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This is just great playing. Go to 2.49. The guitar licks are spot on. Old school, but hey! fine fine playing. Observe the young Juan Martin with the frilly shirt in the background dishing up some fine palmas.( )
I love Paco Pena - it may be Old School flamenco but it's played with such refinement and mastery & he always exudes a dignified grace and calm. He's underrated in my opinion.
Man! Paco Pena is AMAZING! He has one of the best techniques (considering he plays in the traditional position) and sounds EVER! I think that no other flamenco guitarist who plays in the traditional position can beat him. Superb tresillos! Superb tremolo (not in this piece, but check some of his other videos)! Really just great!
Man! Paco Pena is AMAZING! He has one of the best techniques
I'd agree Ramzi, A lot of folk think Paco Peña plays fairy "simple" and "traditional" stuff, but he is very precise and very Flamenco and brings to light the sound of the very best mature players he grew up with IMO.
His attack and phrasing is always just spot on and his technique just text book!
He never "flaunts" or makes any kind of showcase out of his rasgueados, but IMO they are about the best in the business!
Thanks for posting the Soleares. The no-nonsense classicality of his approach, the 'crispness' of his playing, the textbook perfect rasgueados & tremolos make me want to get 'back to basics' and polish up my technique...
Hmm, "Old School" flamenco, don't we have another forum for that.......
i think the "other" forum is for so-called "old school" flamenco ONLY, but my understanding is that this forum is for ALL flamenco, old school, new school, or in my case, "no school" flamenco
and anyway, the so-called "new school" is now the "old school", the so-called "old school" is now pre-historic, there's a new new school, and...er...confused? i think trying to draw lines in the sand is bound to bring that on.
i noticed on a paco pena cd from the late eighties that he was playing some paco de lucia style things from the early seventies, (i think there was a thread on the old school foro about how sad it was that paco pena had gone "nuevo"! ) so is he "old school" or "new school"? not that i'm really bothered either way....
Don't know about 'Old School', this immaculately played Bulerias by Paco Pena is very lively & sounds pretty modern to my ears!
that's great, i took some of those falseta's off one of his cd's a while back, good to see them played....
and yeah, to someone who started listening to flamenco in the 50's or 60's it probably does sound "modern" but compared to what's coming out new now, it probably sounds "old", it's all relative.... i don't care what label gets stuck on it, i like it all anyway
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