OT: discovering new artists and music (not looping content)

["e t e r o g e n e o" <info@eterogeneo.com>]

Hi people,
I've just got back from my holydays...and i've found lot of e.mails from 
this list...ARGHHH !

This is just to share a new band from Spain i discovered a few months ago: 
the name is Ojos De Brujo (http://ojosdebrujo.com/)
I think that those of you who are attracted by rhythm and flamenco style 
can 
enjoy them: there is a lot of tabla, palmas, tacones, cajon, drums and DJ 
scretch... all together. There is also a nice and hard contamination 
between 
traditional flamenco style and funky, dub, and electronica (there is also 
a 
DJ in the ensemble).
If you like Ojos the Brujo, i strongly raccomend their last album 
"Techarì".
If interested, there are a lot of live performance on you tube.
You can start from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2obwOKQQPk

Some mails from this list has shown an interest for the "east" sound; for 
example, i remeber there was a lot of talkin about tablas and other 
similar 
percussions, forgetting other nice percussions like the "cajon" . And also 
forgetting the complex rhythm of flamenco (that has a dozen of musical 
forms 
(called "palos"): buleria, solea, rumba, taranta, etc...., each one with 
his 
own rhythm character and accents (for some examples, check this : 
http://www.compas-flamenco.com/en/palos.html)
In addition to the original elements of flamenco, Paco de Lucia, added 
(and 
is adding) new elements from jazz, classic, and latin music. Today there 
are 
a lot artists adding more elements: from tango, to electronica.
That's why i love that so called "new flamenco", because is a genre that 
is 
living an edge of growing contamination with other syles or kind of 
musics, 
that i've never seen, or remember, in other musical genre.

Just to share...

fabio
www.eterogeneo.com