Tenth Plectrum Podcast - Vicente Amigo

Vicente Amigo is another Paco De Lucia disciple. As you can see this Paco really had an influence on music! The pity is that locally (in Malta) it is very difficult to find Vicente's music and very few in fact ever heard of him. I only have one CD called Vivencias Imaginadas and all three tracks in today's podcast are in fact from this CD. It is one of his best albums anyway so it is still a very good selection. I think that Vicente Amigo is the most adventurous from the three De Lucia disciples I have featured so far. He includes certain instruments such as flugelhorns (a kind of trumpet) with such effectiveness even though such instruments are hardly ever associated with Flamenco.


BONUS: View the video of Tangos del Arco Bajo from Vicente Amigo's latest CD album entitled Un Momento En El Sonido - not in full unfortunately. [Real Player necessary to view]

BONUS 2: Read this interesting interview with Vicente Amigo



Podcast description:

TRACK 1. Limon de Nata - From Vivencias Imaginadas (1995). A typical New Flamenco composition. Listen to the bass in the beginning how reminiscent of jazz. Then you will notice a brass section and the flugelhorn. A really beautiful piece.

TRACK 2. Querido Metheny - From Vivencias Imaginadas. This is a tribute to the great Pat Matheny (although he is still alive), a fusion / jazz guitarist with a style of his own. Some day I will make a podcast dedicated to him as well. Again in this track notice the good use of the flugelhorn. This is a very romantic track. Me and George (Acoustika) sometimes try to play a very simplified version of this track because we like it so much. Our version has to be simplified because it takes a master to play it the way Vicente does. We cannot even hope to play it as it should. This is definitely my favourite from the whole album.

TRACK 3. Vivencias Imaginadas - From Vivencias Imaginadas. This is the title track. Very expressive and very Spanish. Take note of the sad singing in the first part - pungent I would say. This track has some very impressive percussions too especially at the end part. Good music as expected.

Enjoy.

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