Anders Eliasson -> RE: Bulerías basic timekeeping. (Dec. 21 2006 8:17:18)
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quote: It’s unfortunate guitarist’s names are often overlooked. This is an unrelated issue. I think it shows VERY well how things are, Anders, what I meant was, one thing is the musical dynamic that makes cante tick, and another, unrelated thing is how shows are announced. The former cannot be changed without changing the nature of flamenco, the latter is a matter of etiquette that can easily be changed if people so desire. Nevertheless, people are far more interested in who's singing at a cante recital than who's playing. When Paco uses cante as embellishment for his playing, it's more important he's Paco, than whether the singer is Duquende, Potito or Rafael de Utrera. Estela, It seems to me that you dont get it. When I read the mass of your postings, I get this feeling that what you say is: Everything is the way it is, dont change it, because it wont be better.... I agree that things are good, flamenco is doing well, but the lack of respect I was talking about, and which you prefer to see as something of no real importance, is a part of the culture that IMHO would be a VERY good idea to change. Only by changing this attitude, there´ll be a chance of evolving flamenco to be an artform with much more interaction than there is nowadays. I know the names of the guitarists are not on the poster because they are not hired yet, and thats normal and IMO bad. Its the origin of this play it safe guitarist, dont interfere with the singers inspiration, way of doing things, which is so conservative and which some people like very much. Of course you´ll have to play it safe, when you dont even get a change to know you are playing until the day before the show........ I´m 100% sure that flamenco would be a much more interesting thing if this was changed. We´ve discussed before, that cante is having a difficult time, speaking about comercializstion, CD´s etc. I think it´s cantes own fault, because its so goddam conservative that most people nowadays dont really care for it, which is a BIG shame, because its a very potential artform. This leads to all this solo guitar stuff. Most of it boring IMO. Since guitarists dont get a chance with the singers, they have evolved this music style with this embellishment cante which is like a thin soup made of the rests of yesterdays cante.... Maybe if things were changed, if Cante singers stopped behaving like a lot of them do, this would change and we would have a much more intersting artform. Everyone would win, especially the singers. [:)] Its all about fear. I see a lot of fear in flamenco and especially in Cante. Fear of change, even for the better. (Vivir con miedo es vivir a medias[;)]) Its fun you name PDL, because he´s such a good example. I really like PDL, his contribution has been enourmous. He´s the reference point for guitarists. But, when I want to hear Paco play, I find some of the old Camaron recordings, because thats where Paco is really on. Everything is so vibrant, his compás,his interactin with Camarón, his falsetas and even his errors are VIBRANT. His solo recordings, The early ones are great, but there´s no cante....[:-] Later on with the sextet..... Well.... some good things and some elevator music mixed together. I didn´t even go to his concert when he was here.[8|]
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