FLAMENCOS DE LA FRONTERA CAPITULO 1 EL CHIPI DE LA CANALLA

We're launching our new interview section, Flamencos de la Frontera (Flamenco from the Border), with this great artist, @LaCanallaChipi. We hope you enjoy it. You can also watch it on our website: https://expoflamenco.com/revista/flam... Antonio Romera "Chipi" He was baptized Antonio Romera in church and known as 'Chipi' or "Chipirón" in bars. A self-taught researcher of Andalusian folklore, screenwriter, author, and songwriter. Founder and leader of La Canalla, a group that blends literature, humor, and high-flying music, he has developed what he calls an "urban songbook of contemporary copla" across his three albums—a catalog of songs that offers a reinterpretation of copla and popular folklore, elevated to their highest expression. In addition to La Canalla, Pasión Vega, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Zenet, Salvador Sobral, Las Migas, Julián Maeso, and others have lent their voices and music to many of his compositions. Beyond music, he has written scripts for television programs, galas, and shows. He has written for José Corbacho, El Sevilla, and Manu Sánchez, among others. Chipi with La Canalla… La Canalla is avant-garde and tradition, tenderness and passion, joy and audacity… a unique encounter of jazz and popular music with a cosmopolitan flair and flamenco spirit, brought to the stage in a unique, free, fresh, and captivating way, where humor and irony serve as instruments to tell very serious stories. Created and led by Antonio Romera 'Chipi', this group from Cádiz is difficult to define; they are exactly like no other. True alchemists who transmute, without being transmuted themselves, the exquisite into the popular, the popular into the exquisite, in an incessant construction of their urban songbook of contemporary copla, a continuous reinterpretation of copla and popular folklore filtered through a purely jazz musical format that flirts with the most diverse musical traditions, to glimpse copla, the Mediterranean on all its coasts, the bolero, pausing to rest in bossa nova, stumbling upon tango and falling into the blues or whatever. After their marvelous debut album 'Flores y Malas Hierbas' (2010) and the spiritually polyphonic 'El Bar Nuestro de Cada Día' (2013), they released 'Amor en Crisis' (La Mar Sonora, February 2017) in 2017, an ode to love in times of crisis, new chronicles of everyday life from humble backgrounds featuring exceptionally ordinary people, which once again garnered excellent reviews from both press and audiences. With over a hundred concerts under their belt, they have toured stages in Spain, Latin America, and the United States, participating in events such as the Canary Islands Jazz Festival, SXSW in Austin (USA), Nocturama Sevilla, Inverfest, Festival Madrid Presenta, Jazz Vejer, Barcelona Guitar Festival, Jazz y Más Huelva, the Quito International Encounter (Ecuador), and the Spanish Caravan Music Festival in Chicago (USA), among many others. #expoflamenco @LaCanallaChipi