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Morante -> Flamenco para discutir (Aug. 21 2016 15:41:58)
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Franco ruined flamenco. When he was alive, Spain was closed to the outside world and flamenco was "puro".
Outside of Spain, the postwar blues scene in London spawned Alexis Korner and the Rolling Stones, while
the radio and tv brought Everly Bros etc.
When the great dictador died, the floodgates to the modern world opened and Spain changed forever.
There was an incredible musical movement in Madrid, lots of groups such as Dynamic Duo, copying badly the Everlys, Loquillo a bad copy of Elvis and the incredibly hortera Alaska etc.
Sadly artistas of the calibre of Raimundo, Manzanita or Camaron fell into this trap. Camaron met with Pachon y Humanes y co., just as Elvis met with Col Parker. Money before arte.
After Pachon, Camaron´s recording history is of flamenquito, beginning with Leyendas del Tiempo, many records were prerecorded in the studio with the voice of Pepe de Lucía, which Camarón, who was super dotado, could learn after only one listening and then record his personal style over the prerecorded backing.
Since Camerón was regarded as Dios by young gitanos, they began to copy this style, so that not even los gitanos are preserving their heritage.
Curiously, in his actuaciones en directo with Tomatito, Camaron always sang flamenco, de Chaqueta, de la Perla etc. I have seen him en directo and he was really impressionante.
Meanwhile Paco de Lucía was inventing a toque de virtuoso, which has led to hundreds of super technical guitarists who are poco flamenco.
So the apertura of España was the death knell for flamenco and the birth of flamenquito. But it led to freedom and better social conditions (until the arrival of Europa)
Good or bad? Who can say.
Discuss
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