Perrate - Three knocks

With Tomás de Perrate, this attribute, that of radical flamenco artists, takes on its deepest meaning. They are not only radical because of the extreme form of their artistic proposals, they also go to the roots, they know or are literally roots. You already know the truth told by José Bergamín: “Searching for roots is the subterranean form that aerial wandering takes on.” Bergamín is not relativizing the underground endeavor, rather he is highlighting what escape, straying, getting lost in the fields of meaning and the signifier mean.

Tres golpes is Perrate's radical commitment to the present of his surname. Perrate has the original meaning of "pure," which is not something that has to do with blood, tradition or lineage. Pure has to do with form. Talking about hybridization in flamenco is always redundant. The soleá de Triana and the seguiriyas cabales are hybrids without ceasing to have a well-defined form. Even the formless can be pure.

Tres golpes has that, three glances of the knuckles of the hand on the song, the tradition and the form. «Tres golpees» is a street fandango by Los gaiteros de San Jacinto, a Colombian group in the tradition of African music brought by slaves and many freedmen from the Pacific area. For Perrate it is also a proclamation, something that orders the different formalizations that are achieved in this work.