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Thank you so much Jim! He left us without much documentation, before the age of the internet. I just love this video. I have to wonder what he would have been like today?
I have two; Alurican - Solo guitar with two great Buleria. Noches Gitanas En Lebrija, Fiesta Volume 1.
Alurican is very interesting. Takes a while to get used to beacause Pedro had a unique melodic feeling that sometimes jarred on first hearing but once it becomes familiar, it seeps in to your skin. Noches is a live recording focusing on Cante with Pedro rocking away in the background.
I see from World-Flamenco site, there is also;
Pedro Bacan + Le Clam Des Pinini Marisma.
I believe his recordings are now out of print. Sad.
Here's a sample from another of the "lesser known" guitarists...
Quique Paredes...
There really is a wealth of stuff out there once you dig a little deeper than the headline players IMO!
He just seemed to vanish off the scene. I heard he was involved in a serious car accident, but I don't know for sure. Does anybody have any info about what happened to him?
Alurican is out of print, but there are still some copies floating around out there….
Marisma is definitely out of print and totally unavailable…
The Noches Gitanas series and the Pinini Clan records are also out of print, and the used copies available on-line carry a hefty price tag….
I’ve got a handful of 70’s/80’s-era discs on which he accompanies Curro Malena, Manuel de Paula, El Lebrijano, and Calixto Sanchez. Some of these might not be too hard to track down. These are all great, though he plays in a considerably more straight-forward style than he does in these solo performance vids and on Alurican.
The easiest thing to find right now is the record he did with his sister, Ines, called De Viva Voz. Plenty of copies out there, and it’s a great record- closer in style to the more modern leanings of his solo stuff.
I agree with Jim’s feelings about Alurican taking a bit of getting used to. He has this rolling, flowing, endlessy arpeggiated style and a subtle sense of melody that I found kind of boring and uneventful at first. But after spending a lot of time with it it’s become my favorite solo guitar record. One of the many fantastic flamenco discs that is strangely and criminally out of print.
The Quique Paredes record has been on my list of stuff to buy for a while now, and that sample just bumped it up to the top.
I really love the intro from the bulerias of his that you recorded. One of those things that really jumped out at me and stuck in my mind from the first time I heard it….
Oh, Bacan is featured in several episodes of Rito y Geografia as well, but I don’t think any of that has made its way to youtube yet. But all that stuff is well worth buying and it's much better than seeing it on a tiny little youtube clip…..
Its a very nice Bulerias. I prefer Bacan´s style over the "big" names like Amigo , Nuñez, Tomatito etc.
Another great solo album is "Jondura" by Parilla de Jerez. A very different solo album. It took me a while to get used to it, but now I really like it.
Are these classic falsetas from Bacan or did he played mixes of Sabicas and Montoya? When I began playing, I liked that a lot. Its all not too fancy. Nice.
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