6/30/2023 0 Comments Lorca cohen![]() ![]() ![]() He also discovered video of the sessions, that were used in the documentary. ![]() Arias has spent the last seven years working with the masters of the Omega sessions to refine the original tracks and prepare previously unheard ones for release. José Sanchez-Montes, the director of the Omega documentary, was aided in the making of the film by a diary kept by Lagartija Nick’s Antonio Arias, who detailed every day of the recording. Also present was Morente’s wife, dancer Aurora Carbonell, and his son Kiki, a singer and guitarist, who was in elementary school at the time. Estrella Morente, who has since performed on global stages including Carnegie Hall, made her impactful debut on the album, as did his younger daughter, Solea. Morente and Lagartija Nick were joined in the studio by Spanish flamenco artists who included the renowned guitarist Tomatito. Fittingly, the poems in Lorca’s work, A Poet in New York, served as a departure point for songs on Omega. Cohen, who has said he first read Lorca in 1949, named his daughter for the poet. ![]() “Leonard Cohen led me to Lorca,” Morente, who died in 2010, explains in an interview in the film. ![]()
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