Mixed traditions at World Music Awards
By Nick Kimberley, Evening Standard 31.07.08

"For dancing, nothing equalled the exuberance of Spain's Son de la Frontera. Their music sticks close to flamenco tradition, although Cuban guitar, less percussive than Spanish, produces a gentler inflection. The dancing, with amplified foot-stamping and virtuoso hand-clapping, had an equine grace, while the singing came from some deep well of anguish." (link)

Ivan Hewett reviews Prom 17 - a World Music celebration

"things dramatically improved with Son de la Frontera, a fabulous flamenco group. All it took was one phrase from singer Moi de Morón, defiantly uningratiating and rasping, to know this was the real deal. The guitar playing from Raúl Rodríguez and Paco de Amoparo was similarly spell-binding. That raised my spirits." (link)

Prom 17: World Music Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London
Reviewed by Tim Cumming
Friday, 1 August 2008

"Sons de la Frontera, the flamenco group from southern Spain, took us to the first interval, singer Moi de Moró*opening with a powerful solo bulería. Their music's marriage of north African with Mediterranean and Caribbean forces saw group founder Raúl Rodriguez duelling and weaving on the double-stringed Cuban tres guitar with guitarist Paco de Amparo. But it was the show-stopping flamenco dance of Pepe Torres that made "Solea de Pepe" the highlight of their set, the hand dancers slowly heating the music to the point where Torres stepped to the square of shiny floor brought to the stage with them, and executed a remarkable performance." (link)