Spanish language music: Flamenco

Flamenco Dancer I
by Caroline Gold
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CD Best of Armik [2003] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD Treasures [2004] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD Rubia [1996] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD Café romantico [2005] • LISTEN • BUY CD
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CD Gipsy Kings [1988] • LISTEN • BUY CD • REVIEW: More than any other band, the Gipsy Kings are responsible for the renewed interest in gypsy music, and this is the album that broke them through to the international mainstream. Although their carefully crafted music is not "pure" gypsy, their impassioned performances create a window for the uninitiated into the deeper world of flamenco and other styles. If you're not a purist, the Gipsy Kings provide powerful, highly contagious, mostly acoustic music that may represent a new form of contemporary gypsy music for the masses; or you can view it as pure pop. This disc lays down their trademark mix of guitars, handclaps, and percussion over 12 varied tracks ranging from intense dance numbers to passionate love songs such as "Un Amor." Linking it all together are the throaty, emotional vocals, notably those of Nicolas Reyes, evoking the smoky campfires of his underprivileged brethren where this highly polished music originated. -- Review by Derek Rath

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CD Toma Ketama [2000] • LISTEN

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CD Nouveau flamenco: 1990-2000 [2000] • LISTEN • BUY CD • REVIEW: This is where it all began. Ten years ago, Ottmar Liebert brought flamenco music to the world with a new style of playing he dubbed, appropriately, nouveau flamenco. Ten years later, despite such adventurous CDs as Opium and The Hours Between Night and Day, Nouveau Flamenco remains his most popular CD. The reasons are obvious. Although Liebert is a technically gifted player, he lets the melodies of his flamenco-inspired tunes ring out over his own virtuosity. That's what makes songs like "Barcelona Nights" and "Sante Fe" so memorable. Nouveau Flamenco spawned countless imitators, some of them even very good, but this CD instantly reveals why Liebert has managed to be the top-of-the-brain name for modern flamenco music. On Nouveau Flamenco: 1990-2000, they've remixed everything, extended some tracks out a bit and brought in five additional pieces recorded at the same time as the original CD. The resequencing may throw off your memories of the original, and the mix here tends to be thinner and less reverberant, but one decade and millions of CD sales later, Nouveau Flamenco still lives up to its title. -- Review by John Diliberto

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| CD The Best of Ottmar Liebert [2001] • Vol. 1: Barcelona Nights LISTEN • BUY CD • Vol. 2: Surrender to Love LISTEN • BUY CD

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CD Luzia [1998] • LISTEN • BUY CD • REVIEW: Though he's recognized as flamenco's premier guitarist--with few contenders save for Tomatito, Pepe Habichuela, and Manolo Sanlúcar--Paco de Lucía has met with decades of controversy for his hybridization of the form with bossa, salsa, and jazz; for influencing flamenco-rock renegades like Ketama and Pata Negra; and for his legendary, cultivated arrogance. Albums like Luzia, named for his late mother, restore the balance: true flamenco puro of the highest order, it's a brooding reinvention from within, particularly in its complex harmonies and polyrhythms, forged around time-honored forms like bulerías and alegrías. The bustling bulería "El Chorruelo" is simply blood-boiling, a surging virtuosity at work over rapid key shifts and melodic firestorms. Written for his late collaborator--bad-boy singer Camarón de la Isla--the closing solo "Camarón" is meditative, joyous, forlorn, incensed, and sublime; in short, the real deal. A startlingly good set from a true master. -- Review by James Rotondi

CD Antologia [1996] • Vol. 1 LISTEN • BUY CD / Vol. 2 LISTEN

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CD Aires flamenco [1998] • LISTEN • BUY CD

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CD In a Minute [1998] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD Veloz [1994] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD Las cigarras son quiza sordas [1991] • LISTEN • BUY CD | CD 10 de Paco [1995] • LISTEN

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Live CD Arte y pasión [1999] • LISTEN

CD Flamenco Guitar [2000] • LISTEN

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CD Flamenco on Fire [1999] • LISTEN

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