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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zyryab- transcends the genre,
By Rick Heiman (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zyryab (Audio CD)
I have listened to Paco for years, and still feel I am learning about his brilliance. As a choreographer, I have long been fascinated with the challenge of choreographing the title track, and now, as artistic director of Dance Romanesque, a Bay Area modern dance company, I am well underway with it...I am approaching Zyryab not as a flamenco piece, but as a truly classical piece of music which transcends the flamenco movement vocabulary (great though it is)- Zyryab is intense, lyrical and jazzy, and these are the qualities I hope will come out in my finished dance. Paco's work has also led me back to Al Di Meola, another guitar genius whom I will "tackle" choreographically later this year, probably a cut from one of his compilation albums featuring his work with Chick Corea, Paco and John Mac, among others. As a dance artist who takes pride in selecting the best music (I have recently worked with music by Chopin and Schubert among others), I am thrilled that there are great contemporary geniuses like Paco and Al D. out there who combine soul and technical virtuosity in such great proportions, the perfect antidote to a "modern classical" world dominated by Glass and his watered down ilk.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
best of best, true music lover's music...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Zyryab (Audio CD)
Thousand words could be written about flamenco, dance, music and song. To me a few words are sufficient. Gypsies are free, were meant to be free, they are proud to be free. That shows in their music, in their singing, in their dance. Zyryab is a fitting homage to an inspired man of yesterday that first had the idea to add a sixth string to an instrument that had traveled from as far back as India, possibly even China, Mongolia and Manchuria, from the ends of the world to South Spain, way back in the 13th century. The rest is history: Hendrix, Clapton, Segovia, Dylan, Paco. The title track is a masterpiece of composition, taste, ingenuity, flawless execution, arrangement, syncopation, melody, in this reviewer opinion, a par to any major composer's work: Debussy, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven. Paco playing alone during major solo's shows music, melody, harmony, technical supremacy of the guitar as an instrument by itself as the most complex, most sophisticated, more so than piano or violin, ever. All of this made by a people that were once and during a large period of history shot on sight, persecuted, murdered, alienated. Their desire to be free prevailed. The result is music, divine music. The Almonte track has a little arrangenment of singers, flute, violins, an inspired theme that easily surpasses Carl Orf's Carmina Burana or Saint-Saens Aquarius in grace and beauty: magical duendes speaking, loving, making music, dancing and singing, down a road full of heart. Just to show what the desire to be free can do. Wish they played it forever...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Paco keeps exploring,
By A Customer
This review is from: Zyryab (Audio CD)
I especially like the brief singing of Potito on this cd. I wish paco would have let him sing more. T Martínez-Medley
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