Video Find of the Day
A Flamenco guitar version of the song that gets my vote for best of the 20th Century. Tomatito is a popular name of José Fernández Torres
Tomatito - Bésame mucho
Showing posts with label flamenco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flamenco. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Four Generations of Flamenco
Video Find of the Day
A couple of videos from a 2005 documentary called Herencias Flamenca. IMDB has nothing to say about the content of the film as a whole but the video descriptions say it chronicles "four generations of a gitano musical dynasty." The clips show a family reunion. I especially like the kids and the old people.
familia habichuela por bulerias
I couldn't embed the second one -- Los Habichuela -Ketama juerga flamenca, "The Flamenco Clan" -- but it's here.
A couple of videos from a 2005 documentary called Herencias Flamenca. IMDB has nothing to say about the content of the film as a whole but the video descriptions say it chronicles "four generations of a gitano musical dynasty." The clips show a family reunion. I especially like the kids and the old people.
familia habichuela por bulerias
I couldn't embed the second one -- Los Habichuela -Ketama juerga flamenca, "The Flamenco Clan" -- but it's here.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
La Peña Flamenca de Seattle
Video Find of the Day
When I stupidly deleted the videos I made of Flamenco dances last Sunday at Folklife one of the performances I lost was very similar to this one, provided by PenaFlamencaSeattle themselves. I put it here to console myself.
La Peña Flamenca de Seattle: Bulerías
When I stupidly deleted the videos I made of Flamenco dances last Sunday at Folklife one of the performances I lost was very similar to this one, provided by PenaFlamencaSeattle themselves. I put it here to console myself.
La Peña Flamenca de Seattle: Bulerías
Monday, December 17, 2007
Sevillanas @ Phinney Ridge
Video Find of the Day
I was in the mood for Flamenco tonight, but I wasn't expecting I'd find it from Phinney Ridge. Zamani Flamenco at the Phinney Neighborhod Association, just two weeks ago.
Zamani Flamenco: Sevillanas
I was in the mood for Flamenco tonight, but I wasn't expecting I'd find it from Phinney Ridge. Zamani Flamenco at the Phinney Neighborhod Association, just two weeks ago.
Zamani Flamenco: Sevillanas
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Paco de Lucía
Video Find of the Day
One more flamenco video! This is my new favorite flamenco guitarist and composer since I found this video. He was doing this in 1976. Almoraima is the name of the piece and the album. A review of the album is here. Unfortunately the only real media links to the music there that worked for me are the ones for the Almoraima and Ole tracks.
Paco de lucia - Almoraima Falseta.-Bulerias
One more flamenco video! This is my new favorite flamenco guitarist and composer since I found this video. He was doing this in 1976. Almoraima is the name of the piece and the album. A review of the album is here. Unfortunately the only real media links to the music there that worked for me are the ones for the Almoraima and Ole tracks.
Paco de lucia - Almoraima Falseta.-Bulerias
Monday, September 17, 2007
La Tobala
Video Find of the Day
Tientos is a cognate of English tentative. Both come from words meaning to feel or try out. Tientos is an old style of improvisational flamenco that has no set rules and is largely imitative. The following video is titled, "Tientos y Tangos." I looked for the tangos and didn't see them, so I looked it up, and sure enough, tangos means something altogether different in connection with flamenco from the familiar South American tango dances. It's a style of music with a set rhythm played in Phrygian mode. Phrygian mode has been described as playing the white keys only. It's the same as medieval Dorian mode. That's more music theory than I can handle in one sitting. The video is awesome. The singer is Juana Salazar (La Tobala), and the guitarist is her husband Pedro Sierra.
I don't know why she's called La Tobala. I did find that it was the name of a variety of agave. Maybe that's it.
Tientos y tangos de La Tobala
Tientos is a cognate of English tentative. Both come from words meaning to feel or try out. Tientos is an old style of improvisational flamenco that has no set rules and is largely imitative. The following video is titled, "Tientos y Tangos." I looked for the tangos and didn't see them, so I looked it up, and sure enough, tangos means something altogether different in connection with flamenco from the familiar South American tango dances. It's a style of music with a set rhythm played in Phrygian mode. Phrygian mode has been described as playing the white keys only. It's the same as medieval Dorian mode. That's more music theory than I can handle in one sitting. The video is awesome. The singer is Juana Salazar (La Tobala), and the guitarist is her husband Pedro Sierra.
I don't know why she's called La Tobala. I did find that it was the name of a variety of agave. Maybe that's it.
Tientos y tangos de La Tobala
Monday, June 18, 2007
Flamenco, Subtitled
Video Find of the Day
Petenera is a style of Flamenco. This video has the rare subtitles, so we Spanish-impaired get to know what all the emotional singing is about. "My killers can get their knives ready:"
I'll be sentenced to death / if they see me talking to you / my killers can / oh mother of my heart / my killers can / get their knives ready / I'll be sentenced to death / if they see me talking to you / ay, I'm as tough as a stone / I've been through so much torment and pain / so I wouldn't feel / oh my lover/ so I wouldn't feel / the wounds in my heart / ay, I needed to be so tough.
Petenera is a style of Flamenco. This video has the rare subtitles, so we Spanish-impaired get to know what all the emotional singing is about. "My killers can get their knives ready:"
I'll be sentenced to death / if they see me talking to you / my killers can / oh mother of my heart / my killers can / get their knives ready / I'll be sentenced to death / if they see me talking to you / ay, I'm as tough as a stone / I've been through so much torment and pain / so I wouldn't feel / oh my lover/ so I wouldn't feel / the wounds in my heart / ay, I needed to be so tough.
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