Grisha seems such a nice fellow too bad the facts in the interview are so unique to him. Ramon was 20 years older but they were contemporaries. Nino Ricardo wasn a contemporary of Ramon Montoya. The cante remains the same ,there is no “Modern cante” Just guys jazzing up the accompaniment with odd results.(Check out pedro Sierra changing the accompaniment of Antonio Mairena’s Solea)It would be heresy but it’s funny how seriously they take themselves.(And how silly it sounds) all fandango)Paco has repeated the same feat. Paco invented “Western jazzy Flamenco” as Pepe Marchena invented “Opera Flamenco” Lots of people liked the Westernization of flamenco by Pepe Marchena(ie. Paco is to flamenco guitar what Pepe Marchena was to Cante Jondo. Paco albums evolved?They all contain the same predictable chordal harmonies. How by playing in the fast scale Olympics with Paco in San Fran? (Manitas de Plata played Bulerias in tarantas key in the early 60’s does that make him the father of modern Flamenco?)Īl de Meiola and john Maclauglin made flamenco more popular? Solea in the key of minera is not solea it’s just a fantasy exercise. The cante defines flamenco.Modern flamenco is like ottmar liebert.
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