Greaaaat... that exactly what i was hoping for. Something I didn't know yet, but catches me directly!
Thanks [:)]
Erik van Goch -> RE: Flamenco era - 1950-1960 (Nov. 22 2012 20:27:41)
At that period of time some of the refugees of Spanish civil war who had left Spain to settle in (and tour)(South) America from the became huge stars. Parts of their adventures predate the period mentioned above (it starts in the 30ties) but are still very much entangled with who they became to be in the 50ties. Mario Escudero, Sabicas and Carmen Amaya changed the face of Flamenco forever. Sabicas was the PDL of his time (his Amarican made record "Flamenco Puro" became the flamenco sensation of the 50ties) and Carmen enjoying herself on stage.......well, she often made hurricane Cathrina look like child play.
Carmen did perform in American made movies:
and live on stage in various settings:
It brought her to al parts of the wold:
Flamenco has an open ear for new ideas and people like Carmen, Sabicas, Mario Escudereo and Paco de Lucia discovered, explored and adapted many new exciting rhythms/melodies during their south american travels. In Cuba it happened to the Guajira and in Colombia it happened to the Colombianas
Needles to say the new material sooner or later was molded to flamenco idioms. A very interesting example of how these songs and rhythms were spiced with flamenco elements is the lovely Rumba enclosed in this wonderful Jazz intermezo (again showing Carmens travels and deeds). The rumba is accompanied on the guitar in a style resembling the rumba gitana. The melody however is still very much south South American.
My father professionally played music like previous rumba in the netherlands in this period of time, performing 6 hours a day, 363 days a year over a 10-plus year period. He worked with many different kind of artists including lots of flamenco performers. His dutch story is told here:
La Repompa de Malaga, who died very young in 1959 was a major influence on modern flamenco. Her tangos are famous, but check out this bulerias - the melody is covered by Camaron on Vivire' (Tres luceros). I'm pretty sure he is sining about Repompa when he talks about "since you left ..." "Gitanita tan buena y tan guapa, ay gitanita si estuvieras aqui" She was a big influence on La Susi as well.
I have some old vinyl recordings from the 50's and 60's. Including the original Hispanovox collection "Anthology of Cante Flamenco" that I bought in 1958.
But unfortunatley I have no means of transferring them to audio files to load on this site.
