We are not so few. We are legion. At this moment there are thousands of fans who would exchange their shoes for ours. He told us that we would be, prínceps inter parís , since before the birth of his first album. That the recording would take place in a very special place, with people of your liking, art people. What will you say, what can you tell, if you just sing in your ear that soleá wonder that will appear on your record, in the middle of a sound test. I never missed my law , Alonso’s word, here you have me, here I am.

The place seems taken from the same shore of a romance dreamed by Antonio Mairena. At the top of the district of Los Alcores, peppered with centuries-old olive trees and palm trees, peacocks dance old family airs. It is the Huerta de la Paz (Vereda de San Agustín, Mairena del Alcor, Seville), witness of one hundred and one sones and experienced refuge of past recordings. From the same threshold one realizes, everything seems to be in place to collect the cantes in their right place, to cut and lengthen the thirds as appropriate. Pure art in the lungs, from the silver hair of its owner, the great painter, sculptor, ceramist, and even modeler of experiences, Antonino Parrilla , and the careless affection of his whole family. It is a spacious room, full of family memories, paintings and sculptures torn from its owner to form a space where there is only place for art, wood art, wood carving in the anteroom of singing.

Everything is designed to create the necessary conditions to make the elf or, as the case may be, your chat partner, the Angel . That one that does not come out even when we insist on calling him from the other side of the methacrylate of a recording studio to use. Or maybe, it does appear, but not because it’s called. Rancapino Chico knows this elusive entity well, his father Alonso has described it dozens of times. It will not be presented because you call it, no, no one knows how or when, but when it does not. I have called good people, people of art, my friends, father, yours, those whom I admire from the depths of my artistic conscience. Those I love, my little ones, the gypsies, those who are not, our friends, the press, who are the ones who help us to be where we are.

My palmeros, the best of Jerez, here by my side: Manuel Cantarote , José Rubichi , the great Manuel Pantoja Carpio Chicharito . A gale or a breeze, how you want them, always in time, of course. Deaf palms, redoubling, mishap, missing terminology to describe how these three pairs of hands are coupled to carry their captain in the air.

What do you bring on guitar? Half our readers already knew, Antonio Higuero , of Jerez de la Frontera, the faithful companion of Alonso, indefatigable squire in a thousand contests for our geography. Antonio’s sonanta sounds, and you do not find a better place to stay and live, that’s not new, I already heard you say, what do you want, if it’s the truth. And the best kept surprise, we have the guitar of Paco León , of the Port of Santa María, twenty-seven years old, my mother, if it does not fit even five years for a rope, and it seems, no, it does not look like it, that he is already a master of the accompaniment. Y Diego Magallanes , that when he accompanies you to the piano and you never want to go home alone.

Now I tell you the good, wait, see who is coming, the teachers arrive, those who have made me grow with their wisdom and the admiration that I have for them, the great Juanito Villar , tears like chickpeas fell down his face listening to tangos to his nephew, Antonio Cortés Chiquetete , Vicente Soto Deafness , Nano from Jerez … Companions of our time, like the malagueña cantaora Antonia Contreras , and I could not forget the press, picha you are in everything, from the great Manuel Bohórquez or the famous Carlos Herrera , to the companions David Montes, María Larroca, Luis Ybarra or Juan Garrido , partner of ExpoFlamenco.

For the rest, nothing could go wrong. They acted as hosts Domi Serralbo Gamero , artistic producer, on whose shoulders rests the responsibility that everything is ready in the improvised recording studio; YAlmudena de la Maza , executive producer and authentic financial support of the project.

Alonso Rancapino Núñez intends to do something that nobody, as far as we know, has done. A triple carom involving the recording of a debut , during a private recital in the company of a chosen few: cabales, artists and friends, mainly, articulated in three sessions in three consecutive days; and the filming of a documentary video about the development of these sessions, which has to coexist with the needs of acoustics or live performance. Curling the curl from the first minute.

The cantes, the interpretation, the spiky hair, the cardinals after each pinch, remain for those who were there. For you the final product, the reason for all this: a cante jondo album that will remain forever in the memory of the good fans.