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gardenshed -> Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsies Knew. (Mar. 27 2008 10:45:08)
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Pythagoras codified music after hearing a smith working on different sized anvils, which produced different sounds directly in proportion to their size.
Seguiriyas is the most primal form of flamenco. Based on the anvil, and who knows what cross-conception of magic and hell which the blazing forge conjured up in the minds of the Gitano, who were expert smiths, of course.
Seguiriyas is also the most cosmic of the flamenco forms. A true cry of the lone, travelling individual soul in the vastness of the universe and time. A child of rhythm and vibration – not that old trickster Melody. The Bare forked Being. The Thing itself, as Shakespeare says. And now we learn that iron is the element on the periodic table which all other elements try to be.
It is the most stable organization of atomic particles there is. It is the rhythm of the universe. The anvil of the cosmic forge. And also the forge of music and of flamenco.
Again the Gitano knew something without being told. Without having to be taught. No wonder they have always been so persecuted.
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