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Based on one of the emblematic works of our Cervantes Prize winner, Antonio Gamoneda, the singer Cova Villegas and the musicians of the duo Delta Galgos (Gonzalo Ordás and Marcos Cachaldora), unravel the magical link between blues and poetry.
It is a show that proposes to return the poet's source of inspiration to its original setting. The genius with which Gamoneda used the blues to create a slow, sad song, a cry for the black Spain of the late Franco era, a mixture of chronicle and protest, is linked to the poetics of the blues itself: he was inspired by the rhythmic and tragic spirit of this southern music, originally performed by African-American slaves, to capture the reality that surrounded him.
“We had the texts that referred, apart from their content, rhythmically and structurally to the blues, we had Cova Villegas, a great singer of great versatility: who knows the jazz tradition, who performs blues, improvisation and many other types of music in her different formations and, finally, there was a curious, energetic and delicate duo in the city that treated this music as if it had always been their own, Delta galgos. They just had to be brought together. Their work was excellent and Gamoneda's availability was absolute”, says the poet Víctor M. Díez, who called them together.
Photography: Vicente García
