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Río de los canasteros
Diego Amador
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Following last year’s release of Piano Jondo, flamenco-
infl uenced jazz pianist Diego Amador is back with another
infusion of richly improvisational Gitano soul. On Rio de
los Canasteros (the title refers to a traditional livelihood
of nomadic, rural-based Gitano tribes) the bandleader’s
powerfully virile yet fl uid and imaginative piano is heard
in fi erce, romantic interplay with guitars and vocals, plus
blistering percussion and palmas (handclaps). Featuring
guest turns from guitar master Tomatito, legendary cantaora (female singer) La Susi, Diego’s own brother Raimundo Amador, who
is equally famed for his Gitano/blues-infl ected guitar and inclusive individuality, super-bassist Carles Benavent and the versatile
Argentinean guitarist Luis Salinas, the album has a charged yet relaxed feeling, much like the atmosphere at a juerga, an informal jam
session where anyone can join in and anything can happen. Lopsided, incessantly mutating rhythms are wreathed in soaring melodies
that can shift in a heartbeat between urbane coolness and feverish emotional engagement. Each of the nine tracks is as redolent of all-
night urban back-room gatherings as long centuries of roadside bonding -- and singed by a hard-won, borderline supernatural and
specifi cally Iberian musical bliss known as duende.
“Self-taught, he has found a way to communicate the age-old flamenco musical culture via the grand piano.”
— Audiophile Audition
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