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Top 10 Flamenco-world.com 2006 |
The desire to learn lives on. With a crushing
difference, heading up the Top 10 list of DVDs is the class
collection ‘El baile flamenco. Nivel avanzado’
(‘Flamenco Dancing. Advanced Level’) by Lalo Tejada.
Although it was released at the end of last year, it recorded
a non-stop flow of sales throughout 2006. The second slot
goes to Carlos
Saura with ‘Iberia’, a film in which artists
such as Sara Baras, Antonio Canales and Manolo Sanlúcar
do versions of Isaac Albéniz. And neither the filmmaker’s
famous trilogy –consisting of ‘Carmen’,
‘El amor brujo’ and ‘Bodas de sangre’
– nor ‘Flamenco’, a real essential, has
dropped off.
The releases on DVD of television programs specializing in
flamenco have been much talked-about this year. Since its
broadcast, ‘El Ángel. Musical flamenco’,
a series in the early eighties including jewels of the period
like parties with Camarón
and Fernanda de Utrera, hadn’t been seen again. Also
reaching the Top 10 is the new revised, re-ordered and re-packaged
version of ‘Rito y geografía del cante’
(‘Ritual and Geography of Cante’). Now the entire
collection of ‘Puro y jondo’ is also presented
in a special box set, which has also perked up the sales of
the other television series.
With the exceptions of the documentary film ‘Morente
sueña La Alhambra’ –a journey through Enrique
Morente’s career with guests as exceptional as Pat
Metheny and Khaled – and the live show by Guadiana at
Casa Patas, the rest of the DVDs on the list are guitar classes.
New on the charts are the lessons by maestros like Gerardo
Núñez and Tomatito within the collection ‘La
guitarra flamenca de...’. And continuing to top the
list is the didactic method by Óscar Herrero, now in
a three-volume pack
| Books.
Top Flamenco-world.com 2006 |
Though reading isn’t the forte in flamenco’s
shopping basket, there are always surprises. This year it
was the book ‘Todo sobre flamenco’ (‘All
About Flamenco’) by Silvia Calado Olivo – contents
editor of Flamenco-world.com-, a bilingual (Spanish-English)
manual which answers the basic questions about this artform.
Also receiving a warm welcome was the flamenco tourist guide
‘Dónde está el flamenco?’ (‘Where’s
the Flamenco?’), with texts by the same author. With
the exception of the deluxe photo book by Sara
Baras about her ‘Sueños’ tour, all
the other books in the Top 10 are for learning guitar. The
top-selling title was ‘47 picados para guitarra flamenca’,
followed by the sheet music book ‘Vicente Amigo. Maestros
contemporáneos de la guitarra flamenca’ and the
total of three books studying the album ‘Algo que decir’
by El Viejín. Manolo
Sanlúcar’s work is followed attentively by
toque students, both with the sheet music from ‘Mundo
y forma de la guitarra flamenca’, and with the theory
book ‘Sobre la guitarra’. The curio on the list
has been ‘La salud del guitarrista’, a book to
prevent the usual injuries suffered by those playing the guitar.
With regards to research and informational books, despite
the fact that it has been a more active year in publishing
– for the ratios of this genre –, reading hasn’t
been very much on the rise. And there were interesting titles
such as ‘Enrique Morente. La voz libre’ by Balbino
Gutiérrez, the new editions of ‘Luces y sombras
del flamenco’ by José Manuel Caballero Bonald
and Colita and ‘Memoria del flamenco’ by Félix
Grande, as well as new generalist titles on baile, toque and
cante. Read flamenco, please.
Sara Baras (Excerpt from book
'Sueños')
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