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I have some all-time favorite bulerias (cante or instrumental -- don't care), but I am sure I have overlooked a few, and I'd like to hear your faves so I can go out and buy them.
My faves: Alfileres de Colores (Miguel Poveda and Diego Carrasco, track 7 of "Tierra de Calma", Juan Carlos Romero guitar)
Echame a mi la culpa (Carmen Amaya, source unknown, Sabicas accompanys)
Cazuela Pa (Emilio Maya, Track 8 of "Temple"
Nuevo Dia (Lole y Manuel, cd of same title)
Payaso Falete
Hmm. Camaron and/or PDL should be there. Hard to choose one (or more) from their work.
Maybe Almoraima . . .?
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, nah list more man its good i also love to play the gitanos my vincente, i fear ill die before playing anything remotely similar , but the journey is fun
old world bulerias moron style melodically are real fun
I love "El Mandaito" by Vicente. With cante, my favorite right now is the second track from "Flamenco vivo" with Camaron and Tomatito. Love the energy on that one.
OK it is old but Almoraima rocks. You feel like you are going on the attack from the opening alzapua.
Does anyone know how Paco gets the tone he does, especially the arabic sounding stuff near the end? Is it all one guitar he plays straight through? Doesn't sound like it.
For solo guitar this one's still tops for me. I don't think it's an accident that that it's the first thing that comes up when you type "bulerias" into youtube....
Check out this Bulerias video of Camaron. I've never seen him play and sing at the same for this long. He was pretty good of course since he had the best teachers .
interesting vid Cuerdas, nice. camaron always seamed to be very much interested in what his guitarrist is playing, when you watch him on videos, he always looks at the guitar very ínterested
anyway, i think @ 3.03 someone farted in the video you posted lol
flybynight : wow great video you posted! I'm a fan now!
A question though : I'm a recognizing some falsettas that I heard paco play with camaron there. Are those traditional, or is it that he or they borrowed those?
OK it is old but Almoraima rocks. You feel like you are going on the attack from the opening alzapua.
Does anyone know how Paco gets the tone he does, especially the arabic sounding stuff near the end? Is it all one guitar he plays straight through? Doesn't sound like it.
It is only one guitar - but there's also an oud That does most of the Arabic stuff you're thinking of, stuff a guitar can't even do because of the quarter tones.
Good question.. I wondered that myself..very familiar..
If you mean the picado at about 2:50 in the Tía Encarna video, I think it's very old, but I have no specific references.
Did anyone notice that, in the middle part of the Camarón home video, he's "remembering" Antonio El Chaqueta? The part where he sings with a froggy voice. El Chaqueta's bulerías from his last recordings with Antonio Arenas are among my favorites.
La Perla de Cádiz was another great singer of bulerías who deserves special mention, especially the recordings she made with Manuel Morao. They made more than just those eight tracks or whatever on the Hispavox album that we've heard so many times. She recorded one bulería in particular that's one of my all-time favorites. It's apparently an old one from the Cádiz area, attributed I think to Rancapino's grandmother La Obispa. (More about this family here. (EDIT 6 October 2010: Link fixed, may change in the future.) Scroll down to the bottom to see a video of Rancapino's brother Orillo and what looks and sounds like a beardless Niño Jero.) Anyway, La Perla and Rancapino recorded it, as did Camarón, but with a different letra. The classic letra is:
Páseme usted el estrecho que lo mando yo (en) una barquillita para Fernado Poo
Once you hear it you'll never forget it. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out "Fernando Poo" (pronounced Poh-oh). One day, I saw a headline about some newspaper putting its archives online, so I went to the site and used the search engine to look for references to flamenco in very old newspapers. One of the regular sections of this newspaper used to have the timetables for departing ships, just because that's how people used to travel. So, among the timetables, there it was in black and white: "Para Fernando Poo." Turns out that it's an island off the coast of Africa (former Spanish colony now called Bioko) and ships used to stop there regularly.
And what about Fernanda y Bernarda? Ohhh... The recording with Marote has one of the all-time greatest bulerías: "Todo el mundo nos separa."
For just guitar, Paco's "Piñonate" and "La Tumbona" are pretty damn good.
Ashod: I'm a recognizing some falsettas that I heard paco play with camaron there. Are those traditional, or is it that he or they borrowed those?
Good question.. I wondered that myself..very familiar.. perhaps Norman or someone might pop in and help us.
Paco played that first at the end of "El Tempul" on Fantasia Flamenca. Taking inspiration from N Ricardo and Sabicas, and even Ramon Montoya who often arranged vocal cancion or "cuple" type melodies into falseta for picado, in A minor. Not sure which melody exactly Paco took his version from, but I think of the falseta as "his" anyway.
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