by Craig HarrisA trio, featuring brothers Antonio and Juan Miguel Carmona and their cousin, Juan Carmona, Ketama is one of the leading groups of the new flamenco movement. Since releasing their self-titled debut album in 1985, the trio has directed the evolution of flamenco as a world-savvy music. In addition to their own albums, which fuse flamenco with salsa, Brazilian, reggae, pop, funk, jazz, and hip-hop influences, Ketama has collaborated on two albums — Songhai and Songhai 2 — with Malian multi-instrumentalist Toumani Diabate. Describing Ketamas sound, Folk Roots wrote, harmonies masterful....melodies exquisite....pace and timing deeply satisfying....reaching points of the brain/body most music snoozes past. The three members of Ketama represent the fourth generation of a musical family that traces back to guitarist Ico Habichuela. The trios name recalls when they rehearsed in a chicken yard for nightly performances as house-ba...