FlamenKora

Jazz trumpeter Volker Goetze has always been open to inspiration and influences from other genres and art forms. After his performance with a flamenco guitarist in 2019 he listened more to the music of Enrique Vargas during lockdown and “flamenco became his obsession” as he recalls. In 2021, whilst recording a duo album with kora master Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko in Paris, he noticed how perfectly flamenco and African scales and phrasing harmonise with one another. He got Cissoko and guitarist Roberto Monteiro together and FlamenKora – the magical fusion of West African Mande music on the kora and authentic Spanish flamenco guitar and American-European jazz trumpet – was born.