Flamenco

[EssentialTension]

Watching flamenco show in back street in Sanlucar de Barrameda in Andalucia ~ usual dancers and singer and clapping and guitarist but also guy doubling on flute, soprano sax and button harmonica - sounds like ennio morricone meets herbie mann doing jazz flamenco with bitter and twisted passion. And another glass of tinto.

[Zenitram]

Forget the tinto, you're in Sanlúcar! It's manzanilla time.

And "bitter and twisted passion" is what flamenco is all about.

Enjoy!

[EssentialTension]

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Forget the tinto, you're in Sanlúcar! It's manzanilla time.

And "bitter and twisted passion" is what flamenco is all about.

Enjoy!
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Too much cerveza and tinto to start on the manzanilla tonight ~ I would have lost the duende.

[Bilbo]

Nuevo Flamenco is the thing!!

[EssentialTension]

For anyone interested, the Sanlucar tablao was Raquel Villegas Gomez con su grupo.

Edited August 7, 2015 by EssentialTension

[seashell]

Wonderful. I flirted with flamenco dancing some years ago. Lovely stuff. Not easy, but sometimes I wish I'd persevered with it. Especially as it is a form of dance that you can do at any age.

[MoonBassAlpha]

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Wonderful. I flirted with flamenco dancing some years ago. Lovely stuff. Not easy, but sometimes I wish I'd persevered with it. Especially as it is a form of dance that you can do at any age.
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Along with "dad dancing", of course...

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1439060115' post='2839740']
Wonderful. I flirted with flamenco dancing some years ago. Lovely stuff. Not easy, but sometimes I wish I'd persevered with it. Especially as it is a form of dance that you can do at any age.
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It is never too late to start.

Mrs ET has always danced one way or another but flamenco for about 10 years now.

[EssentialTension]

Saw another fantastic show in Sevilla last night.

[EssentialTension]

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Along with "dad dancing", of course...
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My son said I danced like a drunken robot. Given that my dance influences are Ray Charles and Leslie Phillips, I took it as a compliment.

[KiOgon]

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My son said I danced like a drunken robot. Given that my dance influences are Ray Charles and Leslie Phillips, I took it as a compliment.
[/quote]I say - ding dong!

Edited August 9, 2015 by KiOgon

[EssentialTension]

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I say - ding dong!
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Well, hellooooooooo ....

[MacDaddy]

MacWifey and I go the the flamenco festival each year at Saddlers Wells [size=4] [/size]

[EssentialTension]

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MacWifey and I go the the flamenco festival each year at Saddlers Wells [size=4] [/size]
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Yes, very good, been to that a couple of times.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

I love flamenco on the acoustic guitars .
It just looks so difficult , but the players do it with ease.
Some of it can go on a bit on record , but some is great .
Recommend me some good stuff to listen to.

[Zenitram]

Camarón de la Isla is the undisputed godfather of 20th-century flamenco, so he's the touchstone of everything, really.

[EssentialTension]

Camarón de la Isla sang often with guitarist Paco de Lucia. They also worked with a guitarist known as Tomatito.

Also worth checking, in my view, is Enrique Morente.

I'll think of a few more in a minute.

[EssentialTension]

Also, I very much like the Italian born Gino D'Auri.

[Bilbo]

Tomatito did an interesting album with Michel Camilo but I prefer his own flamenco thing. I got into flamenco in a big way many years ago but, sadly, had to leave it behind. I LOVE listening to Nuevo Flamenco but it is not something that I can ever get involved in because there are only a few flamenco guitarists in Felixstowe* and they are all a bit old school for me.

* are there f***.

[CHW]

I had the fun of sharing a bill in the South of France with a flamenco company, alongside a morris dancing team, I was playing melodeon for the morris dancers and I had some great time communicating with the musicians with points and grunts. They were genuinely shocked and surprised at the English rumpty tumpty playing style and seemed pretty impressed.

[EssentialTension]

Loads of links here ...

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