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RE: Ch.. ch... ch.... Changes! (in reply to Ron.M)
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Well, I think you can find good things in all styles. I mostly listen to old and semi old flamenco. These days it's Carmen Linares Anthology that's on my Cd player while I work. She has a great voice, and there is a bit of everything in styles. From Moraito to V. Amigo playing guitars. Most of it is really good.
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Date Jun. 18 2005 21:48:38
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Miguel de Maria
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RE: Ch.. ch... ch.... Changes! (in reply to Ron.M)
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Ron, I hear you man. You know I got into this thing with PDL and then Vicente, etc.; but I find myself steadily moving "backwards." It does seem that for me, Paco Pena is a nice period that combines technical interest with the flamenco feeling that I enjoy. Now, although I don't mean to be negative, there is something about the newer styles, a kind of "cooler than thou-ness" that I do not respond to. It's like you're supposed to be wearing sunglasses when you play. It reminds me of "modern art", those big splashes of red paint on a huge white canvas; or 20th century classical music. A bunch of dissonances with no discernable pattern. While I don't contend that these forms are without skill, they certainly don't interest me. I guess I'm just getting old. When you syncopate too much, you lose all the rhythmic interest. It becomes bossa nova, elevator music. But without the sunny, tropical feeling.
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Date Jun. 19 2005 17:31:40
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Ron.M
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RE: Ch.. ch... ch.... Changes! (in reply to Florian)
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Yeah Florian, My listening mood shifts a lot as well. There's a lot of good players playing good stuff out there. For a long time I felt the world had moved on and that a lot of the pre Paco stuff was a bit long in the tooth and musically fairly naive. But on revisiting it, I find there's a lot of energy and tone and feeling that I don't hear so much in cool/moody Flamenco. In fact I find the naive-ness is half the charm of it actually. ..muy direct and in your face. Todd/Mike... I've seen Serranito play several times in a small club environment which had no sound reinforcement. Although I was at the front, he really did play quietly. He played very clearly though, like a classical player, with each note very sharp and clean using a "free stroke" type picado in combination with thumb bass notes....you know the style I mean..where if you are looking at him straight on, you can only see the knuckles and middle joint of the fingers 'cos he's really pulling upwards on the strings with the fingers curled under. When the dancers came on and he was joined by a couple of other guitarists you could hardly hear him at all except for pre arranged parts where everybody would stop for a bar or two and he'd solo with one of his long picado runs. Actually, on the picado runs, he would screw up quite a lot, missing or fluffing notes here and there, but it still sounded great as it didn't interfere with the rhythm. He's a great player with his own distinctive sound. And a really pleasant and modest guy to speak to. cheers Ron
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Date Jun. 21 2005 13:44:05
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