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Flamenco: Passion & Soul

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This CD is one of the best guitar oriented music in my collection!!! It is even better than D'Auri's previous release "Flamenco Mystico". The music is mainly the traditional flamenco guitar with modern touch, and some excellent cello works are added. The combination of flamenco and cello is extraordinary!!! The music is moody, soothing, and uplifting in some moments. Extremely beautiful!!!

Passion & Soul overwhelms with passages so beautiful, it's nearly impossible not to get swept up in the emotion, drama and joys forged by its master guitarist and cellist. Pyrotechnics be damned; this is music that doesn't waste one note to impress, but fills every measure to resonate long after the listener powers off the CD player. Film Music supervisors would do well to give this a listen for the sheer lyrical beauty of the mood inspiring melodies of "Ida Y Vuelta" and the truly breathtaking closing piece, "Paternera."

Gino D'Auri is Italian, but of Rom (Gypsy) descent. As the title promises, this CD is full of passion and soul as well as technical excellence. As D'Auri says in the liner notes, Flamenco is not just a lot of notes played really fast but the feeling the music imparts. This music conveys the Gypsy passion and soul, the joy and the pain, to perfection. Beautiful!

This CD is one of the best flamenco-fusion efforts heard in a long time. As good as "Passion Play" is, Gino D'Auri outdoes himself here with traditional flamenco guitar playing with the accompaniment of a fine cello, caja and other instruments to express his feeling for the music of Andalucia. All seven selections are superb, especially "Barrio San Miguel", a driving, pulsating bulerias that opens the recording. Gino is no longer with us but he left a legacy of excellent playing and feeling for "el arte" and expanded in his own way the horizons of flamenco.