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dpalfstad
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 RE: Singer recommendations? (in reply to HolyEvil)
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LMAO Doitsujin!
When I started listening to Flamenco, about a year and a half ago, I thought that I would never be able to appreciate the singing. It sounded like shouting and noise to my American/Westernized ears. However, the more I listened to it, the more I seem to have acquired a taste for it. A little at a time I feel like I am "getting" Flamenco, and it has become like a drug addiction to me. As I have said before, when I am listening to Flamenco it is almost euphoric, and when I am not listening to it I am thinking about it and wishing I was. I just finished my first semester of Spanish and every now and then I can pick out a word or two, but I certainly have no idea what they are singing, for the most part. I often muse that I can literally go a couple weeks at a time listening to music and never understanding the lyric of any of it!
FWIW, I really like El Pele, Enrique Morente, and I think that Estrella Morente's voice is like heaven!
I love Vicente Amigo and I really like his CD with El Pele called "Canto". Also, despite not getting rave reviews from hardcore traditional Flamenco connoisseurs, Vicente's latest CD, Paseo de Gracia, has some great singing on it, in my opinion.
Dave
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Date May 23 2010 7:11:03
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NormanKliman
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RE: Singer recommendations? (in reply to HolyEvil)
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Hi GJ, I'm glad you brought that up because my list focuses on artists who are closely associated with the area between Cádiz and Seville. Of course, it's all just music and this is just my opinion, but the reason for the bias is that I place more importance on certain cantes and the kinds of singers who excel in those cantes: tonás, siguiriyas, soleás, bulerías por soleá, bulerías, cantiñas, and probably a few more. What's left are the fandango-based cantes (fandangos, malagueñas, granaínas, cantes mineros and cantes abandolaos), the "ida y vuelta" cantes (guajiras, milonga, vidalita, rumba), and others (garrotín, farruca, etc.) Of course, it wouldn't be flamenco without all the different cantes, but I think the first group I mentioned is a little closer to the core than the others.
The "contemporary" category of my list has little to do with contemporary flamenco, other than the fact that the artists I named are still singing the same old cantes.
Of the artists mentioned so far, the only ones I might include on the list are Rafael Romero and Manuel Sordera.
A better approach would be to list the best artists in each style of cante.
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Date May 23 2010 9:30:39
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