{"id":185539,"date":"2018-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/el-meson-de-la-flota-passion-is-always-true\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:37:01","slug":"meson-la-flota-passion-is-always-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/meson-la-flota-passion-is-always-true\/","title":{"rendered":"El Mes\u00f3n de la Flota: Passion Is Always True"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is necessary to agree with Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca. \u201cThere is no map or exercise to search for magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Described in Andalusia as a mysterious and ineffable charm, the magic ran away to America more than five centuries ago in Columbus\u2019 expeditions and right now we detect it, very much alive, in the musicians and dancers that liven up the evenings and nights in El Mes\u00f3n de la Flota. Do they fan the guitar? \/ Yes. \/ And they play the string guitar? \/ Also, and without capo. \/ And do they sing without music? \/ Well, sometimes. \/ And the cante jondo<\/em>? \/ That\u2019s always present. Soleares<\/em>, seguiriyas<\/em> or ton\u00e1s<\/em>, whatever you want. \/ With jaleo<\/em> or without jaleo<\/em>? \/ With a lot of jaleo<\/em>. \/ And the dancers? \/ The magic is always with them.<\/p>\n

That could well be the imaginary dialogue between a connoisseur of flamenco music and the group performing a season at El Mes\u00f3n de la Flota flamenco bar.<\/p>\n

Located at 257 Mercaderes Street, on the first floor of the small hostel (bearing the same name) with five spacious rooms, the Mes\u00f3n evokes the traditional Spanish inn that proliferated in the accesses to the port of the township of San Crist\u00f3bal de La Habana during the first centuries of the colony, where the Atlantic fleets of the Spanish empire stopped for supplies.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere is seafaring, Of course. Replicas of old ships, flags of the sign codes, nets, astrolabes, telescopes, wheels, notifications about transatlantic steam ships, cargo and passengers, making a stopover in Caribbean ports, and barrels and ropes and sails collected in yards.<\/p>\n

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And clients, no matter where they come from and no matter for how long, while listening to flamenco can taste exquisite dishes \u2013 always featuring seafood \u2013 together with Spanish tapas and an international wine cellar, in addition to Cuban and Spanish desserts. And afterwards, rounding it off by deifying the most demanding palate: a cup of hot Cuban coffee, cultivated in the humid and arborescent eastern mountains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll keep you company with our music, even when there\u2019s only one table with clients,\u201d says Eduardo Betancourt, percussionist and flamenco singer of the group De Roc\u00edo, one of the many that cultivate flamenco and alternate with others in the Mes\u00f3n, like Ecos, the company that represents the Andalusian genre with the most orthodoxy and talent.<\/p>\n

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Eduardo is an affable young man. He confidently tells about his encounter with flamenco. It has been empirical. He used to sing different genres, \u201ctraditional Cuban music,\u201d he says, until he saw a video and heard the duet of El Cigala and Cuban pianist Bebo Vald\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Electrifying? \u201cWell, of course. After that I could do nothing else and here I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eduardo takes advantage of a halt in the music to talk with me. As a percussionist, he comes from the ranks of traditional Cuban music, the one with which Buena Vista Social Club created a musical Arcadia, where publics that were in the antipodes shook hands, be they neoliberals or communists, Jews or Muslims.<\/p>\n

The vocalist had the privilege of setting foot in Amor de Dios, one of the Madrid schools for the teaching of flamenco. There, as a listener during the lessons, he met Mar\u00eda Juncal, who has been in Cuba through the Comp\u00e1s Flamenco community project.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am thankful to that company for everything I now know,\u201d says the artist, who afterwards has tried singing other genres and \u201cthat flamenco lilt has always remained with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The genre is demanding every day. \u201cThe melisma, so varied, are very difficult,\u201d he admits, while he tries to create his own style, far from El Cigala or Camar\u00f3n. And let\u2019s not mention the vocal demands. \u201cYou have to brutally crack your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The De Roc\u00edo Company presents a particular format. A guitarist, three women dancers, the lead singer and percussion, and a female violinist, whose instrument acquires the category of exotic (or intruder) in this type of music that emerged, as we know, in the 18th century.<\/p>\n

A graduate from diverse musical academies, Aylen Mendoza knows how to play Bach, Beethoven and Paganini, as well as salsa, but she preferred flamenco, a genre that assimilates \u201cvery well the creativity the instrument can offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to add a bit of yourself to the classical themes of the genre, always respecting the folkloric base of each flamenco palo<\/em>,\u201d Mendoza explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the optional instruments have been adapted to flamenco based on fusions. For example, we play jazz. Everything is possible here,\u201d affirms Eduardo Betancourt, without a hint of boasting.<\/p>\n

Slight, quiet, discreet, it seems impossible that a 22-year-old girl like Marina Tremearde has significant strength in her legs as a dancer. Her stamping on the flamenco stage speaks of an unsuspected energy.<\/p>\n

She started off in Spanish dance when she was four years old, with no family tradition, except for a mother who wanted to please her small daughter and keep her busy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always liked Spanish dance, no other,\u201d she affirms without a shadow of a doubt. She has been a dancer with De Roc\u00edo for a year and she confesses that the command of the castanets has taken her almost a lifetime. \u201cYou have to practice with them every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marina affirms that \u201cwhile she has the strength, will and health\u201d she will continue dancing, and she specifies that of all the instruments, the caj\u00f3n<\/em> is the one that makes her vibrate with the most intensity. \u201cMy ear pays attention to the caj\u00f3n<\/em>,\u201d she reiterates.<\/p>\n

Visited by giants of the genre like Paco de Luc\u00eda, Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos, Cuba is a sanctuary for thousands of fans of the genre.<\/p>\n

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Festivals like the Imprint of Spain or professional companies like Lizt Alfonso Dance and the Ballet Espa\u00f1ol de Cuba, among others, and musicians like Raynier Mari\u00f1o, keep alive the flamenco scene in the middle of a Caribbean glazed by rhythms from all parts of the world.<\/p>\n

Although she speaks highly of the quality of the Cuban flamenco musicians, for Marina \u201cthe roots are the roots,\u201d alluding to the Spanish exponents who, however, as Eduardo bears witness to, say that some Cuban musicians are the same or better than the Spanish ones in terms of flamenco music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are amazed when they see us here, in the Mes\u00f3n, because they can\u2019t conceive that such a quality cante<\/em> can exist in Cuba. I can say that without thinking twice,\u201d and he adds a phrase that even if it is a set one is not less authentic: \u201cIt\u2019s in our blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eduardo gets ready for another palo<\/em>. He will include the classical L\u00e1grimas negras<\/em>, by Cuban Miguel Matamoros, with a flamenco rhythm, of course; some traditional Andalusian song by Jer\u00e9z, and he\u2019s thinking about a contemporary touch with Coraz\u00f3n part\u00edo<\/em>, by Sanz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest is up to what the public will tell us,\u201d the flamenco singer affirms, looking at the hardwood stage where the stamping of feet has almost sunk some of the boards, like beautiful scars. It\u2019s the passion that doesn\u2019t know how to pretend, anyone would say, including Lorca, of course!<\/p>\n

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