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Escrito Está, It's destiny. In this new disc, which provides the title and the contents of a new recital, Amancio Prada carries on his permanent search for emotion and beauty. Words and music bound together and held up by the melodic arch.
Escrito Está, It's destiny. To sing like someone praying: a poem by Rabindranath Tagore Permite, Padre (With your permission, Father), which is a prayer; Oporto, Sir? (Port, Sir?), from the Cancionero de Sagres (Song Cycle of Sagres) by Antonio Pereira: "The Douro is a river of wine which flows through to Liverpool and London "..., aromas of wine and of "fado" for that river Douro and its eternal verse of water, the sweat of those who harvest the grapes for the port under the blazing sun... with the guitar and cello tangled up together like two flames lighting up the maleficio de la mariposa (The Butterfly´s Evil Spell) by Federico García Lorca: I am death and beauty; the echo of Mozarabic Kharchas in El mío rosal (My rose bush) by Mar Santos Lobo; a smell of tools and of hands, by Miguel Hernández; the Song of the Masai boy, which he writes with his finger in the air, by Rafael Pérez Estrada; the lucid and terrible lines of the Delirium of the Skeptic, by María Zambrano; For my beloved, by Antonio Pacheco; I dreamt that you were taking me... by Don Antonio Machado, etc. Classic and well-respected poets, along with other contemporary poets, some of whom are very young and virtually unpublished. Like tributaries which flow into that lyrical river of songs which is for ever growing.
Escrito Está, It's destiny , with Amancio singing, with the music that He himself has composed, accompanied by Pedro Navarrete on the piano, Cuco Pérez on the accordion, Hillary Fielding on the cello and Luis Delgado on the Portuguese guitar, kalimba, lute and the various percussion instruments. Accompanied too by the Juan Carlos Mestre´s very own shivering voice reciting the Antífona del Otoño (Autumn Antiphon), alternating with the singing. And by Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, who sings with Amancio one of the best songs by Chicho and García Calvo: Tú, cuya mano.. (You, whose hand)
Amancio Prada. For those who want to listen. Like the singing of the sailor in el Romance del Conde Arnaldos, (The Romance of Count Arnaldos) A quien conmigo va (To those who come with me).
ESCRITO ESTÁ, It's destiny, has already visited the following stages: ·Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) · Universidad de Málaga · FNAC (Madrid) · Festival de Nájera · Festival Internacional Castillo de Ainsa · Universidad de Valladolid · Auditorio Alfredo Kraus (Las Palmas) · Luar (TVG) · Burgos · Teatro Principal (Zamora) · Auditorio Caja de Avila (Ávila) · Gran Teatro de Córdoba · Auditorio Carmen Estévez (Vilalba) · Teatro Bergidum (Ponferrada) · Teatro-Salón Cervantes (Alcalá de Henares) And too: Sevilla, Coria, Plasencia, Cáceres, Mérida y Badajoz, Roma, Atenas, Alicante, Segovia, Madrid, etc.
