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(G Music Report)

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Paco de Lucia:

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This album is a tribute to my mother

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it was recorded

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while my mother was ill in the hospital for six months

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every single morning I visited her

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during the day i was with her and later in the day and at night I would compose

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This album is impregnated

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of those painful feelings, seeing how my mother was leaving

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And I also told her once

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that this album will be dadicated to her, which made her very happy

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She gave me the most beautiful smile, a smile I would never forget

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and that is a good razon to dedicate the album Luzia with a "Z" because

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It is important for me to clarify my mothers Portuguese origins

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in Portuguese Luzia is spelled with a "Z"

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So this album is definetly a full tribute to her

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There is also a song that is dedicated to Camaron

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but the album in general is impregnated by that painful feeling only experienced when ones own mother is dying

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Every experience in life

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Fills you up with diferent feelings and sensations

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and the pain when is so deep, it think you get used to it

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to the point where pain is so intense but so is happiness

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so, in a way I believe that what I write and compose is related with whatever has been experienced

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If an intense and profound pain has been felt by someone, it is transmited into whatever you create or compose

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Flamenco is full of pain and sadness

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of the persecution of towns and the andalucian marginalization, poverty, hunger, all that.

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there are many people that claim to have undergone hunger, but I

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I did not experience hunger, my father made sure we did not experienced it

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but we were in the verge of it

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and I thing that is important for any artist

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each album is like giving birth, it is painful I want to go crazy

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I really do. It fills me up with anxiety and anguish

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fear and insecurity

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I think it is not worth it and throw away more than half of what I compose

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because I think is just not worth it

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making an album is an illness it turns into an illness

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I suffer..suddenly I come up with a phrase that really makes me happy for five minutes

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but after five minutes, the insecurities come back again

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and the fears and doubts about if this is all worth it

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when I could be at the beach taking the sun

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having enough money to do that,

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but there is something else inside me telling me to keep going and keep struggling

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to keep living, to have that fullfilling sensation that I am still alive

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and having something to say

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I want to make sure you all know that I dont pretend to portray myself as a singer in this album

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it has been almost an obligation, because there are two writings in this album

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one, i dedicate to my mother and the other to Camaron

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and I sang in reference to the recording so later a professional singer could adapt his voice over mine

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but I thought it was more intimate according to the circumstances and the real purpose of the song

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eventhough I realize he could have done a much better job

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to have myself sing those lines was a real homage

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(guitars)

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Guitarists in general

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Of course guitarists dont even buy them, on the contrary they copy each other

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these guitarists have put me where I am and they know who Paco de Lucia is

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that is why I always thing about the guitarists when I make an album

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because they are the ones who will talk about it among themselves

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and will say if the album is Ok or not

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I am not interested...

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there is still much to do with the acoustic guitar

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now play the electric guitar is quite interesting

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because with the acoustic guitar, you play a note and it dies suddenly

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with the electric guitar you play a note and it can last ten minutes

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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

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with the acoustic guitar you can not do that

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after one note the next must come quick because you ran out of sound

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much more challenging to play the acoustic guitar, it has more posibilities that an electric guitar

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in which you can prolong the notes and have time to think

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I could not live without a guitar, but at the same time I dont live while playing

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because it is such a difficult and ungrateful instrument

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you dedicate all the hours in you life and all of a sudden

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one day you are completely fine in regards to your hands, brilliant

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you go in front of people feeling perfect to play

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and you just cant play, I dont know why, a disaster

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It is an instrument where all matters, the lenght of you nails matters

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Im talking about a microscopic difference in lenght

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and I dont know what is going on but it seems like it is the nail that not well filed

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it is quite challenging instrument, very tough

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I dont have a good relationship with the guitar

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I dont like it, really I cant stand it

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(laughs)

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[guitar playing]

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Because flamenco has always been a lower category music

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maybe I giving it to much importance

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flamenco has always been music for Andalusian Gypsies

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It played in the caverns

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and, I could sum it up to this

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I remember someone in my town saying "Paco de Lucia" plays the guitar really well, he is a phenomena

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And there was this neighbor of mine that said the opposite

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He said he knew me so well when I was a young boy,

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that my face as full of shit as his home, how can he play well- he said

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He spoke in a sense trying to say that since he is ours he cant be good

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it seams like everything that comes from outsider is better

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that is something that happens not just in my country, but all over

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everything that is folkloric and autochtonous is not good enough

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it is so much more well seen to go see a rock concert even if its a total wreck

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than to go see a local folkloric artist

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I dont know why, I cant understand, but we are just like these.

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There are countries that do have a much more elevated cultural education

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Maybe because they have more money, the kinder has been educated in music

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and may be they know how to appreciate those things even better that we can do.

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This is basically a flamenco guitar album

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very traditional, but also have percussion, lute, guitar mandolin

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Antonio Carmona plays cajon in a Buleria, for me he is the best player of all

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and Luis Miguel he plays also the guitar mandolin, he plays very well is a good musician

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Tino di Geraldo, Carlos Benavent

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and Duquende, a singer that I like so much, he made some beautiful Tangos

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I always be in fusions, because as a Flamenco gay i never went to a School to learn music, I am a self taught person

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all I know was learned by hearing

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Some times I felt I needed Technical skills of music to make a composition less painfull

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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

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And so, I never had the discipline to go to school, I though the best way to learn was meeting other musicians

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for example Jazz musicians, people at he verge harmonically.

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...and like I was curious, inquiring I never pretend not to be a Flamenco

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not even dedicate my self to play Jazz, my goal always was go to learn

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bring it back to Flamenco music and make it grow some way

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And Ketama I think is a splendorous Band, they really make an progression

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even the last album was not Flamenco, they move into Flamenco ways to make it them expression

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all of they music has Flamenco intentions that I think is very positive

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and like Ketama Band a lot of people will make amazing things

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as I said, Why take so long to make an album?, Because the level is too high

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I can not come out with any kind of album, I have to make something really interesting, very surprising.

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[guitar playing]