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Harry -> RE: Paco de Lucia's Ensemble (Jul. 10 2011 15:31:25)
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Well..in my defense:
"One can detect the great tradition in Ramon's playing, but it is rarely like it can be with others, when the very odors of juergas and gypsies and cave dwellings seem to permeate the room, when bubbling gaiety and profound sadness issues from the tremulous strings. It is tragic, in a way, that in Ramon's last years he himself recognized the inadequacy and pointlessness of most if his artistic life."
"A most serious failing in Ricardo's makeup is that his intricate style of playing presents an obstacle through which little duende can seep. His playing is exciting, musically fascinating, sometimes beautiful, but not generally emotional to the extent that Ricardo would be capable with a less complex style of playing."
"He has cut too many records, some of them strictly commercial, a lot of them trash...as far as they are concerned, everything that Sabicas does nowadays is to be blindly condemned. In a way they are right."
Clearly Pohren has an agenda which is to limit the guitar's place to hammering out compas and the simplest of falsetas which is fine, he is entitled to this opinion, but sometimes his criticisms feel overly harsh.
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