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sam_m

Posts: 71
Joined: Nov. 24 2008
From: St.Helens, England

Recommended Listening...

...for a beginner, please.

Any 'must have' albums or good compilations would be useful as I really don't have much flamenco music at all - with Christmas 'round the corner I aim to rectify this.

Go!

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michel

Posts: 315
Joined: Apr. 14 2008
From: france

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

hi mate

if you'd like to discover jerez-bulerias/soniquete "al compas de los zambos" is really a monumental work!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 3 2008 1:48:59

Anders Eliasson

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Joined: Oct. 18 2006

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

A good way of entering the flamenco is Camaron and Paco de Lucia. I like the album Canastera a lot

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srshea

Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

Sam,

Well, if your friends and family are REALLY generous ‘round Christmas time then this:

http://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/shop.php?vshopferca=c1d2c64d08427d7fedea7be7f07400fd&op_shop=show&id_prod=2945&id_lang=2

is about as must-have as you can get. Not cheap, but worth every penny. And back in circulation after being unavailable for a while.

Have you checked out Robin Totton’s book “Song of the Outcasts”? It’s a good, basic introduction to flamenco history, culture, and aesthetics that, most usefully, comes with a cd with good recordings of all the major song forms. He specifically references the recordings as he discusses the songs in the book, which is really helpful for getting an understanding and a feel for the distinct qualities each form has, which is useful knowledge to have early on as you start to explore and try to make sense of such a broad and varied musical culture.

Hard to make specific recommendations without knowing towards where your own tastes tend to lean. Are you familiar with on-line radio sites like pandora.com? I think that’s a really good way to get a chance to hear a lot for free- from scratchy old recordings, to the most recent stuff,- and get a sense of what strikes your fancy and what doesn’t (yet). Just type in any of the popular names that people mention a lot around here, and see what you get….

Adam

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 4 2008 11:03:21

Francisco

Posts: 879
Joined: Jun. 13 2005
From: SW USA

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

I don't know about a must have for a beginner, but our very own Ricardo's CD has been on regular rotation around here since I bought it.

Also, you might want to check out Moraito's Morao y Oro CD.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 4 2008 21:57:18

Pimientito

Posts: 2481
Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to Francisco)

quote:

Also, you might want to check out Moraito's Morao y Oro CD

Except that its been deleted.

As Anders suggested, Camaron and Paco are a good place to start for beginners because the recordings are so perfect and easily available on Amazon etc. My favorate is still "en vivo" with tomatito.

If you want to start off with solo guitar then pretty much anything by Paco de lucia, especially Sirocco(must have), Solo quiero caminar, Almoraima, Zyryab
Tomatito - rosas del amor, barrio negro, gitarra gitana
Manolo sanlucar - Tauromagia (must have)
For me Gerardo Nuñez - Jucal is a must have too.

Paco cepero-amuleto,rafael riqueni -flamenco,moraito-morao y oro will keep you searching second hand record shops for a while but they will be lucky finds.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2008 2:46:41

Francisco

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Joined: Jun. 13 2005
From: SW USA

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

quote:

Also, you might want to check out Moraito's Morao y Oro CD

Except that its been deleted.

Yeah, but it's such a good one! Oh well, where there's a will....

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2008 4:17:36

tateharmann

Posts: 95
Joined: Mar. 12 2012
From: Minnesota, USA

RE: Recommended Listening... (in reply to sam_m)

I really like what the lute society does for beginners: http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/recommended-listening

I used that as a reference a lot when I was getting into the lute. Anyways, that would be cool to do a poll by the forum members and see what albums come out on top :)

I'm currently obsessed with Paco's 'Cositas Buenas' - great album, can't seem to get enough of it!

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