Some albums don't fade; some collaborations deserve revisiting
Treinta años después de que Enrique Morente y Lagartija Nick crearan Omega, un álbum que tendió puentes entre el flamenco, la poesía de Lorca y los versos de Leonard Cohen, su legado regresa al escenario de la mano de Kiki Morente y la banda granadina. El 3 de junio, en el festival Noches del Botánico de Madrid, comenzará una gira homenaje que recuerda que ciertas obras no pertenecen a su época, sino a todas.
- Treinta años de silencio escénico en torno a Omega terminan con un anuncio que ha despertado una expectación inmediata en el mundo musical español.
- La elección de Kiki Morente como intérprete crea una tensión emotiva singular: el hijo que hereda la voz del padre para revivir una obra que lo trasciende.
- Lagartija Nick, guardianes del sonido original, y Kiki trabajan para trasladar al directo una fusión que en su día desconcertó y fascinó a partes iguales.
- El concierto inaugural del festival Noches del Botánico el 3 de junio posiciona el homenaje como un acontecimiento cultural de primer orden, con entradas a 35 euros ya a la venta.
- La gira se perfila como un recorrido nacional con Granada como destino simbólico pendiente, la ciudad que late en el corazón del álbum original.
Treinta años después de su publicación, Omega —el álbum que en 1996 unió a Enrique Morente y Lagartija Nick en una conversación imposible entre el flamenco, la poesía de Federico García Lorca y las canciones de Leonard Cohen— regresa en forma de gira homenaje. Kiki Morente, hijo del cantaor, y la banda granadina serán los encargados de revisitar aquella obra que no pertenecía del todo a ninguna tradición, sino que las habitaba todas a la vez.
El proyecto arranca el 3 de junio en Madrid, donde el concierto abrirá el festival Noches del Botánico. No es un lugar menor: ser el acto inaugural de uno de los festivales de verano más relevantes del país dice mucho sobre el peso cultural que se le atribuye a esta celebración. Las entradas, a 35 euros, ya están disponibles.
La elección de Kiki tiene una lógica que va más allá de la sangre: él porta la sensibilidad de su padre hacia el presente, mientras Lagartija Nick custodia la arquitectura sonora del original. Juntos, la obra puede volver a respirar sin traicionarse. Ambos han expresado públicamente su entusiasmo, describiendo el proyecto como una historia que merece ser contada de nuevo.
Lo que sigue al estreno madrileño aún está por confirmar en su totalidad. Se espera que la gira recorra España, y hay una expectativa particular en torno a una fecha en Granada, ciudad raíz de ambos artistas y alma invisible del álbum. Por ahora, Madrid es el principio: la demostración de que algunas obras no se agotan, y de que el diálogo entre Lorca, Cohen y el flamenco sigue sin cerrarse.
Three decades after Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick released Omega, one of Spanish music's most consequential albums, the work is being honored with a full touring production. Kiki Morente, the singer's son, and Lagartija Nick—the Granada-based band that co-created the original record—will open the Noches del Botánico festival in Madrid on June 3rd with the first concert of what they're calling a tribute tour.
Omega arrived in 1996 as an ambitious fusion. Morente and Lagartija Nick, working with the label El Europeo Música, assembled a constellation of collaborators including flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo, singer Estrella Morente, and virtuoso Tomatito. The album took its literary spine from two sources: poems by Federico García Lorca, drawn from his collection Poet in New York, and songs by Leonard Cohen, the Canadian songwriter. The result was something that belonged fully to neither tradition—not quite flamenco, not quite art song, not quite rock—but rather a conversation between them, conducted in Spanish, rooted in Granada's particular musical inheritance.
Thirty years is a long time to wait before revisiting a work. But the announcement that Kiki Morente and Lagartija Nick would tour Omega together came with a sense of inevitability, as if the moment had simply arrived. Both parties expressed their enthusiasm on social media, describing their eagerness to tell this story again. The pairing makes intuitive sense: Kiki carries his father's voice and sensibility into the present; Lagartija Nick remains the custodians of the original vision.
The Madrid date, scheduled for June 3rd, will serve as the opening concert of the Noches del Botánico festival, which runs through June and July. Tickets are priced at 35 euros and are already available for purchase through the festival's website. This positioning—as the inaugural event of a major summer festival—signals the cultural weight the organizers place on the project.
What comes next remains partly unconfirmed. The tour is expected to travel across Spain, and there is particular anticipation around a Granada date, given that both Kiki and Lagartija Nick are rooted in that city. But for now, Madrid marks the beginning. The first concert will be a statement: that some albums don't fade, that some collaborations deserve to be revisited, and that the conversation between Lorca, Cohen, flamenco, and contemporary music remains unfinished.
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We had a lot of desire to tell this story— Kiki Morente and Lagartija Nick, via social media
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Why does an album from 1996 suddenly need a tour in 2026? What changed?
Nothing changed about the album itself. But the people who made it are different now. Enrique Morente is gone. His son Kiki is old enough to carry the work forward. Lagartija Nick has spent thirty years thinking about what they made. Sometimes you need distance to understand what you created.
The source material mentions Lorca and Leonard Cohen. That's an odd pairing for a flamenco project.
It's not really a flamenco project, though. It's a conversation. Lorca wrote about exile and desire in New York. Cohen wrote about the same things. Morente and Lagartija Nick found something in common between them—a way of singing about loss that works in Spanish, in Granada, with guitars that know both traditions.
Why would Kiki Morente be the right person to sing this now, rather than someone else?
Because he's his father's son. He grew up hearing these songs, these ideas. He's not trying to replace Enrique. He's continuing something that was always meant to be alive, meant to be sung again.
The article mentions Granada specifically—that a date there is expected but not confirmed. Why does that matter?
Granada is where this all comes from. It's not just geography. It's the place where Lorca was from, where Lagartija Nick is from, where Enrique Morente lived. A tour that doesn't return home isn't really a tour. It's a performance. The real test is whether they can bring it back to where it began.