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I don't post much at all, but I do visit a lot, so thanks to everyone who is experienced and active. I play most for a kind of meditative enjoyment, and while I practice somewhat I can't for the life of me imagine being able to fire off modern rasgueos! I content myself for letting thumb my thumb run free with the sloppy pma thing, at least I can control the speed and dynamic with this.
I've been listening predominantly to flamenco for a few years and while there are many albums that I enjoy, by far the standouts are the Camaron PdL albums from 69-77 and the flamenco vivo series with Moraito accompanying, I imagine that is a pretty common sentiment.
I think I would enjoy at times sitting down to the Camaron albums and listening carefully with letras to follow along with. Does anyone know of a collected listing of letras for each album? I can't seem to find a systematic listing by album.
Note that I don't know any spanish, though I would like to dive in, I don't know what approach to take considering my main interest is flamenco and my life is such that I won't be hopping on a plane to Spain. So while my main interest is just the letras so I can follow along to the sounds, translations would be nice but not necessary. My musical friends poke fun at me because I always seem more interested in sounds than in song and lyric. In fact, this is what attracts me most to flamenco cante, the music sends me into this realm beyond where the specific lyric is not needed (granted, it is not my culture, so what I am appreciating is limited, but flamenco makes the super short list of what I think of as transcendent). I haven't found much else to compare besides the afro sambas of Baden Powell, maybe certain blues and selected Hendrix, sometimes Chopin, Japanese Shakuhachi, some Indian classical music as well, also oud, ok well that is a lot. I guess it is now obvious I've been drinking a bit tonight, so I will now stop my rambling.
RE: camaron 69 - 77 letras? (in reply to ptmikulski)
Most of my CDs have got the letras: "Con la colaboracion especial de PdL", "Camaron Nuestro" (great live collection that you need to have) and "Castillo de Arena" were the first ones I checked and they've all got the letras in the CD booklet. If you're using downloads... that might be the problem... Nothing to stop you learning a bit of Spanish, even if you can't get to Spain any time soon. Any little grain of understanding you can acquire will help you enjoy it all the more. Palante los Camaroneros!
Geez, I actually do have all the CD's (I bought the large integral box years ago), though listen to them ripped as a set and for some silly reason I had it so stuck in my head that the CD booklets were of the common scant kind that it didn't even occur to me to check.
RE: camaron 69 - 77 letras? (in reply to ptmikulski)
Great! Glad to hear it. I usually listen to them ripped as well, as it goes...(if I don't have the LP). Thinking about it, it's about time I put some Camaron on - good for morale!
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