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Beginner s Guide to Flamenco celebrates the past, present and future of flamenco.
The previous edition of Beginner s Guide to Flamenco was one of the most popular in the range having sold over 23,000 to date.
Featuring familiar and veteran names sequenced together with names known only amongst the flamenco community in Spain Beginner s Guide to Flamenco is full of vim and vigour as young singers like Rosario la Tremendita, David Lagos, Encarna Anillo appear alongside more established figures like La Macanita,
Miguel Poveda, Mayte Martín and Diego Carrasco.
Flamenco, that intriguing combination of voice, guitar, feet and palmas handclapping, is unrivalled as one of the few musical forms which directly expresses every possible emotion from joy to anger, celebration to grief, weeping to laughter, seriousness to joking. Flamenco captures and conjures up life and death.
Flamenco has been riding high in the world in recent decades as one of Europe s oldest yet contemporary, cutting-edge art forms. UNESCO s 2011 recognition of flamenco as Intangible Cultural Heritage has been welcomed enthusiastically in Spain. And that enthusiasm is felt all over Europe right down to the
dance aficionados (fans) who dance weekly in cities as far away from flamenco s Andaluz heartland as Edinburgh, Stockholm, Toulouse, Mexico City and Tokyo. Today, not only can the best be seen at Jerez at its annual festival and at Seville s Bienal; but as one of Spain s main cultural exports flamenco is integral in top class festivals in France, USA, U.K and Italy.
Compiled by Songlines Magazine flamenco specialist Jan Fairley
The previous edition of Beginner s Guide to Flamenco was one of the most popular in the range having sold over 23,000 to date.
Featuring familiar and veteran names sequenced together with names known only amongst the flamenco community in Spain Beginner s Guide to Flamenco is full of vim and vigour as young singers like Rosario la Tremendita, David Lagos, Encarna Anillo appear alongside more established figures like La Macanita,
Miguel Poveda, Mayte Martín and Diego Carrasco.
Flamenco, that intriguing combination of voice, guitar, feet and palmas handclapping, is unrivalled as one of the few musical forms which directly expresses every possible emotion from joy to anger, celebration to grief, weeping to laughter, seriousness to joking. Flamenco captures and conjures up life and death.
Flamenco has been riding high in the world in recent decades as one of Europe s oldest yet contemporary, cutting-edge art forms. UNESCO s 2011 recognition of flamenco as Intangible Cultural Heritage has been welcomed enthusiastically in Spain. And that enthusiasm is felt all over Europe right down to the
dance aficionados (fans) who dance weekly in cities as far away from flamenco s Andaluz heartland as Edinburgh, Stockholm, Toulouse, Mexico City and Tokyo. Today, not only can the best be seen at Jerez at its annual festival and at Seville s Bienal; but as one of Spain s main cultural exports flamenco is integral in top class festivals in France, USA, U.K and Italy.
Compiled by Songlines Magazine flamenco specialist Jan Fairley
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By Gwen Taylor
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Good packaging, wrapped up nicely. Arrived on time! Just what I wanted. Can't fault it in any way at all.
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By Julie W
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Three whole CDs of flamenco may sound a bit of a chore to listen to, but the selection was really good and the most contemporary stuff is really excellent.
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Not the Flamenco I Know
7 Nov 2010
By James Yelvington
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If you're looking for traditional flamenco music you'll probably be quite disappointed with this collection. Although the description talks about following the history of flamenco from the earliest days up to today, these performances all have a contemporary sound. True, the sound quality is good; but unfortunately the performing style of nearly all the music here is nothing like what you might have heard in a cafe cantante or a spontaneous juerga of dyed-in-the-wool flamenco lovers.
There are definite modern jazz influences throughout the 3 disks--not just on the last one, which is admittedly neo-flamenco. And speaking of neo-flamenco, that is what this album probably should have been named: flamenco "updated" to the 21st century.
Specific problems: (1) though traditionally the cantaores always sang solo, here we have them sometimes singing together--and in harmony, no less; (2) rhythms are often syncopated as in modern jazz; (3) there is little feeling of spontaneity here, which was the soul of traditional flamenco.
I consider my purchase of this album to be a mistake.
There are definite modern jazz influences throughout the 3 disks--not just on the last one, which is admittedly neo-flamenco. And speaking of neo-flamenco, that is what this album probably should have been named: flamenco "updated" to the 21st century.
Specific problems: (1) though traditionally the cantaores always sang solo, here we have them sometimes singing together--and in harmony, no less; (2) rhythms are often syncopated as in modern jazz; (3) there is little feeling of spontaneity here, which was the soul of traditional flamenco.
I consider my purchase of this album to be a mistake.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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worth the price
16 Dec 2010
By Mito "Flamenquito" de Soto
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i agree with the point made about "neo-Flamenco", but there are diamonds in the rough here. Camarón with Tomatito, Miguel Poveda, Enrique Morente (one of my favorite recent cantaores) with Pepe Habichuela, Pepe also does a beautiful solo "Granadina", Gerardo Núñez with El Indio Gitano. It even has a piece by Pastora Pavón "La niña de los peines" her popular decades were the 1930's and 40's she was/is revered by all of us as a great female pioneer in Flamenco. And a Sevillana by Martirio, not the most traditional, but she never was nor wanted to be. Does it contain modern music? Does it have some Jazzy and Junky pieces not fashioned to be called Flamenco? ¡YES!, but for the money buy it. would i have bought it if it were $30-$40... probably not. but that is because i have plenty of music from many of these artists, of which, some you can not buy here in the states. It is entitled, "Beginners Guide..." which is what it is.
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