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Meeting Manitas

from 12 VOLT by BILLIE DAVIES

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02 - Meeting Manitas (Billie Davies)
The fierceness and pride of the independent gypsy... the melodrama, the passion, the love, that exudes from the guitar and from the dancer's movements and expressions, the rhythm of the hand clap, the wind, the sun, the rain, the thunder and the lightening, the heart beating passion of the human being.
In Montpellier, where I lived for about a year... the hand clapping of the young gypsies still sounds in my ears, I thought one of them said he was the son of Manitas Del Plata, little did I know they were to become The Gypsy Kings, surrounding my drums, inspired by Gypsy
Flamengo music, in the streets, an american Violinist, Robin, joining in and... Don Cherry, or was it Lester Bowie?, and his band stopping to listen to us do a Jazz Flamengo improvisation.

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from 12 VOLT, released October 10, 2013

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BILLIE DAVIES West Palm Beach, Florida

Billie Davies is a drummer and a composer best known for her free, instinctively avant-garde compositions since the mid- nineties, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the US. All of her music is improvisational, a conversation between musicians, inspired by a certain feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience. ... more

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