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srshea -> Pandora- On line radio (Aug. 23 2008 14:54:11)
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Y’all familiar with this site?:
http://www.pandora.com/
It’s a “personalized” on-line radio where you create different stations by typing in an artist name or song title, and it plays stuff that its algorithm or whatever deems to have similar qualities. I first discovered it a year and a half/two years ago, but forgot about it until just recently. At the time I recall there being a not-too-impressive selection of flamenco stuff, but I think they must have added to their database since then. At any rate, I’ve been listening to it quite a bit lately and have been enjoying it. Some of the names that they have in their system are Chacon, Morente, PDL, Tomatito, Gerardo Nunez, Fosforito, Jose Menese, Sabicas, Camaron, Manolo Sanlucar, Juenke, Argentina, Diego el Cigala, Chano Lobato… that’s off the top of my head right now. If you type in Fosforito or Menese, you tend to get more straight up cante and trad-style guitar. If you type in PDL or Tomatito you do get more real flamenco, but you also get lots of Gypsy Kings and some guitar-based, pan-latin “world music” type stuff. You can customize each station by giving a “thumbs –up” or “thumbs-down” to any track as it comes up, and it’s supposed to change what’s played to suit your preferences (though I’ve found that this feature is only sometimes effective).
Those of you who already have large CD collections probably won’t be overly impressed, but for me it’s provided a good way to hear a bunch of stuff that I don’t have, myself. You do have to create an account after the first few songs, but it is a free, no-strings affair.
Type in a name and see what you get………
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