recently i want my taste in music to like more expandable..so with that said i'm starting on traditional european music..my first country SPAIN!..so anyone recommend anything from the genre known as flamenco, such as singers,guitarists,etc...thank you..
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I don't know a lot but Camarón de la Isla has always been considered the best.

Paco de Lucía is probably the most famous flamenco guitar player ever.

And then Ketama have the most popular appeal though I don't know for the foreign taste...(it's not pure flamenco , more like fusion)

Good luck with your experiment

yes love it

PANDURITO said:

CHIC0 said:

What?
Amazed at my knowledge on the subject?

Or maybe at my lack of it?

PANDURITO said:

i thought you told me you didn't like Flamenco

CHIC0 said:

I don't
That's why I'm showing my cultural limitations
I didn't even mention Vicente Amigo or Tomatito as famous guitar players.

Flamenco is hard to enjoy. You have to know it very well to really appreciaty it. Kinda like jazz or classical in our days. It's music for people with an acquired taste
Music for grown-ups and I'm just a kid

dance with me Pan


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CHIC0 said:

I meant you gotta learn to enjoy it. You have said you listened to it ever since you were a kid

JustErin

awesome

I like flamenco, but I dig even more a Spanish band called 'Radio Tarifa'. Based in Madrid, they play music which kind of brings together the old medieval sounds of Muslim and early Christian Spain, with the similar sounds then coming out of Morocco, like 20 miles across the water.

This may sound slightly boring and historical, but this is basically the roots of flamenco and other later Spanish styles. They use electric and acoustic guitars and bass, as well as neys (haunting sounding Arab flutes) and the overall effect sounds like super-passionate flamenco crossed with Arab sounds. They are actually one of my favourate bands. They have a great range, from soft, melancholy, 'night-time' versions of old Spanish and gypsy folk songs to ferocious, super fast, intricate tunes that sound like flamenco on acid.

I own two of their albums - 'Cruzando el Rio' (2001), which has a lovely range of tunes on it. They even bring in a Japanese koto on one tune. And then there's their burnin' 'live in Canada' album, 'Fiebre' (2003), which is truly intense. Both are on World Circuit Records.

The rhythms are riveting and the melodies are haunting. Miles recommends to the open-minded music fan.

the ney is a beautiful instrument isn't it?

M

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