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Son de la Frontera | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: World Village USA
• ASIN: B000OY6HZO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,995 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous modern flamenco from Seville, February 27, 2008

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cal (Audio CD)

Son De La Frontera are a dynamic new flamenco group from Seville, Spain that plays raw-boned, energetic Spanish flamenco, with a warm stylistic twist. Guitarist Raul Rodriguez introduces the double-stringed Cuban tres guitar into the flamenco ouvre, and the cross-cultural experiment pays high dividends. The mellifluous tres, which lends itself to melodic improvisation, adds a fluidity to the ofttimes severe flamenco style, while the crushing muscularity of flamenco gives the tres a bit of a goose, demanding it be played with more authority and force. Mostly, though, this is a traditionalist album, with Rodriguez and his cohorts taking up the mantle from one of Seville's master musicians, Diego del Gastor, who developed much of the group's repertoire. If you enjoy flamenco with its original raw, elemental power, the thunderous chords and keening vocals, then this second album -- like their debut from a couple of years earlier -- will knock your socks off. Recommended! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue music reviews)