"RITO Y GEOGRAFÍA DEL TOQUE" (VIDEO N° 5.)

DIEGO DEL GASTOR : from the series Rito y Geografía del Cante, Diego Flores Amaya « Diego del Gastor » (Arriate, Málaga, 1908) - Morón de La Frontera, Sevilla, 1973) is heard in alegrías, an interview, seguiriyas ; he accompanies por bulería a series of alboreás sung by Joselero de Morón, and plays soleares.

TOMATITO : from the programme Flamenco in colour, presented by F. Quiñones, José Fernández Torres « Tomatito » (born Almería 1958), together with Jorge Pardo (flute), Carlos Benavent (bass), Juan Habichuela « hijo », Rubén Dantas (percussions), Romerito de Algeciras, Guadiana, José Soto « Sordera », Tino de Madrid (palmas), are heard in bulerías, an interview, in bulerías in the tonality of a taranto, and in tangos.

MISCELLANY N°1, WITH MANUEL MORAO, PEDRO BACÁN, PACO DE LUCÍA, MANOLO SANLÚCAR : interviews of Rafael del Aguila (Jerez, 1900-76) ; Manuel Moreno Jiménez « Manuel Morao » (Jerez 1929) plays soleares ; Pedro Peña Fernández « Pedro Bacán » (Lebrija, 1939-1997) plays tarantas ; Paco de Lucía plays bulerías ; the cantaor Juan Peña « El Lebrijano » is interviewed ; Manuel Muñoz Alcón « Manolo Sanlúcar » (born Sanlúcar de Barrameda, 1945) plays seguiriyas.

Comments : again moving images of the legendary Diego del Gastor shortly before his death, taking a walk in Morón, in a gathering with friends, talking about the toque, interpreting alegrías, seguiriyas, and soleares solo, and accompanying his cousin Joselero in bulerías in masterly fashion and with a duende worthy of his legend. El Tomatito, emerging from his recent recording of La leyenda del tiempo (1979) with Camarón, interprets various rhythmic pieces with the intensely gypsy expression which sets him apart from all others, accompanied by a first version of the Paco de Lucía sextet, Juan Carmona the second guitar of the Ketama group, and the palmas of the no less famous celebrities of today’s Guadiana, José Soto « Sorderita » (then « Sotito de Jerez ») and Tino. Then follow an interview of Rafael del Aguila, the disciple of Javier Molina and master of the current generation of Jerez guitar-players ; Manuel Morao in one of the earliest expressions of that unmistakable Jerez toque ; a youthful Pedro Bacán interpreting with great virtuosity one of his earliest tarantas ; Paco de Lucía in bulerías accompanied by Camaron’s knuckles in a flamenco gathering ; Turronero and Paco Cepero ; Juan Peña « el Lebrijano », then a youthful upholder of the classical flamenco tradition, expressing his opinion on the toque of the early 70’s ; Manolo Sanlúcar playing por seguiriya his « Elegia al Niño Ricardo », the master who had just died when this recording was made in 1972 (Sanlúcar recorded this piece that same year in vol. 2 of his Mundo y Formas de la Guitarra Flamenca). Those documents form a superb miscellany which illustrates the coexistence of the traditional toque and the renewal then in its early stages.

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