Flamenco contains all the human emotions. It is a tripartite artistic expression — laying down its own gauntlet with dance, guitar and vocal style. Visually its speed, its twists, its concentrated ...

The Castanets is Ray Raposa, a San Diego native whose album City of Refuge is an exercise in solitude. Raposa recorded the album in Overton, Nevada, a two-bar town ...

Joseph Haydn: String quartets opp. 3/5 "Serenade" & 74/3 "Horseman". Luigi Boccherini: Guitar quintet no.4 in D "Fandango"; La musica noturna delle strade di Madrid. String quintet op. 30/6 in C, ...

Guitarist Manuel Barrueco joins the Cuarteto Casals in the Luigi Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D major, on February 13, 2017 at Caruth Auditorium, SMU. (Photo: Scott Cantrell) So far as anyone knows ...

After his Castanets project vanished off the map in 2009, Raymond Raposa brings the experimental folk project back for another go-round. Decimation Blues is a fragmented album that trends toward the ...

Flamenco is passion, humanity and dramatic choreography. It is fire ballet. It is life’s glorious moments and grand heartaches. To dance it you must be disciplined and able to do intricate footwork as ...

Castanets' Raymond Raposa has never shied from mortality. His folk-electronic hybrids have often romanticized death, which isn't the same thing as honoring it. But for City of Refuge -- which is ...