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Ojos De Brujo: Corriente Vital - 10 Anos
by Chris May
Ojos De BrujoCorriente Vital: 10 AnosWarner Music Spain2011 The word is that Corriente Vital: 10 Anos may be Barcelona-based Ojos De Brujo's final album. It is now over a decade since the Catalan and Gypsy collective released its debut, Vengue (Edel, 2000), in its unique flamenco, rumba, raga, dub, hip hop and jazz style. Since then, ODB has made seven world tours and three more magnificent studio albums--Bari (World Village, 2002), ...
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by Chris May
While for most people outside Spain, life with Ojos de Brujo began in 2004 with baritone (World Village), or later with Techari (Six Degrees, 2006), the Barcelona-based, Catalan and Gypsy collective has been together since the late 1990s, and released its first album, Vengue (Edel), in 1999. In all this time, the band has stayed true to its original vision: an intoxicating rainbow of flamenco, rumba, jazz, rap, reggae and funk, topped with anti-establishment, libertarian lyrics written in the main ...
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by AAJ Staff
The title of this album means freedom," and if one word could be used to describe Ojos de Brujo's outernational outlook, that would be it. The Spanish band's deep and unflinching roots in the flamenco idiom have somehow prevented its ever-expanding scope from losing focus, which makes ODB something of a rare species in the misnomered world of global fusion." Perhaps the ancient-to-future outlook of these modern gypsies could only have happened in a singular place like Barcelona, which is ...
read moreOjos de Brujo: Girando Bari
by AAJ Staff
Ojos de Brujo Girando baritone (Touring baritone) Diquela Records 2005
Ojos de Brujo may explode, implode or simply vaporize, depending on the vagaries of market forces and the challenges of keeping a collective alive, but one thing I can guarantee you with 100% certainty: this band will never sell out. Pop music icons sometimes do fall to temptation--Snoop Dogg has been hawking Chrysler and Flava Flav is pushing Miller Lite--but these Spanish outcats are ...
read moreOjos de Brujo: Remezclas de la Casa
by AAJ Staff
Ojos de Brujo, a Barcelona collective whose name means eyes of the wizard," took worldwide audiences by storm with its first international release, baritone (World Village, 2004), helped in no small part by prominent exposure on American college radio. By combining insistent flamenco with hip-hop, rumba, North African and Indian rhythms, and other less straightforward styles, the group broke down a huge number of barriers with respect to what listeners have come to expect from Spanish music. Out of the ...
read more"Ojos de Brujo Reworked" Just Released
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Press Junkie PR
UrbanWorld Records and Al Lindrum proudly present Ojos de Brujo Reworked, a remix compilation of the music of Grammy award-winning, Spanish flamenco-fusion group, Ojos de Brujo. Throughout the last 10 years, Ojos de Brujo has represented the freshest fusion of flamenco and urban music. By staying true to their Catalan roots, they successfully merge past and present to create a unique sound. It was a difficult job selecting only five tracks from their immense and amazing back-catalog, but we think ...
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Ojos de Brujo Wins Latin Grammy
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All About Jazz
On Thursday, November 8, 2007, The 8th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards announced Ojos de Brujo and their album Techar as the winner for Best Flamenco Album." Ramn Gimnez, one of the band's guitarists, was there to receive the prestigious award.
We are excited that the Latin Recording Academy has recognized this innovative band who are taking flamenco music into the future," says Bob Duskis, president and co-founder of Six Degrees Records.
Six Degrees Records is also proud to announce the ...
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