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Miguel de Maria

Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ

Serranito ole!

Just got a couple albums in the mail: Serranito's "Virtuoismo de Flamenco Guitar" (or something like that), and a double album of Paco Pena "Fabulous Flamenco!" The Paco Pena album is hilarious, preserving the graphics of the LP--the 70's were so groovy, man.

Serranito is awesome! This is the first time I heard him, and I really like his style. Of course he is a monster, dispensing thunderbolts of picado liberally throughout the pieces, and some of them are real whoppers. I love his bone-dry, Andalucian desert-like tone. I would guess he is playing a blanca, perhaps Conde--anyone know?

I wanted to hear young Paco Pena when he was "young hotshot" as Ron said. I haven't listened to the whole 80 min. double album, but it is promising. I like Paco Pena's stuff.

I am starting to really gravitate towards the music of, roughly the 70s in flamenco...I love this Serranito, and one of my favorite albums is Almoraima. Paco Pena seemed to be in his prime during this era. And wasn't Rafael Riqueni getting ready to come out (or I may be off a decade here).

It seems to me that these greats, Serranito and Paco de Lucia were still playing identifiable flamenco back then. Nowadays I can't tell the difference between a Tarantas and Romeras (or maybe they don't play Romerias anymore). There just seems to be so much syncopation nowadays that the drive is lost.

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ToddK

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RE: Serranito ole! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Just wanted to say,

Serrranito is GREAT!! I LOVE Virtuissimo.

Richard Brune turned my on to him a couple of years ago.

TK

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Ricardo

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From: Washington DC

RE: Serranito ole! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

You can see a short concert by Serranito in the Rito y Geografia DVD collection. Miguel, if you like the 70's you should get that DVD set!

Ricardo

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 25 2005 21:39:12

Guest

RE: Serranito ole! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Ageeed: I have a CD where he accompanies alegrias en mi, live in a Madrid tablao and he does some beautiful, subtle runs which llaman la atencion.

Last year he played in a beautiful small setting in Cadiz, entrada libre. At the appointed hour, there were only 5 aficionados, Serranito and his 2nd guitar. We waited an hour, then he played to perhaps 25 people. Nor did he play particularly well: nowadays it seems that everyone is a fabulous technician and he has been left behind.

But I felt really sorry that someone of such importance and talent should be so neglected. And he is a really nice person, (though that has nothing to do with it).

Sean

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eslastra

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Joined: Jul. 12 2003
From: Livermore, CA USA

RE: Serranito ole! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Miguel,
Serranito is one of my all time favorites. Did you know he does his picados with the 3 fingers a-m-i? Hard enough to do a decent picado with i-m, but a-m-i? I've heard that it was a classical guitarist Narciso Yepes that developed the 3 fingered rest stroke.

Paco Pena has been a major influence to my playing. I guess because most of his stuff is at least 'playable'. I've always enjoyed how he could smoothly connect the falsetas of N. Ricardo, R. Montoya, Sabicas, and others into his pieces and make it all sound like his own. Richard Brune once told me that Paco Pena has an exteremely powerful right hand. There was an old Esteso guitar with very high action in his shop that nobody but Paco Pena could make the strings buzz. I played that guitar and yes it would take a very strong attack to make it buzz

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Miguel de Maria

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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ

RE: Serranito ole! (in reply to eslastra)

Eddie,
cool... I guess that's how he gets that blazing speed.

As far as Paco Pena, I met several of his students when I was in Spain a couple of years ago. They all commented humourously on how loud he could play.

One of the guys, Phillip, was having a problem with his nails...they were coming apart from his finger (ouch!) He said that it occurred once in awhile and he had a cream to put on them. He told me that Paco told him that it happened to him all the time, too--because he plays too hard!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 26 2005 3:08:43