(Nouveau Flamenco, World, Vocal Jazz, Latin, Casa Limón) Sandra Carrasco (feat. Javier Limon, Avishai Cohen, Pepe Habichuela, Ariadna Castellanos, Josemi Carmona) - Sandra Carrasco - 2011, MP3, ~265 kbps

Sandra Carrasco (Huelva, 1981). Singer
Sandra Carrasco was born in 1981 in Almonte, Huelva. She studied music education while taking flamenco courses at the University of Huelva. She has won numerous flamenco awards, including the Prize of the Association of Nerva in Seville and the Best Interpretation Award Antonio Rengel, and received several scholarships that gave her the opportunity to study with Paco Taranto, José de la Tomasa, and Adelita Domingo, among others.
She has taken her flamenco singing to such places as Washington, D.C., the Seville Biennial, México, Croatia, Germany, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ecuador, Rome, the Madrid National Auditórium and the most important flamenco tablaos of Madrid. She has collaborated on the records of artists like Estrella Morente, Arcángel, El Pele, Manolo Sanlъcar, Carmen Linares, José Mercé, Pepe de Lucía, Javier Limón, and Anoushka Shankar and participated in a Haiti benefit recording with Alejandro Sanz, Bebe, and Carlos Jean.
Her first album, produced by Javier Limón, with the collaboration of Avishai Cohen, Kudsi Erguner, Josemi Carmona and Pepe Habichuela, was released by Blue Note Flamenco record label, on September 2011.

Sandra Carrasco releases her début album, published by the label Blue Note Flamenco and produced by Javier Limón. On this recording, the Huelva-born cantaora has the flamenco backing of Pepe Habichuela and Josemi Carmona. And she is also accompanied by musicians from other parts of the world like Israeli double bass player Avishai Cohen, Moroccan violinist Faiçal Kourrich, Cuban pianist Iván ‘Melón’ Lewis and young performers from Boston’s Berklee School of Music. “The record has some very deep jondo roots”, the artist explains. And she adds that it is “an encounter of Middle East, Mediterranean, Spanish and flamenco cultures”. ‘Solilla’, ‘Calle del Olivar’, ‘Arde corazón’, ‘Mírame’ and ‘Fandangos con el tío Pepe’ are some of the twelve songs on the album, recorded at studios in Madrid, Tel Aviv and Paris.

Javier Limón (acoustic and flamenco guitara)
Pepe Habichuela (flamenco guitar)
Josemi Carmona (guitar)
Israel Suárez “Piraña” (flamenco percussion)
Avishai Cohen (bass)
Faiçal Kourrich (violin)
Charlie Méndez (bass)
Juan Vargas (ethnic percussion)
Abdul Sharif (buzuki)
Ariadna Castellanos (piano)
Ali Brigui Amr (qanun, voice)
Sarpay Özçagatay (flute)
Amparo Edo (french horn)
Tareq Rantisi (percussion)
Paloma Torres (lead vocals)