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NormanKliman -> RE: Best ever bulerias? (Apr. 27 2010 0:19:16)
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Good question.. I wondered that myself..very familiar.. If you mean the picado at about 2:50 in the Tía Encarna video, I think it's very old, but I have no specific references.
Did anyone notice that, in the middle part of the Camarón home video, he's "remembering" Antonio El Chaqueta? The part where he sings with a froggy voice. El Chaqueta's bulerías from his last recordings with Antonio Arenas are among my favorites.
La Perla de Cádiz was another great singer of bulerías who deserves special mention, especially the recordings she made with Manuel Morao. They made more than just those eight tracks or whatever on the Hispavox album that we've heard so many times. She recorded one bulería in particular that's one of my all-time favorites. It's apparently an old one from the Cádiz area, attributed I think to Rancapino's grandmother La Obispa. (More about this family here. (EDIT 6 October 2010: Link fixed, may change in the future.) Scroll down to the bottom to see a video of Rancapino's brother Orillo and what looks and sounds like a beardless Niño Jero.) Anyway, La Perla and Rancapino recorded it, as did Camarón, but with a different letra. The classic letra is:
Páseme usted el estrecho
que lo mando yo
(en) una barquillita
para Fernado Poo
Once you hear it you'll never forget it. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out "Fernando Poo" (pronounced Poh-oh). One day, I saw a headline about some newspaper putting its archives online, so I went to the site and used the search engine to look for references to flamenco in very old newspapers. One of the regular sections of this newspaper used to have the timetables for departing ships, just because that's how people used to travel. So, among the timetables, there it was in black and white: "Para Fernando Poo." Turns out that it's an island off the coast of Africa (former Spanish colony now called Bioko) and ships used to stop there regularly.
And what about Fernanda y Bernarda? Ohhh... [;)] The recording with Marote has one of the all-time greatest bulerías: "Todo el mundo nos separa."
For just guitar, Paco's "Piñonate" and "La Tumbona" are pretty damn good.
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