I know as much about flamenco guitar as I do about cello music: next to nothing. So a combination of the two falls far outside my knowledge base. The musical pairing of Pedro Soler (guitar) and Gasper Claus (cello) instantly transfixed me though, perhaps because both artists take distinctly unorthodox approaches to their instruments. The album Barlande finds a father (Pedro) and son (Gasper) performing mostly improvised instrumental music and is produced by – and this is why I caught onto it in the first place – Bryce Dessner of the National. This live performance video from last summer captures the fragile beauty in every note. Someone with more of a flamenco (or classical) background could probably better explain makes this so spell-binding, but in lieu of that, though, I think this unusually-poetic YouTube comment puts it pretty well:

It started in the tips of my fingers. Then slowly, from the wrist up, the hairs on my arms rose.
From there it worked its way up to my shoulders, where it eventually met at my neck.
Once it hit my neck an indescribable shiver went down my spine.
It was slow. It was as if my ears where telling my body, “If only you could hear this.”
It was like trying to telling a deaf man what music sounds like and he understood.