussionist Antonio Coronel, pianist Pablo
Suárez and bandoneon player Jorge Lema, among
other musicians. As flamencologist José Manuel
Gamboa affirms, ‘Viento del Norte’ is
“a surprise concealed and, until now, displayed
in bits at the back of the stage, behind the batas
de cola. Jesús Torres’s flamenco guitar
is presented at a bright dawn full of harmonies and
lively melodies on underground strings”.
Biography
Jesús
Torres (Barakaldo, 1965) is a recognized flamenco guitarist
specializing in accompaniment and composing for baile.
The Ecijan musician started off in genres such as classical
music and rock, until he moves to Madrid to learn accompaniment
for flamenco dancing by the hand of maestros such as
Manolete and Merche Esmeralda. In 1992 he begins his
professional career in flamenco, taking part in the
tours of María Rosa and José Greco, at
the same time as he was gaining experience at tablaos.
After participating in festivals such as Seville’s
Bienal, he joins the Compañía Andaluza
de Danza (Andalusian Dance Company) as lead guitarist
in 1994. Two years later, he becomes a member of the
Antonio Gades Company, playing in ‘Carmen’
and ‘Fuenteovejuna’. In the following seasons,
he shares his music with Miguel Poveda, Isabel Bayón,
Israel Galván, Mario Maya, Belén Maya,
José Mercé, Chano Lobato... at different
festivals and stages on the world stage circuit, including
the Teatro Real in Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Beginning with Festival de Jerez 2002, he collaborates
with the Rafaela Carrasco Company as a performer and
composer. The 2006/2007 season is key, since besides
working in shows like ‘El eterno retorno’
by Rocío Molina, composing ‘La puerta abierta’
by Isabel Bayón and playing at the City Center
in New York with Rafaela Carrasco, he records his first
solo album, ‘Viento del Norte’.
Press
EL MUNDO February 7th, 2009
Review of ‘Viento del Norte’ in concert
by Jesús Torres at Seville’s Flamenco
Thursdays, by Manuel Martín
“...the show by Torres is related to the jondo’s
soul...”
“...(his sound) reached it in a magnificent
soleá por bulería and in the intimate
bulería Calle Espada, however much the critics
were grateful to him for the farruca, a toque he dazzled
with...” See full
page
EL CORREO DE ANDALUCÍA February 7th, 2009
Review of ‘Viento del Norte’ in concert
by Jesús Torres at Seville’s Flamenco
Thursdays, by Manuel Bohórquez
“Torres composes some very beautiful pieces
of music and they’re interesting in their harmonies,
with immense freshness, as was made clear in the bulería
por soleá Rincón de los perdíos” See full
page
DIARIO DE SEVILLA February 6th, 2009
Review of ‘Viento del Norte’ in concert
by Jesús Torres at Seville’s Flamenco
Thursdays, by Juan Vergillos
See full page
FLAMENCO-WORLD.COM February 5th, 2009
Flamenco x 2. Jesús Torres & Cano, guitarists See
full page
DIARIO DE SEVILLA February 5th, 2009
Preview of the ‘Viento del Norte’ concert
by Jesús Torres at Seville’s Flamenco
Thursdays, by Patricia Godino
“Guitarists Torres and Cano go back over their
emotions at the Flamenco Thursdays” See
full page
TRAD MAGAZINE France, January 2009
Review of the album ‘Viento del Norte’
by Jesús Torres, by Jean-Luc Matte
“Jesús Torres est un guitariste au jeu
très fin, avec une technique que ne renierait
pas un guitariste classique et cette pulsation typiquement
flamenco qu’il sait rendre, aussi bien dans
les plages intimes qu’il semble affectionner
particulièrement, que dans les mélodies
plus nerveuses” See
full page
CANAL SUR RADIO Seville, February 4th, 2009
Interview with Jesús Torres on Jesús
Vigorra’s program ‘El Público’,
with Matilde Coral, El Lebrijano, Mariana Cornejo
and Nano de Jerez
FLAMENCO-WORLD.COM January 29th, 2009
Digital encounter with Jesús Torres, guitarist See
full page
ALMA 100
nº 79 November/December 2008
Interview with Jesús Torres by Javier Primo:
"Jesús Torres. La guitarra serena" See
full page
MUNDO FLAMENCO (HOLANDA) nº 0 / November 1st 2008
Reseña de ‘Viento del Norte’ de
Jesús Torres, por Jean-Pierre Geelen See
full page
FLAMENCO MAGAZINE (FRANCE) August 2008
Reseña ‘Viento del Norte’ de Jesús
Torres, por Norberto Torres See
full page
EL PAÍS ANDALUCÍA June 27th 2008
Reportaje sobre ‘Viento del Norte’ de
Jesús Torres, por Fermín Lobatón
“La música se emancipa del baile” See
full page
EL PAÍS June 27th 2008 Review of Jesús Torres' 'Viento del
Norte' de Jesús Torres published
in the supplement EP3 by Ángel Álvarez
Caballero. See
full page
EL PAÍS May 31st 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s 'Viento
del Norte', by Fermín Lobatón
"Supone una fresca y estimulante aportación
al rico panorama de la guitarra solista de nuestros
días (...). Sus renovadas armonías compiten
con el alto contenido melódico que reina en
todo el disco" See
full page
RNE. RADIO CLÁSICA May 17th, 2008
Interview with Jesús Torres about 'Viento del
Norte'. José María Velázquez-Gaztelu's
program 'Nuestro Flamenco' (Radio Clásica,
RNE)
ALMA 100 nº 76 April-May 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s 'Viento
del Norte', by Javier Primo
"...They’re scores sweet to the ear, originally
intended to be danced, which conceal details of great
interest..." See
full page
DIARIO
DE SEVILLA April 16th, 2008 Review of Jesús Torres’s ‘Viento
del Norte’
“A work in which contention and intimacy have
priority, despite the epic poetry por bulerías
which opens the album, dedicated in memory of his
father. This is an exquisite record with contained
guitar playing which hardly dares to sound above the
percussion or vocals. (...) Torres furiously shows
that, like everyone, his is a heart that suffers and
enjoys”. See
full page
FLAMENCO-WORLD.COM March 2008
“I think ignorance causes a lot of boldness
in flamenco nowadays”
Interview with Jesús Torres, by Silvia Calado See
full page
DIARIO DE
JEREZ February 27th, 2008 The most complete youths in the world
Review of the concert ‘Flamenco World Music’,
by David Fernández See
full page
