In concert
Jaco Abel "Flamenco Electrico" is presented live with a Quartet with the possibility to extend until a Sextet, depending on the booking. The both options are visualized as a traditional Flamenco group, having the band sitting on chairs placed in "half a moon" setting.
The Quartet is composed of one Percussionist on Flamenco Cajon, one singer, a Flamenco guitarist and a female dancer. When it comes to be a sextet we add an other Percussionist and a male Dancer/ Handclap player.
The repertoire is based on the CD "Flamenco Electrico" with some new songs and some traditional ones, this makes a concert where there are old and new Flamenco sounds always respecting the canons of Flamenco. To book in a Concert Hall, Theaters, Festivals, Cultural Events etc...
The musicians that acompany Jaco Abel on his live concert are his habitual collaborators and part of the fantastic and virtuoso goup of artists that recorde the CD.
We could also count with presence of the phenomenal singer Ramon "el Portugues" as a special guest or also with the maestro of the flamenco guitar Pepe Habichuela, as a double concert.
Master class
Master class Resum: Jaco Abel
Pulse and Harmony displacement in real time through "claves"
I am offering to the Music Schools, the possibility to have a Master Class about the music based in Flamenco, Latin and African claves o compas, this concept brings a new dimension and understanding in pulse and harmonic rhythm.
During all this years of music dedication and observation, I had a chance to work and tour with musicians from many different backgrounds as: Surinam, Libano, Brazil, Bulgaria, Africa, Europe, South and North America, etc ... Learning and absorbing their music, concepts, rhythms etc... all, always banded to the fact of my Flamenco origen. I have developed a way to improvise, displacing the harmonies and melodies through the pulse and sub and super dividing it in the claves, something that is done in Flamenco music by intuition, but now it is possible to apply it to real time improvisation.
Just to have and idea... lets imagine that a 4/4 bar lasts 2 seconds, so this 2 seconds will contain 4 quarter notes, superimposing some certain claves, this 2 seconds have the possibility of containing 3 or 6 quarter notes,( all inside of the same 2 seconds), resuming: We can, in a certain space of time and superimposing some clave work, convert that same space of time in, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4 having the choice of every subdivision maintaining the same harmonic time or not.
The academic way of studying polyrithms comes from subdividing a given pulse, in my case from a more folkloric point of view once I established a clave, I play in any of the 3 or 4 diferent existing pulses, having a total rhythmic and harmonic freedom in an improvisation.
