Lara Bello at The Falcon

“Sikame” draws on flamenco, Latin American folk and North African music, often landing somewhere between lament and reverie. Think of Buika and Joanna Newsom at play together at a very high altitude. - The New York Times

Lara Bello conveys the music of her hometown - Granada, Spain - flamenco, Arabic melodies and Mediterranean roots masterfully fused with African and Latin American rhythms.
She has performed extensively around the word with her band, playing at prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC (selected by the Embassy of Spain as Best Spanish Artist in the European Month of the City, 2014), Auditorium of The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada), Auditorio Radio IMER (México DF), Beijing Ninegates Festival (National Library of Beijing, China) as well as concerts in Colombia, Japan, New York, Germany and at The Damascus International Jazz Festival 2010, just a few months before the Syrian conflict began....

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“Sikame” draws on flamenco, Latin American folk and North African music, often landing somewhere between lament and reverie. Think of Buika and Joanna Newsom at play together at a very high altitude. - The New York Times

Lara Bello conveys the music of her hometown - Granada, Spain - flamenco, Arabic melodies and Mediterranean roots masterfully fused with African and Latin American rhythms.
She has performed extensively around the word with her band, playing at prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC (selected by the Embassy of Spain as Best Spanish Artist in the European Month of the City, 2014), Auditorium of The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada), Auditorio Radio IMER (México DF), Beijing Ninegates Festival (National Library of Beijing, China) as well as concerts in Colombia, Japan, New York, Germany and at The Damascus International Jazz Festival 2010, just a few months before the Syrian conflict began.
Bello presents a new album "Sikame", featuring highly esteemed musicians from New York and Spain including Richard Bona, Lionel Loueke, Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent, among others. The album has been meticulously produced by renowned arranger and composer, Gil Goldstein.
"Sikame" has been notably packaged by BIBLIOFOLIO - a two-sided, 20-panel origami-inspired medium, bursting with vibrant artwork and liner notes; Made of FSC-certified, robust paper, hand-folded and printed using plant-based inks - the first one of its kind!

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