SPAIN/TURKEY: Dorantes and Taksim a true flamenco combination

DORANTES & TAKSIM TRIO  " GYPSIES FROM MEDITERRANEAM" RABTA  Piano – Dorantes Clarinete y Duduk – Hüsnü Şenlendirici Bağlama – Ismail Tunçbilek Kanun – Aytaç Doğan Batería y Percusiones – Javi Ruibal    DORANTES AND THE TAKSIM TRIO A TRUE FLAMENCO COMBINATION  By Teresa Fernandez Herrera Periodistas-es   Gitanos del Mediterráneo, a creation made by Dorantes and the Turkish trio Taksim, is an exciting tribute to the gypsy ethnicity, a show that produced the somatization known as hair rasing on several occasions during the concert yesterday in the Green Room of Teatros del Canal, with a strong dermal sensation included.

Dorantes is David Peña Dorantes, of the Perrate dynasty of Lebrija, all of them artists of at least three generations, since the times of his grandmother, Maria la Perrata, or as his uncle, the recently disappeared and famous singer, El Lebrijano.  He is the pianist of the family, an authentic virtuous who plays jazz and all the classic symphonic repertoire. But there is a great love story of Dorantes with the flamenco and with its people, as you could see and hear yesterday and many other times.

LIVE recording  FROM SUMA FLAMENCA FESTIVAL. THEATRE OF CANAL - MADRID june 2017  The Taksim Trio is composed by Hüsnü Senlendirici, clarinet and duduk, a wind instrument originated in Armenia; Ismail Yunçbilek, the master of the baglama, a string instrument with ancestors in the lute and mandolin, and Aytaç Dogan, with the kanun, a Middle Eastern instrument that could be at the origin of the guitar.    And to the percussion, the habitual one of Dorantes, Javi Ruibal, located in the center of the scene with its equipment of percussion, with Dorantes and the great piano to its left, and to its right in this order: Aytaç Dogan, Ismail Tunçbilek and Hüsnü Senlendirici. As Ruibal says, “I am the mediator”. Those of the trio, apart from extraordinary musicians, are close and accomplices with the public, especially Ismail, who lavishes sympathy and closeness and who could be an Andalusian gypsy by his appearance . As someone said, those of Istanbul and Lebrija could be brothers and sisters.