Customer Reviews

Flaming Flamenco

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If you're interested in the music of the great Manitas De Plata, buy another album. The music on here is wonderful, but the sound quality is awful. So overdriven at times that it is hard to listen to. I should probably give it less stars, but I don't want it to reflect on the music.

Manitas de Plata, a unique guitarist in his own right. More so because he seems to make up his stuff as he is playing and very loosely follows traditional flamenco compas. He is, without a doubt, technically gifted but like mentioned before, Manitas is in his own world, whether it be flamenco or not. His sound is unique and has all but been rejected from flamenco aficionados. I enjoy his music but if I were to get up and dance or provide palmas to his music, I wouldn't know where to begin or proceed. There really isn't any structure to his music.

My 3 star rating is not based on the music of this cd but rather how it was recorded. I kid you not, it sounds exactly like it was recorded with a low budget camcorder. The audio is not full or rich, it lacks the lower frequencies and there is absolutely no impact. All you hear is treble and midrange in the upper registers. Listen to samples of each song on iTunes and decide for yourself if you can live with the audio.