Omega (Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition) Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick

• 1 Omega (Poema Para Los Muertos) (Remastered 2016) 10:48
• 2 Pequeño Vals Vienes (Take This Waltz) (Remastered 2016) 05:33
• 3 Solo Del Pastor Bobo (Remastered 2016) 03:42
• 4 Manhattan (First We Take Manhattan) (Remastered 2016) 04:44
• 5 La Aurora De Nueva York (Remastered 2016) 04:59
• 6 Sacerdotes (Remastered 2016) 04:07
• 7 Niña Ahogada En El Pozo (Granada Y Newburg) (Remastered 2016) 03:45
• 8 Adán (Remastered 2016) 04:14
• 9 Vuelta De Paseo (Remastered 2016) 05:08
• 10 Vals En Las Ramas (Remastered 2016) 04:01
• 11 Aleluya (Remastered 2016) 06:24
• 12 Norma Y Paraiso De Los Negros (Remastered 2016) 04:23
• 13 Ciudad Sin Sueño (Nocturno De Brooklyn Bridge) (Remastered 2016) 05:46
• 14 Oriente Y Occidente (En Directo En Valencia 2005) 08:44
• 15 Omega (Poema Para Los Muertos) (Demo '95) 06:17
• 16 Pequeño Vals Vienés (Take This Waltz) (Ensayo) 05:47
• 17 Aleluya (Mezcla Alternativa) 06:16
• 18 Ciudad (Directo) 07:03
• 19 Oye, Esta No Es Manera De Decir Adiós (Demo '95) 03:19
• 20 Vuelta De Paseo (Mezcla Alternativa) 04:23
• 21 Son De Negros En Cuba (Demo '96) 03:37
• 22 Ciudad Sin Sueño (Ensayo) 01:44
• 23 Vals En Las Ramas (Ensayo) 03:38
• 24 Niña Ahogada En Un Pozo (Mezcla Alternativa) 04:33
• 25 Un Cantaor Debe Morir (Demo '96) 05:03
• 26 Omega (Poema Para Los Muertos) (Mezcla Alternativa) 10:49
• Total Runtime 02:18:47

Info zu Omega (Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition)

20th Anniversary Edition of “Omega”, one of the most influential albums in Spanish music of recent decades. “Omega” is the result of Enrique Morente’s genius and his devotion to the works of Federico García Lorca and Leonard Cohen. Together with Lagartija Nick and a line-up of the finest flamenco guitarists of his generation, Enrique Morente created a monumental album that has continued to prove its worth and is now being re-released in a remastered and expanded edition.

The album also features numerous flamenco artists—such as Vicente Amigo, Tomatito, Estrella Morente, Isidro Muñoz, and Cañizares—who joined in adapting poems from Federico García Lorca’s "Poet in New York" ("Poeta en Nueva York") as well as songs by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. This record became a landmark in the evolution of flamenco, opening up paths that had previously been unexplored.

The impact of this work was such that, from time to time, Enrique Morente and the band from Granada would reunite to perform *Omega* live. One such instance took place at the 2008 Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, ​​as part of a tour that same year—a tour that even brought them to Mexico to present their work.

Enrique Morente, vocals
Vicente Amigo, flamenco guitar
Juan Manuel Cañizares, flamenco guitar
Miguel Ángel Cortés, flamenco guitar
Montoyita, flamenco guitar
El Paquete (Juan Jose Suarez), flamenco guitar
Juan Antonio Salazar, flamenco guitar
Isidro Muñoz, flamenco guitar
Tomatito, flamenco guitar
Antonio Arias, bass, backing vocals
M.A.R. Pareja, electric guitar
Juan Codorniu, electric guitar
Erik (Eric Jiménez), drums, percussion
Tino Di Geraldo, cajon, percussion
Tomás San Miguel, accordion, keyboards
The Bandolero, cajon
El Negri, cajón, palmas (hand-clapping), backing vocals
Javier Losada, double bass
José Antonio Galicia, percussion
Antonio Carbonell, backing vocals, palmas (hand-clapping)
Aurora Carbonell, backing vocals
Estrella Morente, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Enrique Morente
was born in the Albaicín on Christmas Day 1942, the second son of Encarnación Cotelo and Juan Morente. As a boy he was a seise at Granada cathedral, and at eighteen he left for Madrid, where he worked as a bricklayer, shoemaker, barber and seller while singing in the flamenco peñas. He died in Madrid on 13 December 2010.

His recordings set lyrics by poets including Federico García Lorca and Miguel Hernández, and he recorded Omega with the rock group Lagartija Nick. In 2005 he presented Morente sueña la Alhambra, a dark, poetic vision of the monument.

Enrique Morente best sums up his approach, ‘La ortodoxia, y estoy plenamente seguro de ello, a uno de los que le gusta es a mí, pero yo creo que nuevos caminos y, si esto está hecho con sinceridad y honestidad, siempre sirve para ver nuevas experiencias y los errores sirven para ver nuevas ventanas. Cuando se intentan nuevas cosas, todo no va a salir perfecto, todo no va a salir bien, eso siempre es un riesgo, para mí sería mucho más cómodo al estar cantando siempre la malagueña del Canario…’ (La Discoteca Ideal de Flamenco by Ángel Álvarez Caballero, Enciclopedias Planeta, Barcelona, 1995).

His first recording appeared in 1967: on Cante flamenco he was accompanied by the guitarist Félix de Utrera. His second recording followed soon after; on Cantes antiguos del flamenco he was accompanied by the guitarist Niño Ricardo. With these two recordings he made a strong start in the world of flamenco, and he demonstrated his excellent knowledge of traditional cante flamenco. It was however, after this period that his restlessness increasingly began to be apparent. In his own words: ‘Yo soy una persona que me aburre cantar siempre igual y pienso que la ortodoxia hay que cogerla e inspirarse y desarrollarla para hacer cosas que inviten a hacer nuevo arte.’

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