Exitao -> Cante Appreciation Thread (Jan. 19 2009 9:24:36)
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The idea for this just struck me while responding to a post. In the main, the membership of the foro is guitar-centric. It would be nice if we could encourage membership of more dancers and even a few cantaores, but that's neither here nor there. I would like for our cante cognoscenti post the name of a piece of Flamenco music, the name of the cantaor, the letra, where we can find it (album or CD title/year) and maybe some liner notes, as to why we should listen to it, or how it's significant. I will be happy to assist by translating any letra, and I'm sure there are others who will also show willing. For example, one of our members recently posted some famous letra, that most of us didn't know about called Clavito y Canela. Someone, somewhere, might suggest it's embarrassing that no one recognised an extremely famous bit of Flamenco letra. Being incredibly elitist and vain, such a suggestion would anger and shame me, so I think it's time some of us took to educating ourselves. It would be a great start to this thread, if we could have a good recording of Clavito y Canela recommended, with the letra copied over here to the recommending post and maybe some more historical information and/or a review/bio of the cantaor. To recap: If you can contribute, please post - the name of the song (if it has one, if not, the palo)
- the name of the cantaor
- the name of (a) CD(s) where we can find this piece (track listing too, if it doesn't have a name)
- the letra, at least in Spanish (if you can't translate it, someone will do it for you).
- and extra info you might feel is important (e.g. a seminal work that...)
To fully appreciate a piece, we need to hear it and understand it. So we need the music and the letra. Thanks for all the participation so far, and thanks in advance for any participation yet to come!
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