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If only every flamenco show premiering were released on DVD.
Not just for the enjoyment of fans all over the world, but
also to put together an audiovisual flamenco archive. But
the reality is quite another matter. Of the most popular bailaores,
only available to the public for the time being is ‘Mariana
Pineda’ by Sara
Baras, ‘Live at the Royal Albert Hall’ by
Joaquín
Cortés and ‘Pasión y ley’ by
Antonio el Pipa. ‘Torero’ by Antonio Canales,
but it isn't always in the catalogue. Far from the big shows,
the series ‘Jóvenes Maestros del Baile Flamenco’
makes it possible to see flamenco in a traditional format
with María del Mar Moreno, on the one hand, and with
Rafael Campallo, on the other. You can also appreciate how
flamenco dancing is adapted to the tablaos on DVDs such as
those of the series ‘Noches en Casa Patas’, ‘Tablao
Las Carboneras’ and ‘La noche flamenca’,
all of which are with young talents of today's flamenco dancing.
Keep an eye on the website catalogue, since new titles are
expected to appear in the upcoming months from artists like
Farruquito.
Sara Baras releases
the show 'Mariana Pineda' on DVD
Joaquín
Cortés releases the show 'Live' on DVD
The 'Noches
en Casa Patas' series is consolidated with the addition of
two new dance DVDs
Paco de Lucía. Frame from
Directo
Alemania 1996
There's nothing more highly appreciated by guitar students
than picking up flourishes. And what better way to do so than
from the greats. The DVD makes it possible to put the picture
in slow motion, stop it and play it over and over again. And
not just that. All guitar lovers enjoy a good live concert,
well-produced and with good sound quality. Paco
de Lucía is the most prolific flamenco artist on
video. He has several live shows out on the market, among
them, ‘Meeting of the spirits’ with Al di Meola;
as well as the documentaries ‘Light and shade’
and ‘Francisco Sánchez-Paco de Lucía’.
Another maestro who has recorded a live show, but in his case
at the studio, is Víctor Monge Serranito. He is joined
by Córdoba-born Paco Peña with his world-famous
‘Misa flamenca’. Of the latest batch, Vicente
Amigo has a recorded concert with the repertoire of his album
‘Ciudad de las ideas’; as well as Óscar
Herrero with a studio concert. The most current thing is the
DVD of the final of the 2005 International Flamenco Guitar
Contest, with new talents such as Antonio Rey, Santiago Lara
and Eduardo Trassierra, among others. To take a look back
at the past, a TV recording with excellent production of Sabicas
live was recently recovered, with the title ‘King of
flamenco guitar’
Paco de
Lucía recovers on DVD a concert held in Germany in
1996
Vicente
Amigo releases the live version of ‘Ciudad de las ideas’
on DVD
If the strength of cante besides being heard, can be seen,
it has twice the impact. There aren't many cante titles on
DVD, but some basic ones are at the disposal of enthusiasts
such as that of Camarón
in Paris, in a historic concert at the Cirque d’Hiver
accompanied by guitarist Tomatito; and ‘Lo mejor de
José Mercé’, with the live shows of 'Aire'
at Madrid's Teatro Real and of 'Lío' at the Teatro
Villamarta in Jerez. Although it strays from traditional cante,
it's a pleasure to watch the concert of the album of flamenco-style
versions of boleros by cantaor Diego el Cigala and Cuban pianist
Bebo Valdés, recorded in Majorca in 2003. José
Menese decided to release his latest album based on poems
from Spain's Golden Age at the same time as the DVD with the
live show at Seville's Teatro de la Maestranza in 2004, with
an orchestra conducted by Joan Albert Amargós and Enrique
de Melchor on guitar. Little by little, material some years
old is being recovered but which is still unreleased to the
general public, such as ‘Inés, hermana mía’,
an interesting DVD with a documentary and live performance
by cantaora Inés Bacán and guitarist Pedro Bacán.
Frames
gallery. ‘Inés, hermana mía’
Review.
Pedro Bacán & Inés Bacán. ‘Inés,
hermana mía’
Dorantes and Carles Benavent.
Frame from Flamencos
del siglo XXI
The boom of flamenco fusion groups over the past three decades
has led to an active production of records and videos. There
are now hardly any groups in this current close to pop, rock,
jazz or hip hop that don't accompany a new album with a DVD.
They've done so since Chano Domínguez, who has in ‘Mira
cómo viene’ the visual complement to the album
‘Oye cómo viene’; to Niña Pastori,
who launched a special edition with the album and the DVD
‘No hay quinto malo’. Ojos
de Brujo, following their successful international tour,
released the DVD with live concerts ‘Girando Barí
2005’, just like the flamenco chill band Chambao with
‘Chambao puro’ and singer El Barrio with ‘El
Barrio en concierto’. Even single-show collective concerts
have been released on DVD, such as the one with the title
‘Flamencos del siglo XXI’ offered by Dorantes,
Diego Carrasco and the trio consisting of Jorge Pardo, Carles
Benavent and Tino di Geraldo at Etnosur 2004. Also compiled
on the DVD ‘Sabor flamenco’ are the main music
videos by artists of the label BMG, like Niña Pastori,
Ketama, Kiko Veneno and Radio Tarifa, among many others. Navajita
Plateá and Manzanita complete the current offer of
heterodox flamenco DVDs.
El
DVD ‘Flamencos del siglo XXI’ reúne en
directo por primera vez a Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent, Tino
di Geraldo, Dorantes y Diego Carrasco
Ojos
de Brujo releases the DVD ‘Girando Barí 2005’
Niña
Pastori begins a tour and launches a special edition of ‘No
hay quinto malo’ on DVD+CD
Flamenco cinema now sports great titles. Inescapable to anyone
approaching this artform is ‘Flamenco’ by Carlos
Saura, since it managed to gather the genre's top artists,
letting them display their art nearly in private. It includes
historic moments such as Fernanda de Utrera's soleá
and the bulerías by Paquera
de Jerez, as well as performances by stars such as Paco
de Lucía and Joaquín Cortés. And all
of it exposing the entire range of styles and formats. By
the Aragonese filmmaker, but in collaboration with Antonio
Gades, is the trilogy consisting of ‘Carmen’,
El amor brujo’ and ‘Bodas de sangre’, responsible
for flamenco's international boom in the eighties. Later on,
he did the musical ‘Salomé’ with dancer
Aida Gómez, and his latest project with flamenco will
soon be released on DVD: ‘Iberia’, which includes
performances by Sara Baras, Estrella Morente and Antonio Canales,
among others. Also at the disposal of enthusiasts for a year
now is the musical ‘Bodas de gloria’, with maestro
Farruco and his grandson Farruquito.
Carmen Amaya. Frame de
Los
Tarantos
Another great film is ‘Los Tarantos’, where Carmen
Amaya left her artistic testimony, as well as serving
as a springboard for Antonio Gades. There were also other
appearances by this mythical bailaora in movies such as ‘La
hija de Juan Simón’. Along the same line of films
of manners is ‘La copla andaluza’, with appearances
by La Paquera de Jerez and Porrinas de Badajoz, among others.
The genre of documentaries has set its sights on flamenco,
with works like ‘Agujetas. Cantaor’ by Dominique
Abel and ‘Inés, hermana mía’, which
delve deeply into the personality of flamenco artists.
Carlos
Saura's ‘Flamenco’ is re-released on DVD
The
Farruco family musical ‘Bodas de Gloria’ is released
on DVD
Nearly the best thing about audiovisuals is the chance it
offers to explore flamenco history. Spanish public television
(RTVE) has housed genuine treasures for forty years, since
it has periodically had a weekly flamenco program on the air.
The jewel is the series ‘Rito y geografía’
in its three facets: cante, baile and toque. The entire archive
has been released on DVD. And the cante section is currently
being re-released in DVD-book format, in four-volume box sets,
with restored material and complementary information. There's
no better way to learn from maestros of yesterday, to discover
the origins of today's figures, to nostalgically contemplate
how flamenco used to be lived in its main territories. Afterwards
comes the series ‘Puro y Jondo’, also with fundamental
names of cante, as well as ‘Flamenco en los archivos
de RTVE’, with features on artists such as Camarón
de la Isla and Fosforito
recorded between the seventies and eighties. All the material
from the TV station has been used for documentary tributes
like ‘Paco Toronjo. La vida de un genio’. Fans
are awaiting the release on DVD of later programs, nearly
all of which were broadcast on late-night television.
Rito
y Geografía del Cante. Volume 2. Flamenco Special Feature.
The origins
The
'Rito y geografía del baile' series is reissued on
DVD
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