Cante Gitano - Gypsy Flamenco from Andalucia

"It's long and superbly recorded and is a prime example of the real thing." Jeff Cotton, Which CD

"...these Andalusian performers offer the rarest glimpse of a unique culture, a view not possible had the record been made in a cold studio. Kudos to Nimbus for having the integrity to release it unfiltered, raw, and immediate."  American Record Guide 

"An issue or two ago, I praised a recording of flamenco music led by Pepe Romero on the Philips label. That studio recording, I felt, did a fine job of portraying the broad range of Andalucian gypsy music, but it can be argued that this new Nimbus release contains even more impassioned performances—the singers and guitarists seemingly playing for one another as much as for the microphone. To record this music, producer Broadbank—uncharacteristically, for normally homebody Nimbus—carried portable DAT equipment down to the town of Morón de la Frontera in Andalucěa, and when most of the patrons of the Peña (Club) Flamenco had left and the street had been closed to traffic, began to tape throughout the cool hours of the middle of the night. The performers, gypsies all (unless there has been some identification mistake, the two Marias could almost be twins, judging by the accompanying photographs), deliver emotional readings doubtless fired by the quantities of the producer’s J& B they were consuming. You could hardly get more music onto a CD, and Broadbank brings proceedings to a close with an exhausting (22:19) Bulerěas in which all hands participate. The notes are fine, and include an anecdotal account of the making of the recording; the difficult chore of setting down and translating lyrics has also been carried out for our better understanding of this culture of hot nights and violent love under the olive trees. Recommended along with, again, Romero’s Philips CD (422 069-2)."  © John Ditsky, Fanfare, 1989