Planeta Jondo
Ingrávido 5.1
DATE & TIME
Sat. June 27TH, 10:30pm
LOCATION
Tablao Flamenco ABQ
About
Ingrávido 5.1
Ingrávido 5.1 is the current concert program by Planeta Jondo, an Andalusian ensemble formed in Huelva whose work moves between flamenco inheritance and compositional experimentation. Anchored in their recording Ingrávido—created with notable collaborations including Carmen Linares, Arcángel, and Jorge Pardo—the stage version is conceived as a continuous listening environment rather than a “set of hits”: a sequence of pieces that repeatedly recalibrates what carries the center of gravity—voice, guitar, wind line, hand percussion, or the drum/bass foundation.
The group’s method is structural. They introduce new colors not as ornament but as tools for form-making: flute and harmonica can double or contradict the cante; keyboards can open harmonic space; percussion articulates both groove and silence. Against that expanded palette, flamenco remains legible through compás and through the presence of recognizable palos. The repertoire includes original lyrics and arrangements that treat tradition as a working resource—something to be handled, re-voiced, and placed in new acoustic relationships.
Ingrávido was refined with guidance from the Flamenco Lab Paco de Lucía initiative (Fundación Música Creativa and Fundación Paco de Lucía), including mentoring focused on staging and on electronic-based arrangements. The result is a concert whose dramaturgy is musical: tension and release are built through density, timbre, and spacing. Audiences hear an ensemble thinking in real time—how a wind phrase answers a sung line, how rhythm tightens or thins, how the group decides when to fill the room and when to leave it open. The title’s “weightlessness” becomes perceptible when the ensemble lets sound hover—when a line hangs in the air, when the pulse thins, and when the music returns to earth with renewed definition.
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Planeta Jondo hace un flamenco original, contemporáneo. (Planeta Jondo creates an original, contemporary flamenco.)
Jorge Pardó
Photo: Pepo Herrera
About
Planeta Jondo
Planeta Jondo is an Andalucian flamenco ensemble from Huelva that began to take shape in late 2014, when its members met while creating a production for the Luna de Verano festival in Moguer. The project was presented officially in 2015 alongside a selftitled EP, and the group has since appeared in a wide range of festivals and venues, including Canal Sur’s Foro Flamenco, the Centro de Arte Flamenco La Merced in Cádiz, Café Berlín in Madrid, and cultural programming in Córdoba and Málaga.
Across its work, Planeta Jondo approaches flamenco as a living musical system: guitar and cante remain central, while the ensemble broadens the palette through winds (flute and harmonica), keyboards, percussion, and drum/bass foundations. This expanded instrumentarium supports original compositions and lyrics that move between established palos and newly designed textures, allowing “past” and “present” to be heard as part of the same rhythmic language.
The group’s current stage project, Ingrávido, has been developed in dialogue with the Flamenco Lab Paco de Lucía initiative (Fundación Música Creativa and Fundación Paco de Lucía), receiving mentoring on staging and arrangements. The Ingrávido recording also includes high-profile collaborations, among them Carmen Linares, Arcángel, and Jorge Pardo—artists whose presence underscores the project’s standing within the contemporary flamenco field.
Photo: Pepo Herrera