Bebo Valdes and El Cigala

That's pianist Bebo Valdes, one of Cuba's great jam session players of the 1950s (and still a potent force on the music scene) and flamenco vocalist Diego "El Cigala," whose half-croaked, Arabic-tinged inflections offer a fine counterpoint to Valdes's trademark sleek, supple piano runs.

Mozart

Concerto n° 20 ,
Maria Joao Pires,
Direction : Pierre Boulez,

Indialucia

Around the Ninth Century, for some unknown reasons, thousands of inhabitants of the north-western part of India began to emigrate west.After many years, in the beginning of the 19th Century, due to mutual influences and the mingling of all these elements, a mysterious and expressive type of music emerged. Today we know it as Flamenco.
The musical tradition of India, which in spite of its long existence has never developed those elements, typical of European music, generated extremely complicated rhythms and hundreds of scales unknown to the musicians from Europe.
The musicians from Poland, Spain and India fusing flamenco and Indian classical together takes the statement to a whole new level - a phenomenal musical entity which goes by the name of Indialucia.



In the present form of flamenco dance we can trace certain similarities to the kathak style from the north of India. The elements that resemble the dance of Andalusian Gypsies are the movements of arms, palms and fingers as well as tapping, typical for this kind of dance.

Zambra

The Zambra, also known as the Zambra Mora is a flamenco dance performed by the Roma people (Gitanos) of Granada which is believed to have evolved from earlier Moorish dances and has some similarities to belly dancing. In Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Morocco, "zambra" means party. The Zambra dance forms part of the wedding ceremonies at Gitano weddings, and gypsies perform it for tourists in the Andalucian Sacromonte Caves and Hills. It was outlawed at one time in history and became known as the "Forbidden Dance".