The Cátedra de Flamencología y Estudios Folclóricos Andaluces de Jerez and the Peña Los Cernícalos met on 29 June to celebrate a special birthday: the 50th anniversary of one of the most relevant flamenco albums: Nueva Frontera del Cante de Jerez.
This album is a double LP recorded in 1972 but released by RCA in ’73. In the first part of Nueva Frontera del Cante, called Recital de cante gitano, the soleares of Rubichi, the seguiriyas of Manuel Moneo and Mateo Soleá and the tangos of Juan Moneo El Torta stand out. In the second, the Fiesta de la Plazuela, Tío Gregorio El Borrico, godfather of this album, sings some old bulerías from Jerez (Anda y dale, dale).
Both the peña and the chair (directed by one of the founders, Juan de la Plata) were promoters and organisers of such a collection of talent from the 1940s and 1950s. The direction was carried out by poet Antonio Murciano from Arcos. Moraíto Chico, Parrilla de Jerez, Niño Jero and Rafael Alarcón are also among the artists on the album, but there are more… For example, the voice of Manuel Malena can be heard at the age of 12 thanks to the insistence of the flamencologist Alfredo Benítez, known to be a defender of the Jerez guitar school.
Nueva Frontera del Cante de Jerez is worth having in your sound archive.
Reedición del disco original
Cante de Jerez, Cádiz y los Puertos (Sherry, Cádiz and the Ports)
Experience this pure flamenco recital by Jesús Castilla accompanied by the guitar of Adriano Lozano and the compás of Naim Real and Luis Monge Pijote in ALL FLAMENCO.