"RITO Y GEOGRAFÍA DEL TOQUE" (VIDEO N° 6.)

MISCELLANY N° 2 WITH MANUEL MORAO, MELCHOR DE MARCHENA, PEDRO PEÑA, PACO DE LUCÍA, DIEGO DEL GASTOR : from the series Rito y Geografía del Cante, with Manuel Morao in seguiriyas, Melchor de Marchena in tarantos, an interview of Pedro Peña who sings and plays soleares, Paco de Lucía in rondeñas, and Diego del Gastor in bulerías.

MISCELLANY N° 3 WITH FELIX DE UTRERA, CONDE HERMANOS, MANUEL MORAO, MANOLO SEVILLANO : from FLAMENCO, Antología de Cante y Baile andaluces, Felix de Utrera is heard in tientos ; comments on the making of guitars in the workshop of the brothers Conde ; Manuel Morao plays seguiriyas ; El Calderas de Salamanca (song) and Manolo Sevillano (guitar) are heard in peteneras, and Juan Cantero (song), Matilde España (dance) and Manolo Sevillano (guitar) in tangos.

SABICAS : a performance in homage to Sabicas, on the occasion of his demise in 1990, with views of his funeral and of Pamplona ; Sabicas in alegrías in A minor and in « Temas del Pueblo », la Niña de la Puebla, Pepe Montoya « Montoyita », and Laura Toledo evoke Sabicas who plays « La Comparsita » and a granaina.

Comments : the Miscellany which opens this video completes that of the previous one by illustrating several toques by traditionalists and solos by the current renovators, with some curious shots of the guitar-player-cum-singer Pedro Peña Fernández « Pedro Peña » (Lebrija, 1939), father of the piano-player Dorantes, brother of the singer Juan Peña « El Lebrijano », and cousin of Pedro Bacán ; Pedro Peña achieves the feat of singing and accompanying himself in soleares, with his mother La Perrata embroidering on the rhythm with her knuckles. We also see Paco de Lucía performing his famous rondeña « Doblan Campanas » from the record El Duende (1972) ; he concludes it here with the ending of his earlier rondeña recorded in La Fabulosa Guitarra (1967) and revealingly includes allusions to the rondeña « Cueva del Gato » which he recorded four or five years later in Almoraima (1976) : one more proof that maturity came to Paco de Lucía before he made records.

The last miscellany shows us the « official » guitar-player of Hispavox, Felix García Vizcaíno « Felix de Utrera » (born in the Canaries 1929), playing tientos a la Niño Ricardo ; it takes us on a visit to the workshop of the Madrid guitar-makers Hermanos Conde, against the musical background of a zorongo played by Ricardo Modrego ; Manuel Morao at his most sublime in seguiriyas ; the toque of Manuel Antilla León « Manolo el Sevillano » (Marchena 1910, Madrid 1988), acompanying in peteneras Rafael Salazar Motos « Calderas de Salamanca », and Juan Cantero in tangos extremeños danced by Matilde España.

The series could not end better than by rendering homage to Agustín Castellón Campos « Sabicas » (Pamplona 1912 - New York18 April 1990) one of the greatest guitar-players of all times, with a report on his native town and house, his multitudinous and grief-stricken funeral, an evocation of his friends and familiars like la Niña de la Puebla, Montoyita and Laura Toledo, and various extracts from one of the last concerts Sabicas gave, with his famous alegrías in A major which incline towards the jota, « Temas del Pueblo », the popular tune « Los Cuatro Muleros » as arranged by the master, the most famous Río de la Plata tango by M. Rodríguez « La Comparsita », which the gypsy from Pamplona included in 1969 in his record Tres guitarras tiene Sabicas, and a tremendously modern granaina.

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