Paco De Lucia - Which Cd should I purchase?

Ive just heard a track featuring Paco De Lucia. It was some flamenco music and sounded really awesome. Can anyone recommend some Cds worth listening to!!

Probably them all!!

 

The only complete album I have is "Luzia", which is great, kind of modern jazz flamenco. But from his catalogue on Amazon, I suggest you decide what aspect appeals to you, and pick accordingly, i.e., do you want renditions of spanish classical pieces by Rodrigo, Albeniz; flamenco like Gypsy Kings, Strunz & Fara, Manitas de Plata; or fusion-type jazz like Al Di Meola, McLaughlin, Mahavishnu. You could try www.gnoosic.com to see who comes up close or listen to some samples from somewhere.

 

Castro Marin and Entre Dos Aguas are well worth looking-out for; the first is my favourite, with real duende.

Sooner or later somone will mention Friday Night in San Francisco, with Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin - it seems to be a hifi nerd fave, but musically only to be taken in very small doses AFAICT.

 

hi, one of his best flamenco albums is siroco "1987" mercury label,regards nando.

 

Hi,
If you are looking for Cante Jondo, you need to look at his early albums and particularly his collaboration during the 70s with the great cantaor Cameron de la Isla.
Anway, here are some recirds of his that I like
Fuente y Caudal
El mundo del Flamenco
And a couple with Cameron:
Soy caminante
Canastera
There are plenty more. www.flamenco-world.com is your friend.

 

Thanks everyone - I have a very eclectric tase in music and most of what Ive heard by Paco De Lucia is brilliant. I found a double album on Amazon called antologia - it arrived today and Ive played it through twice already. Now I'll need to explore his music more.

 

Flamenco is a beautiful medium per se, I love it!!

Purists hate flamenco crossover, but I think it's a really exciting area.

Hope you have fun exploring flamenco.

 

Interestingly enough I was searching for Tango music when I came across Paco de Lucia for the first time!!!!

 

For the tango try Astor Piazzolla

 

Flamenco, as a cross of Arab and Indian music formed in Southern Europe by an itinerant sub-class is fusion to begin with.
An awful lot of modern "traditional" flamenco is fusion in the sense that it is quite different to the cante jondo of the early to mid 20th century which was formed in the tablao of Madrid and Barcelona and so itself no doubt very different to the flamenco of the 19th century and earlier.
Tango, now an integral part of the repertoire, is of course a South American import, although Flamenco Tango and Tanguillo are not particularly close to the real thing (more an excuse to add some syncopation here and there in fact)
Rhythms are often provided not only by hand clapping (palmas), but by a percussionist using the cajones which is a wooden resonator. This is, in fact, a Peruvian instrument with its origin in Africa (and brought to Peru by black slaves).
The problem with most fusion flamenco is that the various bits, whether they be rock, jazz, "world" or even hip hop (mercy), are just not very good.
Even when they are the results are often not terribly organic. Tomatito's wonderful session with the great Egyptian singer Sheikh Ahmed al Tuni is a good example. It is wonderful music, but the various bits don't quite gel. In this casr, there is a benefit in that this sets up some powerful tensions. (Vengo)
Flamenco has long been an influence in North Africa. Listen to Rai and you will often hear some bits of flamenco or at least nods in that general direction. Said Chraibi, one of my favourite udists, incorporates some flamenco motifs into his music


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Enough of the rambling. To paraphrase Eddy Merckx, listen lots.

 

To paraphrase Eddy Merckx, llisten lots.

I intend to - Thanks everyone

 

my favourites...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaleo-Louis...=sr_1_7/202-9388458-4640609?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calima-Gera...=sr_1_1/202-9388458-4640609?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bari-Ojos-B...pd_ka_2/202-9388458-4640609?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

 

paco..flamenco

also try yasmin levy, she is typical of the mixture of all the influence of various countries and tribes of origen that flamenco brings, super. nando.