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mark indigo -> RE: Holy moly..Paco Pena... (Aug. 25 2008 7:27:25)
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yeah, great stuff
Some of these falsetas are on the track "Palmas y Guitarras" which is on the cd "Fabulous Flamenco" and that track and a bunch of others from that cd are on Alain Faucher's catalogue on his Affedis website. They are in tab, but with rhythmic time values like you get with dots. Individual tabs are quite expensive, but 2 are cheaper, and 3 cheaper still, and if you buy 3 you get one free as well.
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interps of N. Ricardo and Sabicas of course, but that buleria had a couple of tricks from PDL's bag. Funny how so many folks need to make a point to say they like Peña better than PDL
IMO, although this is a long way from what PDL has been doing in the 80's, 90's and noughties, this is not so far from PDL's playing in the early 70's, when i assume this clip is from.
Not only that, but despite the fact that Paco Peña's early albums were mostly "trad" versions of Sabicas and Niño Ricardo, his album from the 80's that I think was called Azahara had what are to my ears many ideas borrowed from PDL's playing from the early to mid 70's
ok, i'm gonna change that, and say instead "some" ideas borrowed from PDL. The point is not that he has "abandoned tradition" in favour of some kind of cheap commercialism borrowed wholesale from PDL (which is the suggestion made elsewhere on the net, that PP has gone "nuevo" - in the end temptation got the better of me and i had to go look) but that he has taken some ideas, which presumable he took because he liked them (perish the thought) and wove them (very skillfully IMO) into his interpretation of his own compositions and "traditional" material (which was all composed by someoney, somewhen) almost seamlessly.... which is how traditions evolve.... and if what PDL was doing in 1972 is still considered "nuevo".... oh never mind....
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