Flamenkora

Volker, before we get into your music, I'd like to point out to people who are listening, before your show, coming up on October 1st, your music's been available on YouTube in a documentary you made.

Tell us more about that and who's in it.

Which

one?

The most recent one.

The one that reflects

this project.

Yes, so a dear friend, Ken Kenneth, who was introduced to a dear friend, Tina Heine, who... supported me in my work for many many years during the festival in Salzburg, introduced me to Ken and we just connected and since then Ken has been coming along documenting my projects and I invited him to come to Senegal and do the music video with Ali Boulus and Sisiko and then also then I thought like well when you're already in Africa we have to also bring Roberto and we did a music video in Dakar and he came to our concerts in Budapest and filmed that concert and he always comes along and does all the music videos which is for me very very helpful of course because before I had to hire a filmmaker someone and I had to cut it myself and it was so much work so I really have to thank Ken for all his support coming along and doing all this work and supporting my work and he came to Madrid to our residency where we recorded new music for the new album with Roberto and he documented also the process and tried to make people understand what we're doing and let Roberto explain what flamenco is and Ali, where he comes from.

He does really wonderful, amazing work.

And he also connected us to The Cut, also to Paul Manship Residency, which we did a year ago.

And right now, currently, we're actually staying at the residency for a couple of days, which is also really, really helpful.

And I have to thank them, Rebecca and the residency, to host us all the time and to give us the opportunity to come together and talk.

make music together because we are spread out in so many different parts in Madrid and Dakar and Paris and I live in New York.

So to come together is very special for us and very precious.

But it's also very beautiful to be so far apart because if we're coming together, we spend like our whole day is music.

We just spend time together.

We hang and we jam.

We write new music.

And it's not about like, oh, I come then and rehearse and we end.

No, it's just open end.

The

Manship Foundation is an amazing organization.

That location here in Cape Ann, I think it's just breathtaking.

It's such a wonderful place to be creative in.

Yes, it's magical, and the energy of all these artists working, creating there, it just inspires you to create new music.