Niño de Elche

Available festival 2025 – Season 2025/2026
New album Cante a lo gitano – Trio
Album to be released in 2025 Raül Refree & Niño de Elche – Duo

Niño de Elche, one of the most innovative artists on the contemporary Spanish scene, like those with whom he collaborates (Israel Galvan, Angélica Liddell, Rocio Molina, Raül Refree), has always offered a fertile dialogue between Spanish tradition, the avant-garde and subversion.
With his new album, Flamenco, the man who provocatively denounces the conservatism inherent in flamenco by defending an experimental and moving art form is celebrating. Mausoleo de Celebración Amor y Muerte, an intimate ceremony of flamenco and its eternal renewal.
Flamenco is dead, long live flamenco!

“With the falsely funereal <em>Flamenco, mausoleo de celebración, amor y muerte</em>, he returns without warning to the source, voice, palmas, guitar, a few guests (Rocío Molina, Rosalía) but above all his voice, brutal, in the foreground. You don’t know which way to look at it, but it’s overwhelmingly beautiful”. Olivier Lamm, Liberation

“Niño De Elche is a radical and magnificently inspired artist. He scorns clichés, distrusts codes and questions the limits of cante flamenco”. Médiapart

“Niño de Elche is by turns a rustling forest, a mad horse, a stone slamming against a wall. New music, experimental and wildly poetic, labyrinthine and fluid. Télérama

“Niño de Elche, the man who bombed flamenco. El País

“A flamenco punk, a fabulous talent, monstrous in its expressiveness and vocal ferocity – murmurs, gasps and borborygms included.” Le Monde

“Niño de Elche, an artist out of the ordinary”. Le Monde Diplomatique

“The exceptional talent of Nino de Elche”. Ouest France

“A musical UFO: he doesn’t revisit the flamenco tradition, he literally explodes it by mixing it with a wide range of synthetic sounds, from krautrock to new wave and industrial rock. His elliptical lyrics are drawn from contemporary Spanish poetry, but he doesn’t stop there, multiplying mouthclaps, onomatopoeia and screams (…) Niño de Elche is in turn a rustling forest, a mad horse, a stone slamming against a wall. New music, experimental and wildly poetic, labyrinthine and fluid.” Télérama

NIÑO DE ELCHE is an unusual “cantaor” (flamenco singer). He is a multidisciplinary artist who combines the flamenco singing with performances, poetry, improvisation, minimalism, singer-songwriting, rock or electronics. He has published very diverse albums.

NIÑO DE ELCHE is a very versatile and active artist. He alternates his personal works with collaborations with unclassifiable art creators like curator Pedro G. Romero; he has worked with choreographers and dancers such as Juan Carlos Lérida, Israel Galván, Suzanne Heizenger or Matej Kejzar. He also collaborates with sound&video duo Los Voluble for Raverdial, a rave and flamenco show at Sonar 2015 with ravishing reviews. Recently he had an exhibition “Niño de Elche. Invisible Auto Sacramental. A sound performance of the Val del Omar 2020” at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid from 07/10/2020 to 27/04/2021. Two very beautiful collaborations with the choreographer Israel Galván in “Mellizo doble” at the Avignon festival and the cover of “Una costilla sobre la mesa” by Angelica Liddell. He is also published his last book “In memoriam. Posesiones de un exflamenco”.

Unclassifiable rupturist, NIÑO DE ELCHE sings because he wants, what he wants and however he wants, because he knows and because he can. He is a multidisciplinary artist who leaves the door open for art, polemics, singing, criticism and reflection.

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