Luis Clemente , May 1998

Phlegmatic and temperate, quiet and with the collaboration of only a few, it doesn't matter. Although the guitar plays alone, it ends up sounding like the Algeciras Philharmonic. Paco de Lucía's new release seems short on account of the hunger engendered by so many years (seven!) without a new work. What he has released in the interim: compilations, reissues and live recordings--hardly counts since every new production from Paco is an exclusive.

Young guitarists have come along who can play faster, more modern, or who go further afield, but the style belongs to Paco. He has succeeded in making insurrection something classic. For example the soleá, while sounding like a soleá, is reworked and takes a different path. He reclaims some tangos and, for the first time, Paco is moved to sing: he dedicated a seguiriya to his mother, while the last thing you hear on the disk is his voice in a rondeña crying out, invoking, "Camarón."

More information:

Paco de Lucía's web at Flamenco-world.com