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Composing songs about love and solitude, loss and sadness, fury and ecstasy, with considerable musical virtuosity amongst their ranks, the Arrebato Ensemble has collaborated over three years to make this exquisite recording possible.
Comprised of: Greg Alfonzetti (flamenco guitar), Damian de Boos-Smith (cello, guitars and mandolin), Dave Ellis (double bass), Lloyd G (percussion) and Andrew Poniris (saxophones and harmonica), the finished album includes many memorable solos and atmospheric moments. Arrebato rarely used Spanish word meaning sudden and intensive burst of emotion, a feeling of fury or ecstasy is apt in describing the ensemble original music composed by Greg Alfonzetti and Damien DeBoos-Smith.
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Lloyd Bradford (Brad) Syke, Australian Stage Online
(The) Vanguard is the best of venues. And the worst. It’s the best, if you have the obsessive-compulsive, anal-retentive foresight to get there when it opens, to secure a seat, in the narr...more |
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Phil Vendy, Fine Music 2MBS FM
It is amazing sometimes, how wrong you can be about a CD. The idea of reviewing eight tracks of contemporary Spanish flamenco did not exactly beckon me, but how rewarding it turned out to be! Gr...more |
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Anthony Clarke, Limelight
Arrebato, headed by Australian guitarist Greg Alfonzetti, pursue a traditional line of flamenco-fusion, with jazz the main explorative medium, but within a very solid flamenco structure. Greg Al...more |
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Fiona Cameron, Drum Media
Tucked away in the cosy basement of a bar down a Kings Cross side street, Arrebato somehow managed to fit six musicians and all of their instruments onto a tiny stage where the prime real estate...more |
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John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald
No matter how far Sydney flamenco guitarist Greg Alfonzetti moves from pure flamenco in favour of a contemporary style, the sprit, a dramatic, sexually charged and haughty sadness r...more |
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