スペインのフラメンコのギター弾きのパコ=デ=ルシア(Paco de Lucia)、(本名=Francisco Sanchez Gomez)は、メキシコのTulum海岸で孫と遊んでいた時に身体の具合が悪くなって病院へ運ばれる途中で死亡。66歳。スペインのCadiz県のAlgeciras出身。1947年生れ。フラメンコ ギターを世界中に広めた。フラメンコ ギター弾きの天才。
El regreso del maestro
El mundo del flamenco le considera uno de sus grandes maestros
Paco de Lucía estrena casa en España; saca nuevo disco, ‘Cositas buenas’
Emprende una gira, después de años de no actuar en público
El recorrido pasará por Estados Unidos y Canadá
Diego A. Manrique 8 FEB 2004 - 12:37 CET
Return of the Master
The flamenco is considered one of the greatest masters
Paco de Lucía opens house in Spain, shows new album, 'good tidbits'
Embark on a tour, after years of not performing in public
The route will pass through the United States and Canada
Diego A. Manrique 8 FEB 2004 - 12:37 CET
Flamingos were abuzz , especially guitarists , who have deified . Paco de Lucia returns to Spain . Not that Francisco Sánchez (Algeciras , 1947) had been exiled , but ponia by an ocean , to spend most of the year in the Mexican Caribbean. It has been installed in the historic center of Toledo, in a six-story corner house where you are installing a recording studio and where it operates a rehearsal room , also suitable for solo work . Workers are no drilling and tapping , despite orders from the lady of the house , the Mexican Gabriela , asking a truce while the interview takes place .
"I came to Toledo Bounce " he says, " in Madrid prices of old houses are impossible , I found that I have a double advantage . . Isolation and Madrid to three quarters of an hour I think here I will be very happy."
Some do not understand that let Yucatan by such ... Spanish .
That was my refuge : pure jungle, between the beach and the road. At one time, he embodied my idea of Eden. Went fishing , cooking the plundering . It was the natural versus the artificial life of the road. But what happens when you live in paradise ? As you discover the fault , still a paradise. It's business as usual , if you really like something , you should not abuse it : if you spend it loses the charm .
Is it a rule applicable to , as the title of his album says , all the ' good stuff '?
Of course , also the womenand the drugs! Smoked a spliff after two months without testing is a joy , but since I be smoking up ... not funny.
Paco has the air of Flemish old , living a bit outside world. You can use the latest technology , the Pro program Tools - but feels alien to the urgency of following the passage of this : "I wanted to call Algeciras disk, but in Arabic , Al Jazeera When I told the label , they were horrified . . apparently , you could misinterpret do not know which agency " [referring to Arab television Al Jazeera ] .
An album where many string instruments sound : lute, ' bouzouki ' , mandolin, until the Cuban tres Alejandro Sanz.
There are two conflicting things . On one hand , you want to give more color to what is essentially a guitar album . At the same time , as I get older , more rule elements , seeking the essence . Who am I ? A flamenco guitarist . I want to see if I have anything new to say from something as minimalist as the guitar. Ultimately , that is what is going to be and that's what really expect amateurs and professionals, who are ultimately the reason for my efforts. And gypsies , the best judges of what I do .
In addition , the album marks a shift : a new band.
I'm scared . Wearing the Sextet 20 years and were able to play with your eyes closed . That's good, but also dangerous . Suddenly I had to mount group for a U.S. tour . Well sorry I have to accept the compromise . Tourism there is a nightmare , you have to apply for a visa months in advance . Once inside, you must go to the airport three hours early to get checked shoes. Musically, I did not think much until a few days ago when I saw that I needed another instrumentalist. Sure, it has to be someone who lives in America. I thought an Indian musician: having good time , phrasing close to ours, ability to improvise . So my friend John McLaughlin has recommended me a flutist who says it's perfect for me.
I have over three years without playing to the audience. I hate the pressure of being inspired every time I go on stage
That's audacity sign someone without listening ...
No, I'm going to ask simple things. How hard is to me the idea of returning to the stage : I take more than three years without playing in public. I hate the pressure of being inspired every time I go on stage . The tours are over for me.
This is the Paco de Lucía their ( rare ) interviews : frightened by the responsibility of moving the boundaries of flamenco with their fingers, always testing himself. Francisco Sanchez should be the only human being who does not grant magical powers guitarist Paco de Lucía. Impervious to ditirambos , Paco / Francisco constantly insists that the world is full of " bicharracos " guitarists of other music that " play chords I can not even imagine ."
How do you respond to fans who demand more of his records ?
Now comply. I'm not proud of the life I 've led , I have not so eager to go out at night . Those tours I never slept enough, they came running to play ... Now I'm in a life situation in which I feel comfortable and I like to take the energy to compose.
Everyone wants to touch on this album . How many invitations rejects one ?
I can tell you what happened to me with Julio Iglesias. I was chasing until I asked an amount of money possible. However, when I went to Miami to record with Alejandro [ Sanz ] , and I met Julio broke the mold : it is charming, endearing , affectionate . So I ended up regretting not having played for him. Actually, I 'm not so selective : any guitarist to call me, I'm there
In ' good tidbits ' , as if by magic , then tap again to shrimp .
When we recorded those LPs , descartábamos verses and songs for different reasons, and today , that it is pure gold desechábamos , you can form a new theme. Thins , squares ... A lot of work , butit works! I think you could do a whole album of shrimp that give joy to the world . They have taken many direct Shrimp , but how good they are , is milking the cow again . We create a new album Shrimp is what excites me now.
What united Shrimp ? Were you aware of the extraordinary work they were building ?
I always wanted to sing , is the ultimate expression of flamenco, and Camarón became my hero. We started to try to play and record together. Joseph was very cautious : "Paco , what will people flamenco clubs of this?" . And "Fuck the rocks if we do not understand that doing flamenco". He worried what would the gypsies. "If you understand , the better, if not , I understand." And so it happened . When you believe in something, you should not expect immediate returns , neither money nor praise : you invest for the future.
Line, the mystery of recording flamenco: many discs have only eight, nine songs . Why does it cost so much to produce flamenco?
Flamenco was always traditional , songs that just came from the nineteenth century did. Shrimp and started recording new compositions. Many thought it was a sacrilege , but the model consists of singer who won , and of course, many are unprepared ; singing nonsense lyrics with a very lengthy phrases shrimp , but do not say anything. They do not want to create art, think only of the pot boil every day.
Flamenco , is it going out of the shadow of Shrimp ?
It is the great drama. José covered both now conform to try to sing like him. There are many singers mimetic trend: when creating , need references , they fear being told they are not within the tradition . And do not follow the example of Joseph ! He could sing Silverio , but added some new phrases. Shrimp was a researcher, traveling 500 miles to listen to a woman who had some old songs and then I put the cintita excited , "Look what this old ," I said .
Paco de Lucia is also a heavy burden for thousands of guitarists ...
Well, it is. I played it many times to get to the place where I am. I also had fear and insecurity to what purists would say , even going to dignify my war flamenco, to take his place in the universe of music. There was a time when many guitarists Paco sounded , but already there is a generation that has its own voice, Vicente Amigo , El Viejín , Tomatito, Cañizares , Gerardo , El Morao . As I do not want to live off the income , I risk every time I make a disc should have something cool, that has not ever touched . So I compete with my heritage. I dread to become the teacher who goes around with laurels posts, Mr. and passed a pathetic living rents . I hope to remain objective enough to know when to retire .
In the case of shrimp , my behavior was maximum generosity. My father was fighting to get more money
When the hype dies Shrimp breaks : it is said that his family is in poverty and will blame you that the singer has barely registered in the SGAE themes ...
I've never talked about this, but ... it was a blow , an outlandish accusation that I felt unable to defend a quiet and peaceful manner , without insulting . For a year I was pulling for hours tossing and turning in bed, arguing with myself with anxiety , rage, bad temper. It felt like a Hitchcock movie in a Kafka novel : "But I've done the opposite , I deserve a medal " . I always thought that go right through life is the best. No talk of goodness and nonsense of those , the only way anyone can put you colorado, they do not get caught in a lie , it's going right . So I never used to preserve me lie parapets or misdeeds.
The authorship of the songs is a thorny issue in flamenco ...
In the case of shrimp , my behavior was maximum generosity. By love for him and admiration for his art full , three-month tour left , where there was earned millions , to produce shrimp in exchange for 500,000 pesetas. And bore all the work , from which he was sure to hire the right palm . He composed many of his songs , but also arranged the others. For many years, the Flemish did not understand that the money generated songs . And a friend told me I should author . "What are you talking about? I 'm not Quintero , León y Quiroga ." This friend told me that in the records I did with singers were giving up some rights by declaring "people " had some issues that really fit . This man took me by the hand to the General Society of Authors of Spain as if I were a child , and I registered there . But never haunted me to sign , then I earned a lot of money with my recitals and could afford to be detached.
The charges they did for ' stealing songs ' also went against his father, Antonio Sánchez .
My father was a great lyricist. Modernized traditional songs with lyrics that drew from their books , something entirely lawful. It really was a great defender of shrimp , he fought in the offices to get more money . Today , shrimp sold, but when it started was a gypsy chavalito of San Fernando , Cádiz, not too interested in the record .
They say his father imposed , which was enforced .
In my family, it was the law. When I went with my brother on tour in America, I always threatened : " A go daddy, daddy " . And I largaba lumiascas me , and, of course , than it was to bring home money and not spend it on orgies it was. My father was very serious , but we're talking years of famine , poverty . I saw him go, even though he was sick, to play at parties of gentlemen . Same again at ten in the morning, my mother gave the 20 hard he had taken , and sell clothes or whatever . Did not understand that their children waste our time , we had to try and learn. My sense of perfectionism is his inheritance.
But experienced as a burden ...
No, no. I was raised to see a relationship between what is experienced and what you play . If something goes good, it has to be . It is disheartening when you get something bad, poor , repetitive .
How was Paco de Lucía in parent functions ?
With Casilda [ Varela ] I have two girls and a boy. The largest , called like her mother , is a journalist and writes very well . Lucia , an attorney , is specializing in copyright. Curro is a crazy film since childhood, studied at the School of Cinematography . Very sensibly , none has taken a musical career. Watching them today , I recognize that Casilda was mother and father raised them crazy when I walked around, thinking only of my guitar and my world. Now, I've had a girl , Antonia , I strive to make every second count . It is also true that I am in another age , it's very concerning the need for you to understand and recognize you and you feel you play better than anyone.
In 1976 , a right-wing attack him on the Gran Via in front of his future wife , daughter of General Varela precisely ...
There was no question that will explain who her father was, she screamed , trying to get the attention of the guards, who were not about to intervene, but wanted to crush those bastards hands . Casilda was always very consistent with his ideas and that's what brought us together : neither were prototypes of the social class they were born .
What an artist feels when he runs into blind violence ?
That strike was a Graciet on left and right that I released on television. The worst is when there are no excuses . It happened to me in Spanish . I always liked to go, after touching , to hot neighborhoods. I have not been very whoremonger , but I loved those environments where things always happen . And I saw him several times with a gun in his chest.
What do you do then?
Well ...to your knees and beg ! With Antonio Gades , already had long hair , and we were on Lima is we crossed a drunk with a gun . " In this fagot I am going to shoot ," he said . And my brother Pepe , which is released : "You do not just shoot anyone , shoot me if you have balls ." There descompuse me and grabbed the guy to calm down . Sometimes , there arises a very visceral ... bad combination antiSpanishness tequila and handguns .
Paco de Lucia plays much more abroad than in Spain . They say in the business of live music in a marquee name used to pop up in the theater less Flemish corner of the planet . One also suspects that , in these worlds , Paco is free from the scrutiny of pretty hispanic who want rebajarle listing.
Flamenco is now made on five continents . Can you learn only with discs and videos?
Sure . But childhood is fundamental. Have an advantage in that the Gypsies are sucking sing to the beat from birth , it is not the same as it gets payo studying guitar at age 12 . My childhood was very similar to that of the Gypsies, who were my neighbors. Also, my father came tomorrow with his friends, who were great artists , and singing in the courtyard. That was what I heard when I woke up , the four or five year old could tell my father was playing out of rhythm. There was anger , but it ended up giving me the reason. That has been my springboard : I played without thinking about the rhythm , I had inside. For me, the technique is necessary to forget after her, should be a given, not something you have to think to develop your ideas. The great players will tell you the same
And Football ? Flamenco?
There are two positions , those who believe that it is incompatible with Flemish art and which we believe is the most beautiful in the world. I have played football since the days of the beach of Algeciras. In front center , of course! When we were with the sextet to any country , challenged to a televised amateur team arose. Now, to break from my manager, I do not play .
The bulls are another topic ...
I stopped going . For a run of glory you have to swallow so much blood and alarmism that does not pay. But you are big tasks are recorded , it is as if the elf materializes flamingos that we seek . Rafael de Paula in the port, passes Curro Romero, José Tomás some things ... that elegance makes you forget how cruel the show. Art is life and death , I will understand that the bullfighters are believers
I have understood that this is not the case ...
I see myself more agnostic than atheist. I prayed a lot until I realized it was a child ritual. Eye respect those who have faith , even that of straws. That was one of the issues that made me rethink my relationship with the Gypsy world . I lived gypsy gypsy and thought until I realized that was payo , which was staging a sham. I was sorry to get away from that life style so nice , but ... is the same as those who go to Cuba and say, " I'm not a tourist." You must take your reality, although not the most romantic .
The singer Rakel Winchester has a theme, ' Tell me again that falseta ' where the guitar brilliance equates with loving skills. Are they good lovers guitarists ?
I think so ! Guitarists living with so much anxiety that create sex as something very pleasant is taken, something that relieves them of stress. And much linked . For the record speak from hearsay , I've always been [ wink ] very Carthusian .
A prodigy of 26 Discs
D.A.M.
With good tidbits , Paco de Lucia has 26 albums with his name and with his longtime label . As usual with reference figures , this is an artist who everyone thinks they know , but whose work is actually unknown in all its depth . The great highway to enter that universe is the Integral of 2003, which contains 25 titles, more Paco de Lucía discover that collects loose threads , contributions to films (La Sabina, Sevillanas ) and collaborations with the group Dolores , guitarist Juan Duquende beans and the singer . The Integral (Universal ) is accompanied by a lighthearted biography and a very useful guide to hearing, written by the musicologist and Faustino Núñez flamencologist ( and guitarist ) José Manuel Gamboa. By his insistence finally proceeded to correct digital remastering . Out of curiosity Integral get their bursts in the soundtrack of The sessions hit or low - transparent pseudonym Paco de Algeciras , including up to the first approach to jazz, with Pedro Iturralde .
During the sixties , most of the recordings of Paco follow the format of guitar duo with his brother Ramon de Algeciras, or Ricardo Modrego . Paco faces songbook compiled by Federico García Lorca and the Spanish-American repertoire, besides approaching the beloved genre of song (12 hits for 2 flamenco guitars ) , not to mention virtually all tours Flamenco art .
From Source and Flow (1973 ), which contains the critical Entre dos aguas Paco is emancipated and can do without impositions and orthopedic orchestral arrangements . The recognition allows the next LP is Live from the Teatro Real ( 1975), but always remember that the musician had spent years working in similar venues in other countries. Paco uses his newfound fame to vent personal challenges as the recreation of classic scores: Paco de Lucia plays Manuel de Falla (1978 ) and Joaquin Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez (1991 ) .
For direct takes the helm of Dolores, jazz fusion band assembled by Pedro Ruy Blas. Musicians appreciated as Jorge Pardo, Rubem Dantas and Carles Benavent appear in his work to good tidbits . The disks are spaced pure creation , as revealed by the publication dates : Almoraima (1976 ) , I just want to walk (1981 ) , Sirocco (1987 ) , Ziryab (1990) and Luzia (1998 ) . Holes with vibrant registered in Europe Direct (Live ... one summer night , 1984) or the U.S. ( Paco de Lucía Sextet & live in America , 1993) are covered.
Product of internationalization are also triplets . The first consisted of Paco and jazzmen John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell : Castro Marín ( 1981) , a prodigy which was recorded in Tokyo. The project was later recomposed with Al di Meola replacing Coryell : Integral reflected in the guitar trio with The (1996 ) . Fiance closely with Chick Corea did not materialize , although there are loose threads disk pianist , who spent parts as Paco Shorty and Chick.
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