In flamenco as in every art, historians, specialists and critics have progressively defined certain periods of reference which they have called the Golden Age.

The Golden Age of flamenco corresponds to the period running from the final third of the 19th century to the first third of the 20th century. This Golden Age refers mainly to cante and dance, since guitar would still take many years to establish its true value.

From this viewpoint, no singer or dancer today, apart from exceptional cases, could equal the quality, purity and creativity of those who in carrying flamenco to its peak, marked this Golden Age.

Since then, there has been a decline in the formal models of flamenco art as they were established in that Golden Age, with impoverishment, simplification, miscegenations and fusions, as well as a loss of the contents, sense and spirit which enlivened this art.

With Fernando Terremoto, the son of one of those mythical singers coming out of the Golden Age, and Alfredo Lagos, a young guitarist from Jerez, flamenco’s native land, Israel Galván clings to references tracking the normal approaches and shuns ‘Age’, just profiting from the ‘Gold’; present-day gold appearing before our very eyes, before our very feelings.