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Adam -> Desert island albums (Jan. 9 2011 12:53:25)
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The other day after some friends were talking about their desert island albums, I was going through my music collection trying to figure out which ones I'd take if I could go to a desert island and were allowed.... well, some small number. (I actually didn't put a number restriction, just a quality restriction: only albums I truly thought were indispensable.)
I noticed something weird - according to iTunes, all of them I'd added to my library over 2 1/2 years ago - so within my first couple of years of listening to flamenco (only one, Juan Carmona's Orillas, I'd discovered more recently). I'm not sure why this is except that flamenco is a fairly small field, and so the obviously great albums - like Tauromagia or La Leyenda del Tiempo - you hear about on, e.g., the foro fairly often. So unless a new album comes out which you'd add to the list (which given the numbers is unlikely in a particular year) you're not likely to find hidden gems; most of the best albums you'll have already heard about. I'm not sure if that's true, but that's my working theory.
So I'm curious to hear two things: first, what your guys' desert island discs would be (this sort of thread happens all the time but I'm guessing at least some people's answers are changing!), and whether you're constantly picking up music you'd add to that list, or whether it's been static for a while like mine. And who knows, maybe people will find some new albums here to add to their lists!
Here's what I came up with (in no particular order except alphabetical [;)]):
Camarón - La Leyenda del Tiempo
Morente - Omega
Gerardo - Andando el Tiempo
Juan Carmona - Orillas
Manolo Sanlúcar - Tauromagia
Paco - Almoraima
Vicente - Ciudad de las Ideas, Poeta
(also: Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, and RHCP - Blood Sugar [:D])
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