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Well I'm going to go ahead and assume that the majority of members are some what proficient in flamenco and maybe classical, but I was wondering what other music styles we enjoy playing. Personally, I enjoy neo classical, middle eastern, metal, gypsy jazz, and (traditional) bluegrass. Of course none hold that special place that flamenco holds.
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
I cant play any style on an "acceptable" level apart from flamenco. I may enjoy other music, instrumental music in general, but nothing can give me the excitement that flamenco has. I would guess that 95% of the listening-time i hear flamenco. That must sound shocking for other people who have a more "average" listening preference (rock, pop, radio). But for me flamenco contains already many and enough influences, so, if people think of flamenco they actually have no idea how different the same style can sound.
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RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Well, I'm a classical guitarist as well, so I occasionally play some classical. But I especially play a lot of South American classical guitar music – Antonio Lauro, Vicente Sojo, etc. Great stuff. I also love to play Argentine Tangos, which come off so naturally on guitar that they might as well have been written for it. I play all the warhorses, El Choclo, La Cumparsita, etc. I slip a few rasgueados into my arrangements, because they go well with this music, and that spices it up a bit. If anyone wants to hear a fabulous knockout highly original rendition of "La Cumparsita," just listen to this –
He's a classical guitarist from – Argentina, so naturally tangos are second nature, but he plays all kinds of other stuff. Interestingly, he's using the traditional flamenco position. Watching him play, I suspect he would make a hell of a flamenco guitarist. Actually, I wouldn't doubt that he does play some flamenco.
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RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Love old 80s rock and metal. been revisiting Yngwie, Odyssey and Trilogy, I love Van Halen 5150, Dokken back for the attack, and even Nelson after the rain. All that has been in my car recently. Also Extreme pornografiti, and my favorite band Racer-X, Second heat and live extreme volume. I like some instrumental guitar stuff too, revisited Joe Satriani, Vinnie moore Time Odyssey, Steve Vai Passion and Warfare. Jason Becker is a favorite too.
I love also John Mclaughlin, just about all his albums and collaborations, and Al dimeola, not just the trio stuff. Shakti is always in my car, Al with World sinfonia was nice.
I have a play list on the ipod to chill out so you get an idea of my eclectic tastes. The wish live, mclaughlin with remember shakti Last temptation of christ, peter gabriel Siguiriyas El Pele with Vicente Oracion Manolo Sanlucar El Noy de la mare, my father playing with his guitar ensemble. Nino curro PDL live Higher Jason becker Frevo Egberto Gismonti solo piano Rain Jason Becker Brise de Coer Mclaughlin with Katia Labeque someday my prince will come Al di meola with world sinfonia Flamenco Sketches Miles Davis Sierra al Agua Vicente Amigo Two Sisters Shakti Yerma nuñez Querido Metheney Vicente PDL duet Oriana Al dimeola Nacencia Manolo Sanlucar
Nice to relax when I am sleep or Hungover. (Quite often in other words).
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Ricardo)
Ricardo,
Have you heard John Handy's (alto sax) "Spanish Lady" from "Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival"?
Actually I'm into Susannah McCorkle's stuff at the moment, not challenging for the listener, but you've gotta be a good artist to make it sound that way. Like being bathed in liquid honey!
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Ron.M)
I'm all over the place really. I'll hear something catchy I haven't heard in years buy all the albums of the artist and listen to them all day. I've been listening to a lot of Slayer lately.
I was into the virtuoso guitarists like Yngwie and Steve Vai but also great pop composers. I'm a huge Beatles fan.
Biggest pop artist for me would be David Bowie. He was obviously stealing things all throughout his career, in the late 60's he had a Beatles cut, suit and tie and and was singing like the Beatles, in his hippie days you hear Bob Dylan, in The Man Who Sold the World Led Zeppelin, Diamond Dogs has a lot of Rolling Stones influence, his 80's hits and the industrial stuff he was doing in the 90's was all influenced by things in those times. It's like when the Beatles were always the trendsetters he was always interpreting the popular music of every era in his own way.
Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane are my favorites - I've listened to those albums a million times and could listen a million more. The only song on Ziggy Stardust that isn't catchy to me is a cover.
And you can say about Morrissey what you want (his voice is quite annoying actually which is a shame), but Johnny Marr to me is one of the greatest pop composers of the 80's.
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RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
I play flamenco 80% of the time, sometimes I learn songs that my girlfriend wants to sing, and other times i compose small pieces of music which don't necessarily fall into any particular genre. I also love playing blues, but I'm not very good at it.
When it comes to music I'm listening to, I presently get my fixes from Dowland and Gaspar Sanz but I switch often and I've almost touched all genres of music at some point. Last album I bought was by german krautrock band Popol Vuh. :-|
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
I've got a love for traditional world music. From Fela Kuti (Afrobeat) to Tadashi Tajima (Shakuhachi). Nowadays listening again to some old records of Olli Ahvenlahti.
It's good to step aside from listening a lot to flamenco, it clears the mind again for new input.
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Monday I play for flamenco dancers every third wedensday I play for flamenco dancers Thursday I practice with a Heavy metal band Sunday I play for another dance class My wife is a flamenco dancer so whenever she says so...I play Saturdays are usually Jam or Rock band gig When the drummer is late or doesnt show up... I play drums Last month I bought a Roland TD-20X e drum set( Im startting to enjoy the drums)...flamenco improves your drumming
When I get the whim I like to invent electronic music using plug ins and effects I used to play alot of jazz rock fusion so I enjoy that kind of music
I dont think there is a type of music I dont like listeng to except country But when it comes to listening while driving its flamenco thats my favorite, or the radio I like Blues alot, and usually go to see any blues act that comes to town sometimes I go to the open stage blues bars for a jam....thats fun. c
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Its great to see how eclectic our tastes are here! Ricardo, Pornograffiti may be one of my favorite albums, Nuno is just spot on throughout the whole album, actually put some serious time in learning a big chunk of that album ,Rock on! But it really is great knowing that we are diverse on the foro I think its important, in playing any kind of music, to be well rounded and able to play outside of your "comfort zone."
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Me, I like a hole lotta stuff... Youtube videos of solos classsical and jazz guitar, and digging-up old and new performances of classic songs Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima and Keely Smith (Gorgeous), Dean Martin, Getz / Gilberto, Henry Purcell Joy Division, The Stranglers, The Cure, Heaven 17, Human League, Simple Minds (older stuff), Kraftwerk, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, I think you get the picture... AC/DC, Led Zeppilin, ALICE COOPER, Guns and Roses, Iggy Pop Sir Elton John Tragically Hip, Our Lady Peace, Stompin Tom, Great Big Sea, you know, all the Canadiana stuff Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, M. Ward, Sigur Ros, Scissor Sisters, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, and a whole lotta indie artists
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
I played classical for the first 20 years I played the guitar then I "discovered" flamenco and listened to nothing but for three years - immersion therapy. I played for dance classes and with a semi-pro Spanish dance group. Then I broke my left wrist. I came back to flamenco after a year of rehab but never got back up to speed and battled tendonitis and the results of a damaged nerve in my left wrist and had to put the guitar down completely for a couple of years. I just pulled it out again a few months ago but I'm having the same problems with tendonitis and the damaged nerve. After I put the guitar away the first time I nearly went crazy not being able to make music and my search led me to a couple of tin whistles that I had bought years before. I found a good teacher and now I play Irish traditional music on the tin whistle and listen to Irish and flamenco on the I-Pod. I also have become very fond of Fado (Portuguese music for those who don't know it). I never intentionally listen to pop or rock any more. My granddaughter says my music is boring. I would have thought so when I was ten years old, too.
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to minordjango)
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wow so many similar things to me from Johnny marr to slayer and inbetween.
I'm amazed at how the guys in Slayer are just about in their 50's and can still make an album like "Christ Illusion", which I think is the best one they ever made. The new album kind of let me down though.
Morrissey can sing kind of like the way Bob Dylan can sing. His voice got better throughout his career. Everytime I try to figure out a riff from Johnny Marr it suprises me how simple it is.
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RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
Besides the obvious flamenco music
I got Ravi Shankar, munir bashir, Joe Pass, miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane Bill Evans (the pianist) Wes Montgomery, Guns n Roses, Ac/Dc, Bad Religion, Greg Graffin solo stuff, RL Burnside, Simon and Garfunkle, Kiss, Metallica , Pantera Lars Winnerbäck, Tomas Andersson Wij,
This could go on and on, In my car at the moment is Guns n Roses, Ac/Dc and Greg Graffin, I also had Extreme (pornografitti) but it had to go since i only likes Nuno´s solos and nothing else ..jejejeje
Henrik
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RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to Djreisat)
I really can't say enough about my new favorite band- Talk Talk. Not their first efforts but their last 3 albums. Unreal. Lauging Stock is now my favorite album of all time. Came out in 1991, but it doesn't sound dated. It really has a timeless quality to it. Mark Hollis' solo album is pretty incredible as well. Do yourself a favor and get a copy if don't already have one. My collection is way too expansive to list but the artists I always come back to are:
Ralph Towner Michael Hedges Radiohead Bjork Paul Simon (Graceland will always have a special place in my heart) Smashing Pumpkins Deftones Badi Assad Alex De Grassi Shakti Keith Jarrett Slint Agustin Barrios!!!!
Their is simply too much great music in this world!!!!
RE: Curious of the musical diversity (in reply to minordjango)
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tzembetiko greek daning
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No.. It is rempetiko - Ρεμπέτικο or you wanted to say zeimpekiko - Ζεϊμπέκικο Ρεμπέτικο is a musical style - like flamenco Ζεϊμπέκικο is a dance, that is a part of Ρεμπέτικο and others. I play a little of these... It has to be because i am greek
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