Cipres

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Exitao

Posts: 907
Joined: Mar. 13 2006
From: Vancouver, Canada

Cipres

Hey guys, I was curious if anyone could answer a couple of questions.

Who is the cantaor in Quique Paredes' recording of Cipres? I really rather like his voice.

And does anyone have a good source for the letra? (the site where I used to find most letras has either closed or relocated).

Also, I'm curious about the opening line "cautivo de tu rededor." I've never actually heard the word rededor before.
How would a Spanish speaker translate that? Contextually, I'm thinking it's sort of like... vicinity. But that lacks the feeling of the cante.
(Funny, in I'd say "falta gracia" but I can't bring myself to say "it lacks grace" in English.)

Also, on the cover of De Maera, it he holding a negra, or is that a funny coloured shellac? Because in Cipres, it sounds like the perfect example of a blanca to me, bright and almost brittle.

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jmb

Posts: 119
Joined: Oct. 14 2014
From: Vallecas - Madrid - Spain

RE: Cipres (in reply to Exitao)

Probably the cantor is 'El Boqueron'. And yes. It is a personal voice.

The lyrics, by a press piece of news, is a poem of Paco Herrera. May it can help you.

'Rededor' is well likely a wrong pronunciation of standard Spanish as usual in flamencos. Probably he should said "Cautivo a tu alrededor, prisionero de tu sombra...". The use of local deformations (andalusian or gypsy dialects) of language in flamenco is controversial. For example you can understand clearly Morente (Antonio Chacon School, Granada, payo), but Camaron (Gypsy, Cádiz) is sometimes really difficult because of this deformations and his lyrics are full of andalusian/gypsy expressions. The second is the most common.

But this kind of language for a Spaniard speaker has its context and sometimes sounds more poetic and intense Spanish than the Standard Castilian Spanish. And add more "gracia" and expressivity.

It is like the slang and local expressions in American Songs (in blues, folk, etc. ).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 21 2015 22:23:00

Exitao

Posts: 907
Joined: Mar. 13 2006
From: Vancouver, Canada

RE: Cipres (in reply to jmb)

So... you're saying that the singer is a guy named "the Bigmouth"?
When you say it's a personal voice, do you mean unique or do you mean it has a strong effect?

It may be that the cantaor "ate" the word, but because I'd never heard it before I did look the word up in various sources and it has an entry in RAE (which is the official/definitive Spanish Spanish dictionary, compiled by the holy keepers of castellano, like the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française is for the French language - for those who've never heard of it :P ), and there was no indication that it was slang.

So rededor is actually its own word. It's a noun, and it means an area and/or the defining limits of the area (like the outline, edge or periferia or contorno ).

Whereas alrededor is a phrasal adverb that seems to designate an area centered on the referent subject/object. Something is or happens around something or someone. (e.g. around one o'clock, they gathered around him)

So, if I were to really try to translate cautivo de tu rededor, I would say:
Captive to your location/vicinity, or captive to wherever are?
But if I wanted to take some license and try for a less literal, yet more true translation: Captive in your orbit.

I took the youtube Curso Dandalú, so I'm aware of the beautiful savagery they perpetrate on castellano. I'm still waiting for my certification and mail order bride for completing the course.

It's interesting and great that you mentioned Chacon, because my media library HD has suffered fatal damage and I have to rebuild my music library (all of my hard to get 80's and flamenco music, gone. That and a moth invasion that ruined 80% of my finest and favourite clothes).
Chacon was the guy who did A clavito y canela. I've been busting my head trying to find that song, but I couldn't remember enough of the song title or his name to get search results. So you've saved me some some deformation of the skull.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 1 2015 22:48:35