This is another superb album from Maestro Vicente, but I admit to being a great aficionado of Vicente's work. But since Paco de Lucía called Vicente his most likely successor, and Pat Matheny called him the greatest guitarist in the world, I'm not in bad company. In this album, which debuted January 18 at the prestigious international Celtic Connections 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland, Vicente is joined by Michael McGoldrick on whistle, pipes and flutes, John McCusker on fiddle and Danny Cummings on drums and percussion, all from the band of Dire Strait's Mark Knopfler; and Ewan Vernal on bass and Donald Shaw on accordion from the Gaelic folk band Capercaillie.As you might guess, this is not an album for flamenco purists, but its fusion of flamenco and Celtic music is both irresistible and seductive - and it took a musician of the stature of Vicente Amigo to pull it off. There's nothing like hearing top-tier Celtic musicians weaving aural knots por bulerías or pouring a bit of smoky, peaty whiskey over a rumba. (Now that's what I call salsa.) There's also the expected Vicente bolero, this one dedicated to his parents, and Vicente sings on some of the cuts as well.This fusion of flamenco and Celtic music is, however, not so far afield as one might assume at first glance. The first layer of civilization in Spain's richly stratified cultural history was what historians have named Celt-Iberian. This was followed by the successive contributions of Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths - and the Arabs, Berbers, and other Africans which composed the nine centuries of Muslim habitation. Sprinkled on top like spice are the contributions of the Gypsies and the bits of Latin America brought back to Spain in the last five centuries, all of which ultimately produced what is known as flamenco - itself consequently a quintessentially fusion art form, one of the greatest of them all. Vicente has thus in a sense brought flamenco full circle in joining his art with these latter-day Celts, a circle which can justly be called magical after listening to this album.All in all, just the album to play on a beautiful afternoon cruising with the top down, and it's got Grammy Awards written all over it. The question is, however, in what category? World Music at the regular Grammy's? Flamenco at the Latin Grammies? This album transcends them all, and we're all the better for it. Bravo - and Olé - Vicente, and kudos to every artist on this album.