0:00:00.985,0:00:03.777 [Drums Sounds] 0:00:04.787,0:00:09.185 " G Music Report" 0:00:09.185,0:00:12.066 Paco de Lucia: 0:00:13.265,0:00:17.962 This album is a tribute to my mother 0:00:17.962,0:00:19.866 it was recorded 0:00:19.866,0:00:25.255 while my mother was ill in the hospital for six months 0:00:25.255,0:00:29.625 every single morning I visited her 0:00:29.625,0:00:32.826 during the day i was with her and later in the day and at night I would compose 0:00:34.595,0:00:37.713 This album is impregnated 0:00:37.790,0:00:42.384 of those painful feelings, seeing how my mother was leaving 0:00:42.384,0:00:45.785 And I also told her once 0:00:45.785,0:00:50.240 that this album will be dadicated to her, which made her very happy 0:00:50.240,0:00:54.107 She gave me the most beautiful smile, a smile I would never forget 0:00:54.107,0:01:01.746 and that is a good razon to dedicate the album Luzia with a "Z" because 0:01:01.746,0:01:07.704 It is important for me to clarify my mothers Portuguese origins 0:01:07.704,0:01:10.242 in Portuguese Luzia is spelled with a "Z" 0:01:10.242,0:01:15.015 So this album is definetly a full tribute to her. 0:01:15.015,0:01:19.407 There is also a song that is dedicated to Camaron 0:01:19.407,0:01:23.454 but the album in general is impregnated by that painful feeling only experienced when ones own mother is dying. 0:01:24.147,0:01:26.103 Every experience in life 0:01:26.103,0:01:30.226 Fills you up with diferent feelings and sensations 0:01:30.226,0:01:36.312 and the pain when is so deep, it think you get used to it 0:01:36.312,0:01:40.746 to the point where pain is so intense but so is happiness 0:01:40.746,0:01:49.952 so, in a way I believe that what I write and compose is related with whatever has been experienced 0:01:49.952,0:02:01.507 If an intense and profound pain has been felt by someone, it is transmited into whatever you create or compose. 0:02:01.507,0:02:08.510 Flamenco is full of pain and sadness 0:02:08.648,0:02:15.980 of the persecution of towns and the andalucian marginalization, poverty, hunger, all that. 0:02:15.980,0:02:21.188 there are many people that claim to have undergone hunger, but I 0:02:21.188,0:02:27.069 I did not experience hunger, my father made sure we did not experienced it 0:02:27.131,0:02:29.032 but we were in the verge of it 0:02:29.032,0:02:30.718 and I thing that is important for any artist 0:02:31.457,0:02:36.294 Each album is like giving birth, it is painful I want to go crazy 0:02:36.294,0:02:39.648 I really do. It fills me up with anxiety and anguish 0:02:39.648,0:02:41.154 fear and insecurity 0:02:41.154,0:02:48.346 I think it is not worth it and throw away more than half of what I compose 0:02:48.346,0:02:52.072 because I think is just not worth it 0:02:52.072,0:02:55.625 making an album is an illness it turns into an illness 0:02:55.625,0:03:02.386 I suffer..suddenly I come up with a phrase that really makes me happy for five minutes 0:03:02.386,0:03:07.948 but after five minutes, the insecurities come back again 0:03:07.948,0:03:11.646 and the fears and doubts about if this is all worth it 0:03:11.646,0:03:15.153 when I could be at the beach taking the sun 0:03:15.153,0:03:17.018 having enough money to do that, 0:03:17.018,0:03:22.147 but there is something else inside me telling me to keep going and keep struggling 0:03:22.147,0:03:26.189 to keep living, to have that fullfilling sensation that I am still alive 0:03:26.189,0:03:28.583 and having something to say. 0:03:28.583,0:03:33.245 I want to make sure you all know that I dont pretend to portray myself as a singer in this album 0:03:33.245,0:03:39.501 it has been almost an obligation, because there are two writings in this album 0:03:39.501,0:03:42.081 one, i dedicate to my mother and the other to Camaron 0:03:42.081,0:03:48.025 and I sang in reference to the recording so later a professional singer could adapt his voice over mine 0:03:48.025,0:03:55.389 but I thought it was more intimate according to the circumstances and the real purpose of the song 0:03:55.389,0:03:58.461 eventhough I realize he could have done a much better job 0:03:58.461,0:04:03.246 to have myself sing those lines was a real homage. 0:04:03.246,0:04:07.714 (guitars) 0:04:12.926,0:04:15.458 Guitarists in general 0:04:15.458,0:04:19.077 Of course guitarists dont even buy them, on the contrary they copy each other 0:04:19.077,0:04:25.276 these guitarists have put me where I am and they know who Paco de Lucia is 0:04:25.276,0:04:30.019 that is why I always thing about the guitarists when I make an album 0:04:30.049,0:04:34.578 because they are the ones who will talk about it among themselves 0:04:34.608,0:04:36.541 and will say if the album is Ok or not. 0:04:36.587,0:04:39.031 I am not interested... 0:04:39.031,0:04:42.138 there is still much to do with the acoustic guitar 0:04:42.138,0:04:45.852 now play the electric guitar is quite interesting 0:04:45.852,0:04:50.235 because with the acoustic guitar, you play a note and it dies suddenly 0:04:50.235,0:04:53.897 with the electric guitar you play a note and it can last ten minutes 0:04:53.897,0:05:00.107 it means that electric guitar gives you more tranquility because while the long note is playing you can think about which note to play next 0:05:00.107,0:05:02.656 with the acoustic guitar you can not do that 0:05:02.672,0:05:07.296 after one note the next must come quick because you ran out of sound 0:05:07.465,0:05:13.749 much more challenging to play the acoustic guitar, it has more posibilities that an electric guitar 0:05:13.749,0:05:22.815 in which you can prolong the notes and have time to think. 0:05:24.031,0:05:31.282 I could not live without a guitar, but at the same time I dont live while playing 0:05:31.282,0:05:34.695 because it is such a difficult and ungrateful instrument 0:05:34.695,0:05:39.695 you dedicate all the hours in you life and all of a sudden 0:05:39.695,0:05:45.031 one day you are completely fine in regards to your hands, brilliant 0:05:45.031,0:05:48.509 you go in front of people feeling perfect to play 0:05:48.509,0:05:52.134 and you just cant play, I dont know why, a disaster 0:05:52.134,0:05:57.536 It is an instrument where all matters, the lenght of you nails matters 0:05:57.536,0:06:02.537 Im talking about a microscopic difference in lenght 0:06:02.537,0:06:05.358 and I dont know what is going on but it seems like it is the nail that not well filed 0:06:05.358,0:06:07.832 it is quite challenging instrument, very tough. 0:06:08.109,0:06:10.818 I dont have a good relationship with the guitar 0:06:10.818,0:06:13.187 I dont like it, really I cant stand it 0:06:13.187,0:06:15.696 (laughs) 0:06:17.795,0:06:25.207 [guitar playing] 0:06:31.421,0:06:36.260 Because flamenco has always been a lower category music 0:06:36.260,0:06:40.593 maybe I giving it to much importance 0:06:40.593,0:06:46.547 flamenco has always been music for Andalusian Gypsies 0:06:46.547,0:06:49.381 It played in the caverns 0:06:49.381,0:06:53.538 and, I could sum it up to this 0:06:53.538,0:06:59.900 I remember someone in my hometown saying "Paco de Lucia" plays the guitar really well, he is a phenomena 0:06:59.900,0:07:03.097 And there was this neighbor of mine that said the opposite 0:07:03.097,0:07:03.098 He said he knew me so well when I was a young boy, 0:07:03.098,0:07:03.098 that my face as full of shit as his home, how can he play well- he said [laughs] 0:07:03.098,0:07:09.289 He spoke in a sense trying to say that since he is ours he cant be good 0:07:09.289,0:07:14.320 it seams like everything that comes from outsider is better 0:07:14.320,0:07:16.733 that is something that happens not just in my country, but all over 0:07:16.733,0:07:22.893 everything that is folkloric and autochtonous is not good enough 0:07:22.893,0:07:27.766 it is so much more well seen to go see a rock concert even if its a total wreck 0:07:27.766,0:07:32.101 than to go see a local folkloric artist... 0:07:32.101,0:07:35.254 I dont know why, I cant understand, but it is what it is. 0:07:35.546,0:07:39.604 There are countries that do have a much more elevated cultural education 0:07:39.604,0:07:44.476 Maybe because they have more money, the kinder has been educated in music 0:07:44.476,0:07:47.892 and may be they know how to appreciate those things even better that we can do. 0:07:47.892,0:07:50.821 This is basically a flamenco guitar album 0:07:50.821,0:07:59.494 very traditional, but also have percussions... Lute, guitar mandolin 0:07:59.494,0:08:07.494 Antonio Carmona plays cajon in a Buleria, for me he is the best player of all 0:08:07.494,0:08:17.574 and Luis Miguel he plays also the guitar mandolin, he plays very well is a good musician 0:08:17.574,0:08:21.045 Tino di Geraldo, Carlos Benavent 0:08:21.045,0:08:30.332 and Duquende, a singer that I like so much, he made some beautiful Tangos. 0:08:30.332,0:08:39.059 I always be in fusions, because as a Flamenco boy I never went to a School to learn music, I am a self taught person 0:08:39.059,0:08:41.042 all I know was learned by hearing. 0:08:41.042,0:08:47.734 ...some times I felt I needed Technical skills of music to make a composition less painfull 0:08:47.734,0:08:59.301 because for me, to find a chord is harder than a person who has music skills and know how to read the chords and make harmony 0:08:59.301,0:09:08.612 And so, I never had the discipline to go to school, I though the best way to learn was meeting other musicians 0:09:08.612,0:09:14.216 for example Jazz musicians, people at he verge harmonically. 0:09:14.216,0:09:21.844 ...and like I was curious, inquiring I never pretend not to be a Flamenco 0:09:21.844,0:09:27.415 not even dedicate my self to play Jazz, my goal always was go to learn 0:09:27.415,0:09:34.055 bring it back to Flamenco music and make it grow some way, 0:09:34.055,0:09:41.415 and Ketama I think is a splendorous Band, they really make an progression 0:09:41.415,0:09:49.456 even the last album was not Flamenco, they move into Flamenco ways to make it them expression... 0:09:49.456,0:09:59.188 all of they music has Flamenco intentions that I think is very positive 0:09:59.188,0:10:03.442 and like Ketama Band a lot of people will make amazing things 0:10:03.442,0:10:08.534 as I said, Why take so long to make an album?, Because the level is too high, 0:10:08.534,0:10:15.216 I can not come out with any kind of album, I have to make something really interesting, very surprising. 0:10:15.216,0:10:24.996 [guitar playing]