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For flamenco accompaniment, nothing beats a kazoo. Lacking a kazoo, the old comb and tissue paper will do just fine.
Bill
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH For flamenco accompaniment, nothing beats a kazoo. Lacking a kazoo, the old comb and tissue paper will do just fine.
It's not what you got, it's how you play it. I was recently at a party with a bunch of young Cuban pro musicians. Their guitarist had my blanca, their drummer was handed a tambour and the violinist let rip on a plastic bottle and a pen knife - and man, he was awesome on that plastic bottle!!
Nice film Chester - but the editing of their videos always bugs me. You know they're being awesome, but then it cuts and you don't get to a
[El Tiriti:] the trumpet isnt that rare in flamenco
[El chester:] Really? I haven't seen it before.
It has spoiled (for me) a number of Vicente's pieces that were otherwise good. But as Estebanana suggests, it depends how it's played - Miles style is a better fit with flamenco than Chuck Mangione, which is what Vicente's guy makes me think of. (And yes, bring on the oboe - even better, oboe d'amore.)
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I thought it added a cool film noir vibe. I was waiting for Philip Marlowe to start a monologue.
He's old school. Muy flamenco, though.
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That turtle shell drum thingy is called a pantam, I think.
It's a Swiss invention called Hang. And I haven't seen/heard/imagined it in flamenco, though it is the kind of thing that you might encounter down the calle from the flamenco, in Granada for example, played by a white dude with dreads.
Really? I haven't seen it before. I thought it added a cool film noir vibe. I was waiting for Philip Marlowe to start a monologue.
That turtle shell drum thingy is called a pantam, I think.
Vicente Amigo introduces trumpet (instead of the already decade and half old soprano sax/flute stuff of Pardo) in about 1996. It was certainly meant to evoke the "jazzy" vibe many flamenco aficionados love to hate.
instead of the already decade and half old soprano sax/flute stuff of Pardo
We could go back much further even if we include the likes of Fernando Vilches. But those guys didn't really play in a jazz vibe. Seems like they were mainly just trying to copy cante and not to add an additional layer of music.
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I'm definitely more into traditional flamenco, not into weird instruments (violin, saxophone, even cajón feels a bit too fusioney to me...) yet I heard this, a soleá w/ a "marimba" and I have to admit it SOUNDS very flamenco... "It's how you play it" I guess... https://youtu.be/Xz8r47I-nVw
If we are having trumpet players let them be dressed properly.
Rob
LOL... Sadly, that's what many Americans think it's a typical flamenco outfit
So true. I'm not a purist in any art form. But it does irritate me that of my fellow Americans don't know the difference between mariachi and flamenco. Or flamenco and flamingo!!!
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