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Has anyone heard if there are plans to publish additional books of transcriptions for Paco's albums post-"Almoraima"?
I'm referring to the ones published by RGB Arte Visual (e.g. Enrique Vargas's transcription of "Almoraima," Juan M. Canizares's transcription of "Fuente y Caudal", etc.).
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RE: Any more PDL transcription books... (in reply to machopicasso)
I was thinking, Faucher has had the best transcriptions available for years and he had to put it all under the table at the time the first book was made. I had the feeling it was PDL's brother Ramon, who also around the same time was dealing with the guitar endorsement thing. He wanted to take control, and stop others from using Paco's name to sell products (was my guess). And therefore I sort of assumed both "projects" to have died when he did.
I have a japanese book with accurate standard notation of some tracks from sirocco and live in america. It also has entre dos aguas and I believe they use that as the title of the book. Of course it wouldn't take much for Cañizares to put pen to paper again for the modern rep that he was so familiar with.
I've bought a number of transcriptions from Richard and respect his work. I'm working through his transcription of Antonio Rey's "Aromas de la Caleta," and it looks spot on.
My original question was motivated, in part, by curiosity as to what, if anything, the informal infrastructure of flamenco guitar (i.e. transcribers, publishers, etc.) might do in the aftermath of Paco's death, now that the commemorations have tempered-off somewhat.
RE: Any more PDL transcription books... (in reply to Ricardo)
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I was thinking, Faucher has had the best transcriptions available for years and he had to put it all under the table at the time the first book was made. I had the feeling it was PDL's brother Ramon, who also around the same time was dealing with the guitar endorsement thing.
Now that Paco's died, do you think there's any chance Faucher might start openly selling the PDL transcriptions, again? I ran across a transcription of "La Barrosa" that looked like his work, but it didn't have a name on it.