Ottmar Liebert’s explorations with his guitar have taken him from Germany to Santa Fe to many ther parts of the world. His work is in the adventurous style of new flamenco. You might expect adventures, but Liebert applying his trademark style and arranging skills to the work of — Bob Marley? Liebert says there is a natural connection. The flamenco rhythm called tangos has a lilt and a beat related to salsa and reggae, and he points out that it sounds very different from forms of flamenco. All three sorts of music, he thinks, have their roots in Africa, filtered in various ways through cultures and landscapes of Arbic lands and the Caribbean. These ideas are backdrop for the music on Liebert’s album Waiting n Swan.There’s clearly a master guitarist in the midst of exploration. The result is at once more filled with energy and more relaxed than you might think, as Liebert makes his way through No Woman No Cry, a reggae version of his own Barcelona Nights, and I Shot the Sherriff.