Niño de Elche Memorial de Cante de Mis Bodas de Plata con el Flamenco

To speak about the memory of the cantes (Flamenco songs) is also to speak of their obscurity. A cante lives more in the physical memory of the cantaor (singer) than in his brain because bones and muscles also sing, because the deceased sing as well. Possession as a rite of listening to the past that is invoked anew. To sit again in what is unrecognizable, in that which had previously been assumed to be our own. But a memorial is also an endearing commemoration of something that has lasted despite time or its death. An act of celebration and appreciation, not to something lifeless, but of identifying oneself in a repertoire and in previous aesthetic forms that were part of the structure that today shape the new cantaor or the ex-flamenco. A soiree in which el duende (the special gift that some Flamenco artists possess) becomes once more the devilish master of ceremonies that makes Flamenco an irreversible act.