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Son de la Frontera
Son de la Frontera (Nuevos Medios/World Village)
$15.99
With pounding flamenco footsteps over thundering guitars, Son de la Frontera's music is balanced between genres even while breaking them down. Famenco falsetas soar over the sounds and rhythms of Venezuelan, Colombian, Cuban, and Argentinean dance forms, punctuated by the tres, a hybrid descendent of guitar and lute. This is raw and elemental, stripped down rather than 'fusioned' up.
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Listen:
buleria negra del Gastor
Arabesco
Tangos de mi novia
| This CD is a tribute to the famed flamenco guitarist Diego Del Gastor, known for his stylistic and rhythmic virtuosity, which made him something of a legend among players of the bajani (nylon-stringed acoustic guitar). Son De La Frontera's flamenco guitarist, Paco De Amparo (Gastor's grandnephew), is joined by Pepe Torres, Moi De Moron, Manual Flores and, in a compelling innovation, Raśl Rodriguez on Cuban tres guitar. The musicianship is fabulous, as is Torres' percussive dancing, and Moron provides vocals on some of the tunes. The quintet delivers a performance as rich in drama as the material, which here includes a pair of bulerias, a zambra moruna, a tango, and a seguirilla. When flamenco is played with such finesse and passion, it has a mesmerizing quality that is quite transcendent. - Billboard |
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