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Paco's Top Buleria?
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Mark2
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From: San Francisco
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 RE: Paco's Top Buleria? (in reply to flamencoguru)
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I have Nino Miguel's CD and he is/was a great player, very very similiar to Paco. I wondered if perhaps he developed at the same time as Paco, but Brook Zern, who is an expert on flamenco recordings amoung other things, informed me that Miguel's album was released later than Paco, which meant that Nino could have copped his whole gig from Paco. Nino's stuff is so similar that he had to have basically rewritten much of Paco's early material, however, there are other things, such as Nino's sevillanas, some of his bulerias, some of his solea, that are totaly original and truly great. His technique is not as strong as Paco's, IMO, and I don't see how Paco could ever have been "afraid", except for the fact that Nino is gipsy, which in certain cirlces elevated him above Paco as a flamenco.
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Date Oct. 11 2004 18:33:41
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Jamey
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From: Winnipeg, Canada
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RE: Paco's Top Buleria? (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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I think Paco's tone is all about clarity. His attack, precision, and strength make for a percussive or machine-like quality, almost like a snare drum instead of a guitar. In my opinion his technique is transcendental in that it really stands alone in these matters, head and shoulders above everyone else. That doesn't mean that his tone is the most pleasing in its intrinsic qualities. I too, like Pepe Habichuela's tone, so earthy, so human. But Paco is like a force of nature. When you slow down his scales, even the real fast ones sound clean at 1/4 the speed. That's amazing.
Yeah I realize that. As I said, I appreciate his ability and the magnitude of his contributions. Nobody can even begin to dispute PdL's position as simply better/more accomplished than everybody else. Some of the techniques and arrangements he's done over the years are so evolved and complicated that VERY few players can even approach the pieces. Say nothing of his ability to create all of this complication yet be unfailingly rooted in compas. The only time PdL sounds sloppy or slurred is when he DECIDES to be intentionally for effect. That's simply incredible. PdL is the measure by which all others are compared.
All that said, I still like to listen to other players as a musical preference.
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Date Oct. 14 2004 15:36:30
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Almoraima has a clear intro-middle section-break-ending etc.. 
Have any of you thought of it? 
And i don´t know what happened. 
