Estevan could smoke a cigar, have some tio pepe....eat a few gambas and smell the Ocean breeze come up from La Linea de Concepcion and he still wouldn't get this groove. These guys are born hearing this stuff as children...it's ingrained in their core...they hear the singing "El Cante Ondo" ....the clapping of the hands...the castanuelas, the dance. The Spanish Gypsy grows up with this...It's like the grapes on the vineyards in Andalucia.. It wouldn't have the same texture and boque.
@lousparre The gipsies come to Spain around year 1415 from the zone of Punjab "Pakistan" searching a hotest place and the roots of Flamenco are a mixture between Bizant chants, Sefardies chants (Spanish Jews) and Arab music mainly even some hindu tones from the gipsies. Flamenco was born around s. XVIII in down Andalucia
western music is not only geografical term.It's mostly from musical aspect..if you have theoretical knowledge in music you will realise that flamenco comes closer to eastern music due to the heavy influence of the arabic people who occupied for centuries..western music is such a different kind of story from this music with its beauty
@aks73 so true been a huge rock and metal fan most of my life, playing metallica and led zepellin licks and solos... but I just started flamenco and honestly, the skill required to play Flamenco is just on a much much much higher level.
@MURDOCMULDOON yeah but flamenco has so much arabic influence it's hard to call it "western" at all. Plus the time signatures, if you even want to call them that, are anything but "western."
However, the backbone is the European classical guitar, in both the instrument, the forms of composition and the hand techniques (arpeggios, picados, tremolo etc). The arabic Lute (Oud) shares much in color, but little in structure and arrangement style. We can go even deeper, as Arabic music was influenced by Indian music, which in turn is influenced was Chinese music and other oriental cultures. Flamenco connects all this to Europe and thus to the Americas :)
How did the gipsies get to Spain? (through the Arab world) Was Spain not part of the Arab world for centuries and centuries? i.e. Umayyad Caliphate etc. A lot of the tonalitites of flamenco sound arabian to me and a lot of other people too... the phrygian vibe etc. but maybe you're right. I haven't listened to a lot of Arabian guitar or laud or whatever in my lifetime so take this comment with a grain of salt.
its not ugly alone this coms from a gypsy guitar player and it looks very nice withe white brown or black plate and true the clear is useful but people need color in life
@revecaballa pueees se respeta tu opinion, pero yo creo que cuando estuvo en su mejor tiempo tomatito(para mi cuando toco con camaron, paco y de solista,por los años de este video), si andaba en su nivel, pero no fue tan tracendente como paco, quien encontro una buena forma de inovar combinando con el jazz y trabajado con otros grandes autores, tomatito quiso probar con cosas nuevas al iwal que paco pero no destaco tanto. en fin, los dos excelentes guitarristas, y el flamenco fenomenal
I think you're wrouçng saying that this music hasn't arabic influences. In fact the guitar was created acord to the wishes of an arabic sultan (Zyriab) wo lived in Spain during the Arabic domination (a 400 years of solid domination by the way). Pay atention to the use of the thumb finger, it emulates de use of the Laud pick. Anyway the gipsies had made a big conribution to this music, as the jews or the arabs.
Lo que ya esta´ dicho, y yo lo repito, Son los Reyes de la Guitarra Flamenca, Paco de Lucia , Tomatito, Paco Cepero etc. etc A mi gusta , y CDS tengo de estos grandes Artistas uin monton´
