Xavi -> RE: Camaron con la Colaboracion Especial de Paco de Lucia (May 5 2014 23:03:13)
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Yes, Al verte las flores lloran -- not only as a complete work, but as a powerhouse intro track...Almoraima and La Canada are that way for me as well. To continue the story... By 1971, 23-year-old Paco's not mincing words in his interview with Triunfo magazine: "The Gypsies are very good at interpreting flamenco, they are true artists, but they create very few new things, because they have a fear of reality. They improve in terms of technique, but not in inventiveness. What’s more, the old ones – the patriarchs of flamenco – don’t open new paths, they don’t want the art to evolve (“no quieren que evolucione”). And the young don’t dare contradict them..." Triunfo: Let’s talk about cante. Does it have the same problems with tradition that the guitar does? Paco de Lucia: Yes, it’s the same. There are very famous singers, considered to be maestros (masters), whom I don’t like. They’ve done a lot for flamenco, they are teaching young artists to sing, but the young people aren’t really expressing themselves; they’ve heard all the old stuff, but without any original creativity (“pero sin la menor creacion original”). They seem like flamenco tape recorders... ...Nonetheless, there’s a new singer who, for my taste, is the best of all time (“es de lo mejor que ha salido en todas las epocas”.) His name is Camarón de la Isla... ...Maybe he doesn’t know a hundred flamenco song forms, like the purists who presume to know a hundred different songs. I’d be okay if he only knew two, because I feel better with those two than with the hundred songs of the others. (“Yo me conform con que el sepa dos, pero con esos dos yo me siento mejor que con los cien cantes de los otros.”) Because although he only sings you two songs, and sings them to you every day, every day you hear a different song. He is one of those who do flamenco without “camelo” (deception, lying). And what’s more, his voice has perfect “afinación” (melodic precision, perfect tune); he has all the attributes (“condiciones”) that anyone can have to sing flamenco. Well, he’s got everything – there it is. (“Bueno, lo tiene todo, ya esta.”) (Source: http://www.flamencoexperience.com/blog/?p=171)
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