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Miguel de Maria -> Serranito ole! (Mar. 25 2005 14:00:36)
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Just got a couple albums in the mail: Serranito's "Virtuoismo de Flamenco Guitar" (or something like that), and a double album of Paco Pena "Fabulous Flamenco!" The Paco Pena album is hilarious, preserving the graphics of the LP--the 70's were so groovy, man.
Serranito is awesome! This is the first time I heard him, and I really like his style. Of course he is a monster, dispensing thunderbolts of picado liberally throughout the pieces, and some of them are real whoppers. I love his bone-dry, Andalucian desert-like tone. I would guess he is playing a blanca, perhaps Conde--anyone know?
I wanted to hear young Paco Pena when he was "young hotshot" as Ron said. I haven't listened to the whole 80 min. double album, but it is promising. I like Paco Pena's stuff.
I am starting to really gravitate towards the music of, roughly the 70s in flamenco...I love this Serranito, and one of my favorite albums is Almoraima. Paco Pena seemed to be in his prime during this era. And wasn't Rafael Riqueni getting ready to come out (or I may be off a decade here).
It seems to me that these greats, Serranito and Paco de Lucia were still playing identifiable flamenco back then. Nowadays I can't tell the difference between a Tarantas and Romeras (or maybe they don't play Romerias anymore). There just seems to be so much syncopation nowadays that the drive is lost.
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