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Vicente Amigo and El Pele
Perhaps the album's most outstanding feature is precisely its
legibility.
Vicente Amigo: It's understandable, but it's very deep, deep, deep...
I'm going to say it's the deepest thing that's been done since... There's also
his voice and his way of singing, which is so deep when he's at that place. I've
known him for a long time and I know what that place is. And you don't have to
understand or anything. That just reaches your soul and it reaches your head and
everywhere; I think that's what reaches people.
And I talked about it being a well-rounded album because it's very difficult
to find a pop, rock, jazz or whatever album that you swallow whole and you play
it again... and with flamenco the same. In that sense, the analysis has to be
opened up to debate. When they say that the Grammy is very good... Yes, but the
Grammy awards that are very good are the main Grammies, not the rest. You compare
the album... although you shouldn't compare because we might be disrespectful
towards this album, but anyway... it might seem like what I don't want it to seem
like; pedantry. Far from it. I thing it's a way of respecting what we do; for
me it's at the same level as any pop, rock or jazz star... because this is flamenco,
but it's an awesome album no matter where you play it, in Japan, in China... I'm
sure it'll hurt people to listen to a guy sing that way.
And play that way, don't you think?
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Vicente Amigo
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El Pele: To play that way, the first thing you need to have is sensitivity
and a huge heart.
Vicente Amigo: (Bursting in with another idea) It's a universal
album, which is what I've always sought with my music, with what I do, whether
it be for cante or for whatever; that you can listen to it all over the world.
El Pele: It's always been a dream for me to sing with Vicente. When
I sing with him I don't worry about anything. Many times I've gotten up on stage
with Vicente without even knowing what I was going to sing. At the instant you
get on stage or listening to his first notes, the inspiration comes. And I sing
my way and he catches on to me. And he plays his way and I catch on to him. In
the end, there's magic up there, but you can't do that with everybody, just with
someone who knows you very well or who has the sensitivity and the heart of the
likes of Vicente Amigo.
And this is where the interview ends. So they've decided; you don't know
when or how. The photos of bullfighters which cover the wall of this hotel lounge
where Madrid's bullfighting world bustles serve as an excuse to send out the alert.
The complicity between Vicente Amigo and El Pele is so obvious that it admits
no intruders. Whoever wants to understand, listen up:
"What a nice photo that is. What a jacket. It didn't have a slit, did
it? It had the slit further down. What was the one up there hunting? Gamusinos
(an imaginary animal used to fool novice hunters), a bird there is in the mountains
north of Seville. The eau-de-vie place. They make 'Miura' there. You ask us each
a question or two and now we take out what is the lower part of the book. What
do you think of Manolete's death? An irreparable loss for the world of agriculture".
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