Description
Soul Jazz Records’ new release is the first album ever outside of Spain to focus on the history of Gipsy Rhumba – one of the most interesting musical culture clashes – that first took place in the early 1960s. In the Catalan region of Spain, gipsies, primarily known as the creators of Flamenco, came up with a fascinating hybrid style – Gipsy Rhumba – which blended together Latin and Rhumba music of Cuba and the Caribbean together with their own flamenco, as well as the emerging rock’n’roll from America. As well as a musical overview of this unique art form, the release comes with extensive contextual notes (in English and Spanish) and the photography of Jacques Leonard, who documented gipsy life in the 1960s, creating one of the most important records of their unique world in the 20th century.
