"RITO Y GEOGRAFÍA DEL TOQUE" (6 video tapes)

A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON FLAMENCO GUITAR,
Presented by Norberto Torres Cortés.
Translation by Pierre Lefranc.

The year 2000 opens with an event for years undreamt-of by guitar players, aficionados, and music lovers in general : the edition in the form of videos of most of the archives of Spanish Television (Televisión Española) concerning flamenco guitar. They range from the year 1964 with Niño Ricardo, Ricardo Modrego, and a then 16-year old Paco de Lucía, to Tomatito at his most gypsy in the 1979 record La Leyenda del Tiempo, and they include in between Serranito, Manolo Sanlucar, Enrique de Melchor, Pepe Habichuela, Diego Carrasco, Paco Cepero, Andrés Batista, Pedro Bacán, Paco de Lucía and Camarón in 1972, together with those classically-oriented : Melchor de Marchena, Diego del Gastor, Manuel Morao, Pedro Peña, Felix de Utrera, Manolo el Sevillano, and… Sabicas « live » in one of the last concerts he gave. Thus a total of 16 years of flamenco guitar are made available visually. The period 1964-1979 was an extraordinary one for flamenco, owing to the coexistence of tradition and a rising new generation, then innovative, now classical, which was establishing the foundations of today’s toque (style of playing). If we add to this the interviews and commentaries made in those days, mainly by José María Velázquez and Fernando Quiñones, we can evaluate the undreamt-of magnitude of what is being offered to us by Alga Editores. Although, unavoidably, most of the images are in black and white, and the sound is of a less high quality than it would be today, one can submit that this is an added merit : it brings us in contact with the authenticity of a period in which the detestable « play-back » was not yet a standard technique.

• VIDEO N° 1.
• VIDEO N° 2.
• VIDEO N° 3.
• VIDEO N° 4.
• VIDEO N° 5.
• VIDEO N° 6.

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