Paco de Lucía recovers on DVD
a
concert held in Germany in 1996
The guitarist
is accompanied by the historic septet
Flamenco-world.com, May 2004
While Paco
de Lucía is going on his intense ‘Cositas
buenas’ tour, a concert is recovered on DVD that the
guitarist held at the Gemeringer Jazztage in Germany in
1996. The artist is accompanied in this live recording by
the now historic septet formed by guitarists Cañizares
and Ramón de Algeciras, cantaor Pepe de Lucía,
bass player Carles Benavent, saxophonist and flute player
Jorge Pardo, percussionist Rubem Dantas and bailaor Joaquín
Grilo. In all, eighty minutes of the flamenco guitar maestro's
live work is put within the reach of enthusiasts.
Paco de Lucía
in "Directo
Alemania 1996"
Paco de Lucía's followers are very
happy. TDK Recording Media Europe has released on DVD one
of the concerts that the guitarist held on his previous
international tour; specifically, the one he held in the
German city of Gemering in the setting of the 1996 Gemeringer
Jazztage. The audiovisual, directed by Peter Hens, has over
eighty minutes of concert, taken with high-quality picture
and sound.
The excellent production shows the ‘modus
operandi’ of the now historic septet on stage in all
its splendor, enabling the viewer to practically join them
on stage. The close-ups draw up to Paco de Lucía's
very hands on the strings, to the artist's face while he
performs his famous flourishes... And they also approach
Jorge
Pardo's flute, the hands of Joaquín
Grilo, one of whose dances is entirely included accompanied
on rhythm by Rubem
Dantas. In fact, this audiovisual's skilful camera misses
few details.
Frames
from DVD "Directo Alemania 1996"
This new DVD starred in by Paco de Lucía
could be considered the visual complement to the album ‘Live
in America’ (1993). In fact, it includes quite a similar
repertoire. Excerpted from ‘Siroco’ (1987) are
‘Mi niño Curro’ and ‘El pañuelo’.
Following the bulería ‘Alcázar de Sevilla’,
he performs two songs from the album ‘Zyryab’
(1990), that which gives the record its title and the rumba
‘Playa del Carmen’. The concert also concludes
through rumbas, with that sort of joke called ‘Buana,
buana, King Kong’ with which the live performance
in America was also closed.
Paco de Lucía on DVD
The videography on the maestro from Algeciras
is on the rise. Besides this new ‘Paco
de Lucía. Alemania 1996’, also available
is the documentary ‘Francisco
Sánchez-Paco de Lucía’, which focuses
on the artist's life and work, with interviews and bits
from concerts; ‘Light and Shade’, another documentary
portraying the artist and the person; 'Meeting
of the spirits', a live concert by Paco de Lucía,
John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell recorded in 1979 at London's
Royal Albert Hall; as well as archive footage from Spanish
Television of a young Paco de Lucía included on DVD
number 24 of the collection ‘Rito
y Geografía del Cante’ (‘Ritual and
Geography of Cante’), devoted to flamenco guitar.
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