Tag: flamenco

  • Radio Tarifa: Temporal

    Radio Tarifa: Temporal

    20 years before Jon Balke’s project Siwan, a group of passionate musicians going by the name of Radio Tarifa set out to explore what the music of mediaeval Spain might have sounded like. Over the course of four albums released on the World Circuit/Nonesuch record…

  • Tony Gatlif: Vengo

    Tony Gatlif: Vengo

    Tony Gatlif is a French film maker born in Algiers of a Romani mother. This family connection probably explains why almost every film by Tony Gatlif is concerned with the social, political and cultural alienation of gypsy communities across Europe. And why music as a…