Juan Carmona

Juan Carmona belongs to that generation of musicians who cannot resign themselves to working alone, in solitary confinement, even inside the gilded cage of a superlative musical tradition.
His status as an expatriate, together with his naturally insatiable curiosity about the world around him and his wide-ranging skill and talent in various areas of music has led to a host of different encounters.
Of course, when in Andalusia he played with Duquende, Chano Dominguez, Agujetas, Antonio Canales, Potito, Isidro Muñoz, Terremoto, Capullo de Jerez, Fernando de la Morena, Joaquin Grilo and countless others. In 1997 he recorded the album Entre dos Barrios with accompanying artists from Jerez: José Mendez, the cantaor Jerezano, Moraito, Chico, Rubem Datas… But he also made other contacts through meetings with jazzmen such as Jan Gabarek, Bireli Lagrene, Sylvain Luc, Larry Coryell, Babik Reinhardt, Philip Catherine, Christian Escoudé and Mino Cinelu, worked with Raphael Fays, another guitarist equally passionate about classical and Manouche music and flamenca, with Indian violinist Subramanian and percussionist Trilok Gurtu, and the Uzbek singer Dadabayeva Matlubeh, as well as composing film music plus his own symphonic work Sinfonia Flamenca, recorded with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, and nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in the “Best Flamenco Album” category, alongside his album Orillas.
Each new encounter added to his range of sounds, confirmed his personality and enriched the appeal of his music.

El sentido del aire marks a new stage in the constant return to grass roots, to the original wellspring of his inspiration and practice of flamenco.
Thanks to the body of experience and wealth of encounters he has behind him, Juan Carmona now offers a repertoire as brilliant as it is dense and haunting, limpid as spring water, subtle as the scent of Spring, full of the treasures he’s accumulated with his adventures, yet overflowing with the same innocence as seems to direct his gaze on life, that of a child who knows he hasn’t finished growing up yet, so he’s always ready to be amazed.