WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Reportagem in Sol Musica 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This album is a tribute to my mother 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was recorded 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 while my mother was ill in the hospital for six months 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i visited her every single morning 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 during the day i was with her and later in the day and at night I would compose 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This album is impregnated 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of those painful feelings, seeing how my mother was leaving 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I also told her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this album was dadicated to her, which made her very happy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She gave me the most beautiful smile, a smile I would never forget 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that is a good motive to dedicate it, Luzia with a "Z" because 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It is important for me to clarify my mothers Portuguese origins 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in Portugal Luzia is spelled with a "Z" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this album is definetly a tribute dedicated to her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There is also a song that is dedicated to Camaron 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but the album in general is impregnated by that painful feeling only experienced when ones own mother is dying 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Every experience in life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fills you up with diferent feelings and sensations 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the pain when is so deep, it think that it sensiblizes people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the point where pain is so intense but so is happiness 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, in a way I believe that what I write and compose is related with whatever has been experienced 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If an intense and profound pain has been felt by someone, it is transmited into whatever you create or compose 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Flamenco is full of pain and sadness 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of the persecution of towns and the andalucian marginalization, poverty, hunger, all that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there are many people that claim to have undergone hunger, but I 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I did not experience hunger, my father made sure we did not experienced it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we were in the verge of it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I thing that is important for any artist 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 each album is like giving birth, it is painful I want to go crazy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I really do. It fills me up with anxiety and anguish 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 fear and insecurity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it is not worth it and throw away more than half of what i compose 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because I think is just not worth it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 making an album is an illness it turns into an illness 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I suffer..suddenly I come up with a phrase that really makes me happy for five minutes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but after five minutes, the insecurities come back 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the fears and doubts about if this is all worth it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when I could be at the beach taking the sun 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have enough money to do that, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but there is something inside me telling me to keep going and keep struggling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to keep living, to have that fullfilling sensation that I am still alive 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and having something to say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I want to make sure you all know that I dont pretend to portray myself as a singer in this album 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it has been almost an obligation, because there are two writings in this album 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one, i dedicate to my mother and the other to Camaron 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I sang in reference to the recording so later a professional singer could adapt his voice over mine 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but I thought it was more intimate according to the circumstances and the real purpose of the song 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 eventhough I realize he could have done a much better job 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to have myself sing those lines was a real homage 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Guitarists in general 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Of course guitarists dont even buy them, on the contrary they copy each other 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 these guitarists have put me where I am and they know who Paco de Lucia is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that is why I always thing about the guitarists when I make an album 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because they are the ones who will talk about it among themselves 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and will say if the album is ok or not 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I dont care.. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there is still much to do with the guitar 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 now play the electric guitar is quite interesting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because with the acoustic guitar, you play a note and it dies suddenly 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the other hand, with the electric guitar you play a note and it can last ten minutes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that translates into more tranquility because while the long note is playing you can think about which note to play next 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the acoustic guitar you cant do that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 after one note the next must come quick because you ran out of sound 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 much more challenging to play the acoustic guitar, it has more posibilities that an electric guitar 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in which you can prolong the notes and have time to think 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I could not live without a guitar, but at the same time i dont live while playing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because it is such a difficult and ungrateful instrument 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you dedicate all the hours in you life and all of a sudden 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one day you are completely fine in regards to your hands, brilliant 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you go in front of people feeling perfect to play 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you just cant play, I dont know why, a disaster 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it is an instrument where the lenght of you nails matters 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Im talking about a microscopic difference in lenght 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I dont know what is going on but it seems like it is the nail that is not the appropriate lenght 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it is quite challenging instrument 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I dont have a good relationship with the guitar 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I dont like it, really I cant stand it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because flamenco has always been a lower category music 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 maybe I giving it to much importance 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 flamenco has always been music for Andalusian Gypsies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It played in the caverns 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and, I could sum it up to this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I remember someone in my town saying "Paco de Lucia" plays the guitar really well, he is a phenomena 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And there was this neighbor of mine that said the opposite 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He said he knew me so well when I was a young boy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that my face as full of shit as his home, how can he play well- he said 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He spoke in a sense trying to say that since he is ours he cant be good 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that is something that happens not just in my country, but all over 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 everything that is folkloric and autochtonous is not good enough 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it is so much more well seen to go see a rock concert even if its a total wreck 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 than to go see a local folkloric artist 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I dont know why, I cant understand 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There are countries that do have a much more elevated cultural education 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe because they have been educated in music, and they know how to appreciate those things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is basically a flamenco guitar album