SHOWS
Los Voluble
Sevilla
La Voz de alarma.
Zona Acordonada + FLAMENCO IS NOT A CRIME.
Los Voluble & Raúl Cantizano
Cantizano fuses flamenco, ambient, rock, and improvisation. Experimental and iconoclastic, he has played with Niño de Elche, Rocío Márquez, and Andrés Marín. His collaborations include projects with Juan Carlos Lérida, Belén Maya, and Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé.
Cordoned Zone is a concert featuring prepared guitar, hybrid and transmedia elements that originate from the guitar, electronics, flamenco, and live audiovisual creation.It aims to tighten the strings, shift viewpoints, and reflect on society, art, and culture in this our "new normal." It is a project that explores a new language in stage, visual, performative, and musical terms, extending the usual space of the guitarist beyond their chair and their fingers.It is an atypical recital of expanded guitar where light, live video, and action accompany the music in a renewed and current format. It relates various ways of understanding the scene and the instrument; from its most classical conception to the most innovative.Its intention is to broaden the registers and possibilities. It presents itself as a laboratory guided by different moments in which the guitarist and music interact with screens, electronic devices, cameras, live projections, and electronic music.
Los Voluble experiment with remixing, live cinema, digital folklore, and political remix video. With Flamenco is not a crime, premiered at the Nîmes Flamenco Festival, they mark a turning point, developing an unorthodox reflection on flamenco, festivity, and the purism of electronic music. They use the screen as another instrument to delve into critical culture. They have directed music videos for Pony Bravo, Hijos del Trueno, BSN Posse, María José Llergo, Califato ¾ and others.
Flamenco is Not a Crime and JALEO IS A CRIME are two approaches from remixing, critical culture, and live cinema, promoted by Los Voluble to bring together two genres such as electronic music and flamenco. Points of connection that are consolidated through the visual experience they manage to generate by using the screen as one more instrument. Flamenco improvisation or the purity of electronic music are remixed live in this double session.
Inspired by the "free party is not a crime" movement, Los Voluble presented a proposal in which flamenco and electronic music intersect with critical culture and political remix video.
Following the path of concepts articulated in previous shows such as "Raverdial" or "En el nombre de", around festivity, the shared nature of remixing, and the complexity of the collective, Pedro and Benito Jiménez propose two direct approaches to flamenco and its contrasts: purism versus avant-garde or experimentation, attitude versus flamenco aptitude, or its parallelism and connection with other musical genres such as Gqom, footwork, experimental dub, grime, or reggaeton, among many other stylistic leaps.
La Voz de Alarma (2025) is an expanded project through which Los Voluble generate a live audiovisual proposal that links, using remixes, the creation of a new flamenco archive, the proposals of global electronic music with social criticism in times of genocide, fake news and climate change.
This show uses flamenco as a contemporary tool for change and reflection where the past and the present are intertwined in a contemporary audio-vision on the world's unrest.
As if it were a trilogy, after Flamenco is not a Crime (2019) and JALEO IS A CRIME (2022), flamenco once again takes centre stage in a piece by Los Voluble focusing on dance with collaboration, through residencies prior to the presentation of the show, where local artists record and propose new raw materials for remix work and live improvisation.
La Voz de Alarma embraces the cultural riches of negritude in flamenco and the current diasporas as a way of contributing an anti-racist and anti-genocide message. Humour and political current affairs also appear as a way of hacking algorithms and asking questions about the society we inhabit.