The Story
Ojos de Brujo — 'eyes of the sorcerer' — grew out of Barcelona's late-'90s street-jam scene: a collective, not a band, mixing flamenco and rumba catalana with hip-hop turntablism and electronics. They called the blend 'jipjop flamenkillo', and nobody else sounded like it.
After friction with the industry over their debut Vengue, they founded their own label, La Fábrica de Colores, and self-released Barí (2002) — which went on to sell over 100,000 copies with no major behind it. The follow-up Techarí (2006) won the Latin Grammy for Best Flamenco Album in 2007, and the collective took the Europe prize at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2004.
Aocaná (2009) and the ten-year celebration Corriente Vital (2010) closed the arc; the group announced its farewell in 2011 and played its last regular shows in 2012. Members carried the fire onward — vocalist Marina 'Marinah' Abad solo, others in La Nave Bruja and Lenacay.
Their catalog remains a blueprint for what city flamenco could be: proudly Catalan, globally wired, and owned by the people who made it.