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Estevan -> RE: Pitingo's next album (Dec. 15 2007 10:02:25)
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EDIT: I like his album. Great voice.
Recently, there was a thread devoted to Pohren. Everybody lamented the good old days. I get the feeling Flamencos still do Flamenco behind closed doors and release the stuff they know will sell. Let's face it, he is reaching more people singing avante guard stuff than he would "pure" flamenco.
Hey Romerito, I'm glad you added this. I also like his first album very much. But your initial reaction to this was rather like mine when I first listened to "Midnight in Madrid". [&:]
Of course flamencos still do flamenco behind closed doors and elsewhere, and sometimes they record what they think will sell, or what some producer thinks will sell. Sometimes they are probably subject to poor artistic advice (as was Chusco on that disc, I suspect). And I'm sure that sometimes the stuff that we think they are doing because of commercial pressure happens to be stuff they actually like.
In the interesting case of Pitingo, it seems (from reading the interviews and articles) pretty clear that he sings whatever he wants to, and fortunately for him, lots of people like it. There was some real flamenco on the programme, but it happens that the two clips I found on YouTube weren't it.
(Loads of potential for ethnomusicologists to discuss who's 'appropriating' what, and I'll leave that to them )
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