BarkellWH -> RE: Me Live...update .. (Mar. 7 2015 17:47:33)
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seemingly people regard flamenco as if it was almost a different instrument or something ..over here anyway ,,,, Congratulations, Kiko! Regarding your observation that people seem to regard flamenco as if it were a very different instrument or form, I think that's true. I remember discovering flamenco when I was 17 (that's 55 years ago!) and first picked up an album by Carlos Montoya, and then seeing Carlos live in Phoenix, Arizona that same year, and then graduating to Sabicas. It seemed utterly exotic to me at the time. This was the time when Martin Denny had his band, using exotic and interesting instrument to create his best-selling album "Exotica" and the hit taken from the album, "Quiet Village." It was sort of exotic lounge music that conjured up visions of the South Pacific with a hint of Asia (or so it seemed to us at the time, with our as yet unformed but vague intimations of adventure and forbidden fruit). In any case, flamenco had the same effect on me. I think that because we have made flamenco a passion, learn it, play it, listen to it, and at times almost live it, we tend to take it for granted and forget how utterly different and exotic it sounds to most people. In pursuing this interest, we have been granted a gift, even those, like me, who are at best mediocre players. Bill
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