Flamenco Sketches (Three Lists for Soulful Night)

siempre, siempre: jardin de mi agonia,
tu cuerpo fugitivo para siempre,
la sangre de tus venas en mi boca,
tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte.
-Gacela del Amor Imprevisto, Federico Garcia Lorca.

Flamenco Sketches

01. Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Kind Of Blue (50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) (2008)
02. Manuel el de Angustias & Eduardo el de la Malena - Soleares de Utrera
Archivo del Cante Flamenco CD 2 (1969)
03. Sabicas - Aires primitivos (Siguiriya)
Sabicas Con las voces de Camarón, Manolo Soto (1990)
04. Miriam Méndez - Concierto En Sol M, 1er Mov. (Bulería)
Bach Por Flamenco (2005)
05. Sabicas - Fantasia Inca
Flamenco On Fire (Legacy, 1999)
06. Manolito el de María & Fernández el Negro - Bulerías de Cádiz
Archivo del Cante Flamenco CD 3 (1969)

note: A list about one song, Miriam Mendez’es composition of flamenco and Bach. I’ve been listening to it for 3 days now. The utterly modern piano approach combined with an old traditional style gives such tension, I keep looking for the secret that makes it works. The dynamic of the song simply captures the tension of two distant styles being in one body.

see also: Starbucks Blues, Three Lists for Soulful Night
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5 Comments »

  1. Marcel Weiß said, August 21, 2009 @ 5:53 am

    Wow, that one from Miriam Mendez is so great. Thank you!

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  3. SnailKid said, August 25, 2009 @ 7:00 pm

    This list is typical of why I check motel de moka as often as humanly possible while at work OR at home. Astonishing. More flamenco please.

    Funny, some of the pace, emotion, vocal stylings & chromaticism reminds me of rebetika and even a little qawali.

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  5. Zuz said, April 17, 2010 @ 11:28 am

    Looking into the past is great but what about the future of flamenco? Sure, Sabicas, Paco, Vicente Amigo are great but where is the generation of new players, and most importantly new COMPOSERS? Why doesn’t anyone compose stuff that is as good or… wait, BETTER than Paco’s?

    I know a guitarist who does. Tell me he is not the best composer you have listened to, recently.
    http://www.myspace.com/evancary

    - Zuz

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