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RE: Paco de Lucia - live in Moscow, ... (in reply to Rain

thanks for posting!
his band always plays with so much joy and energy.

btw he still is doing his "cositas buenas" tour?

(the other parts are also great)
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RE: Paco de Lucia - live in Moscow, ... (in reply to Rain

this is the interview after the concert, and its possible to let youtube translate the russian subtitles, if cant you speak russian or spanish!
i love youtube!
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Nice new guitar. What make is it?


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Nice new guitar. What make is it?



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Nice new guitar. What make is it?



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RE: Paco de Lucia - live in Moscow, ... (in reply to yohan

(IN SPANISH)

Paco: ¿Cómo estás Kiri?

Periodista: Muchas gracias por tu música excelente.

Paco: Gracias.

Periodista: Muchísimas gracias.

Periodista: Tengo tres preguntas y voy a empezar de la última. Sobre tus planes para el futuro, ¿qué quieres realizar más en tu vida artística: grabar un nuevo disco o experimentar con algunos músicos de otra manera de ejecutar (...)?

Paco: A mi edad ya no se piensa en el futuro. Se piensa en el presente, aquí y ahora, y aprovechar los minutos o las horas o los meses o los años que le queden a uno. Yo estoy... Me gusta mucho componer. Me gusta mucho tocar la guitarra. Me gusta menos el escenario ya. Me gusta más estar en casa, componer y hacer el disco. Y ¿cuál era la otra pregunta?

Periodista: La segunda pregunta es... Lo flamenco puro, es la música nacional de Andalucía, y ahora, gracias a Paco de Lucía, lo ejecutan, lo cantan, lo bailan, en todo el mundo. Para tú mismo, ¿lo flamenco es la música más nacional o ya universal? ¿Ya... les... eh..., la música universal?

Paco: Sí, el flamenco era la música de Andalucía, y pues ahora, en España se abrió al resto de España. Porque no toda España hace flamenco. Y sobre todo se ha abierto al mundo, y en cualquier ciudad del mundo a la que viajo ahora, ya hay una comunidad, un grupo, de músicos flamencos, y de bailaoras y bailaores, guitarristas, y pues es muy agradable porque yo he colaborado para eso, y es la satisfacción más grande que yo pueda tener como músico. No mi éxito personal sino el éxito del flamenco en general en el mundo.

Periodista: Y la tercera pregunta es: ¿Sabe algo sobre la guitarra rusa, la guitarra de siete cuerdas? Eso sería magnífico...

Paco: Sí, suena muy bonita. Suena muy bonita esa guitarra. Sí, y los instrumentos y la música rusa. Hay compositores maravillosos en Rusia. Hay compositores buenos porque tienen un folclore rico. Y hay compositores clásicos muy buenos por eso, justamente, porque tienen un folclore muy rico en Rusia.

Periodista:¿(...) en la guitarra de siete cuerdas?

Paco: No (...)

Periodista: Pero, ¿quiere?

Paco:¿Que si quiero tocar?

Periodista: Sí.

Paco: Yo no quiero tocar ninguna guitarra (risas), ni la de siete ni la de seis, ninguna. La guitarra es muy difícil. Es mucho esfuerzo el que se hace. Yo, cuando termino de tocar, me duele hasta aquí (señala el paladar). ¡Me duele de todo! La guitarra es muy complicada. Me encanta, es... yo... es mi pasión. Pero, a la vez, es la que me mata. Mucha responsabilidad. Siempre tienes que estar brillante. Y eso, pues, es difícil de sobrellevar.

Periodista: Muchísimas gracias (...)

Paco: Encantado.

Periodista: Las canciones, ¿son de quién?

Paco: Mías. ¿Cómo canciones?

Periodista: En el sentido de canciones...

Paco: No existe ese estilo de canción. Existe un cante, o un toque, o un baile, que se llama un ritmo: bulería, o soleá, o siguiriya, o rumba, o tangos, o... Hay muchos ritmos en el flamenco, y le ponemos un nombre para el disco. A lo mejor es una bulería que se llama, pues, La Cañada, o... Pero, pero la... No hay canciones. Ahí son letras cortitas, o falsetas cortitas. En la guitarra hay falsetas, en la voz son letras muy cortas, que pueden durar 15 segundos, 20 segundos. Y eso, dentro del ritmo, muchas letras. Cada día una distinta, una falseta distinta. Así funciona el flamenco.

Periodista: ¿(....) para la música?

Paco: Sí. Hay un ritmo allí. Ahí nos quedamos y nos subimos en ese ritmo, y ahí empezamos a hacer cosas.

Periodista: Muchísimas gracias señor.

Paco: Encantado.

Periodista: Muchísimas gracias.

(IN ENGLISH)

Paco: Hey Kiri.

Journalist: Thanks for your excellent music.

Paco: Thank you.

Journalist: Thank you very much.

Journalist: I’ve got three questions and I’m going to start with the last one. About your plans for the future, what interests you more: making a new recording or experimenting with other musicians with other playing styles?

Paco: At my age, you stop thinking about the future. You think about the present, the here and the now, and you make full use of the minutes, hours, months or years that you’ve got left. I enjoy composing and I enjoy playing the guitar, but I get less enjoyment now from playing onstage. I like to be at home, composing and making a recording. What was the other question?

Journalist: The second question is: “Flamenco puro” is the national music of Andalusia, and now, thanks to Paco de Lucía, it is played, sung and danced all over the world. In your opinion, is flamenco a more domestic kind of music or is it universal?

Paco: Yeah, flamenco was the music of Andalusia, and now, in Spain, it opened up to the rest of Spain, because flamenco isn’t found in all parts of Spain. What’s especially important is that it has opened up to the world, and, in any of the cities that I travel to nowadays, there is a community or group of flamenco musicians, dancers and guitarists. It’s very nice to see that because I’ve helped to make that happen. As a musician, it’s the greatest possible satisfaction for me. Not my own success but the overall worldwide success of flamenco.

Journalist: The third question is if you know about the Russian seven-string guitar. That would be wonderful...

Paco: Yeah, those guitars sound beautiful. Yeah, and Russian instruments and music. There are excellent composers in Russia. There are excellent composers because their folklore is rich, and there are very good classical composers precisely for that same reason: because Russian folklore is rich.

Journalist: (...) on a seven-string guitar?

Paco: No.

Journalist: But do you want to?

Paco: Do I want to play the guitar?

Journalist: Yes.

Paco: I don’t want to play any kind of guitar (laughs): not a seven-string, not a six-string, none of them! The guitar is a very demanding instrument. It requires a lot of effort. When I finish playing, it even hurts here (points to roof of mouth). I hurt all over! The guitar is very difficult. I love it; it’s my passion. But, at the same time, it’s killing me. There’s a lot of responsibility. You always have to be brilliant, and that’s not an easy thing to do all the time.

Journalist: Thank you very much.

Paco: My pleasure.

Journalist: Whose songs are those?

Paco: Mine. What do you mean “songs”?

Journalist: In the sense of “songs”....

Paco: There aren’t songs like that in flamenco. There’s singing, or guitar playing, or dancing, which are named after a rhythm: bulería, soleá, siguiriya, rumba, tangos, etc. Flamenco has many different rhythms, and we choose a name for the recording. For example, it might be a bulería called “La Cañada” but there aren’t songs. There are short verse or short falsetas. The guitar has falsetas and the singing uses very short verse that might last 15 or 20 seconds. That takes place over the rhythm, and many verse are sung. Every day a different verse or falseta. That’s how flamenco works.

Journalist: (...) for the music?

Paco: Yeah, there’s a rhythm there. We agree on an idea, we get the rhythm going, and we start doing things.

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Arash

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RE: Paco de Lucia - live in Moscow, ... (in reply to NormanKliman

Thanks Norman.

I had to laugh out loud while reading.

I hope Paco never says "Hey Kiri" to an Iranian.

That means "Hey D!ckhead"

Kir (without "i" at the end) means Penis btw.

It is written and spelled exactly like this (kiri)

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The guitar is a very demanding instrument. It requires a lot of effort. When I finish playing, it even hurts here (points to roof of mouth). I hurt all over!


What was he thinking? Is that the spanish way of showing you have headache??

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Ha, that's funny Arash. Good idea for a press conference on April Fool's day.

Deniz, as Les Luthiers used to say: Let us analyze the joke. I think he wanted to mention some small isolated part of his body that ends up hurting after playing the guitar. It's not actually a way of referring to a headache, nor have I seen or heard of that specific gesture being used that way in Spanish, but I suppose he was exaggerating for heightened comic effect. I invite you to chuckle heartily.

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Hm ok. I could have shown him some funnier parts to point at if he wanted a comic effect
Poor guy i guess in every country he is, he gets asked if he plays whatever the national instrument and music is there.

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Poor guy i guess in every country he is, he gets asked if he plays whatever the national instrument and music is there.


Ha, I bet you're right. He's also used as a reference for virtuoso musicians in Spanish. This guy is sometimes referred to as "the Paco de Lucía of the bagpipes." Always seemed like a strange comparison to me.

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RE: Paco de Lucia - live in Moscow, ... (in reply to Rain

Strange, in russian it sounded like he said "I've got it all up to here".

Could that be more accurate, or does he refer to how painful the practice is?

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