Luis Delgado (born 16 July 1956 in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

) is a Spanish instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Delgado's work combines organic elements from Arab-

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a ...

n music, oriental and Medieval styles, with electronic elements from the avant-garde. He formed the electronic and industrial musical duo Mecánica Popular, with Eugenio Muñoz in 1978, the group Finis Africae with Javier Bergia and Juan Alberto Arteche in the mid-80s, and the folk group Babia with Arteche and Luis Paniagua. Delgado's later work includes ''El sueño de Al-Zaqqaq'' ''(The Dream of Al-Zaqqaq)'' (1998), which sets to music a collection of poems by

Ibn al-Zaqqaq Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq () (c. 1100 Valencia - 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids. He was a Muslim from Banu Lakhm. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet, Ibn Khafaja, and t ...

External links

11.09.19 interview on NTS radio

References

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