Zyryab

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Master flamenco/jazz guitarist, known for his summit meetings with John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola, shines in a purist acoustic setting. Chick Corea augments a crew of trad Spanish musicians on the title track. --Jeff Bateman

Zyryab,Paco de Lucia,Polygram Records,Contemporary Flamenco,Flamenco,Int'l & World Music,Jazz Music,Latin Jazz,Pop,World Fusion

Average customer rating: Zyryab- transcends the genre Not worth your while. Paco keeps exploring "Soniquete" worth the whole album best of best, true music lover's music...

Zyryab Paco de Lucia Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spain | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Luzia Siroco Cositas Buenas Concerto de Aranjuez Entre Dos Aguas ASIN: B0000046JX Release Date: 1992-01-28

Tracks:

1. Soniquete (Bulerias)
2. Tio Sabas (Tarantas)
3. Chick
4. Compadres (Bulerias)
5. Zyryab
6. Cancion De Amor
7. Playa Del Carmen (Rumba)
8. Almonte (Fandangos)

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Master flamenco/jazz guitarist, known for his summit meetings with John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola, shines in a purist acoustic setting. Chick Corea augments a crew of trad Spanish musicians on the title track. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Zyryab- transcends the genre.......2003-05-21

I have listened to Paco for years, and still feel I am learning about his brilliance. As a choreographer, I have long been fascinated with the challenge of choreographing the title track, and now, as artistic director of Dance Romanesque, a Bay Area modern dance company, I am well underway with it...I am approaching Zyryab not as a flamenco piece, but as a truly classical piece of music which transcends the flamenco movement vocabulary (great though it is)- Zyryab is intense, lyrical and jazzy, and these are the qualities I hope will come out in my finished dance. Paco's work has also led me back to Al Di Meola, another guitar genius whom I will "tackle" choreographically later this year, probably a cut from one of his compilation albums featuring his work with Chick Corea, Paco and John Mac, among others. As a dance artist who takes pride in selecting the best music (I have recently worked with music by Chopin and Schubert among others), I am thrilled that there are great contemporary geniuses like Paco and Al D. out there who combine soul and technical virtuosity in such great proportions, the perfect antidote to a "modern classical" world dominated by Glass and his watered down ilk.

Not worth your while........2002-08-24

There is much better music around.

As largely exemplified by the comments below by the user from New Orleans, music - or whatever - that inpires, generates and promotes such a deluge of condescending, derogatory and hateful remarks towards others is clearly not worth your while.

You will do much better spending your time and money elsewhere.

Paco keeps exploring.......2000-01-11

I especially like the brief singing of Potito on this cd. I wish paco would have let him sing more. T Martínez-Medley

"Soniquete" worth the whole album.......1999-12-03

Matters of taste.... The "deeply disappointed" fan from Ohio finds no merit in this album, and even calls the cut "Zyryab" "elevator music." (I'd like to watch the reaction of the riders if they ever played "Zyryab" in an elevator - way, way too intense to be called "elevator music.") The first cut, "Soniquete" (a word difficult to translate - "a large, pleasing musical sound" does not convey the real meaning), a buleria, is, from a guitarist's perspective, worth the price of the album. It is one of the most inventive, richly textured and intricate buleria's ever recorded - a masterpiece of creativity.

The reviewer from California should immediately snub out whatever it is he/she's smoking before it causes permanent brain damage. This is an excellent album, but let's not go over the top about Gypsies. They're not all "free." They're not the exclusive source of Flamenco, nor did they invent it. And Paco is not Gypsy. As to the album's namesake: "Zyryab" was the nickname of a legendary court musician (full name: Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Nafi). He lived in the first half of the ninth century, not the thirteenth. And he was reputed to have added a fifth string to the oud ("al oud," from which we derive the word "lute"), not a sixth. However, no one knows for sure as the true historical record is sketchy, especially since the first hard records we have about Zyryab were written around 1600 by an author (al-Maqarri) who reputedly quoted verbatim from another historian (Ibn Hayyan) whose works have long since been lost, and which in any event would have been written well over a century after the death of Zyryab. In any event, Zyryab was reputed to have been a multi-talented genius, not only as a genius of musical innovation, but also, amongst other things, as the inventor of the concept that "well bred" people should change their fashions four times a year with the seasons, and that meals should be served in courses rather than all at once - literally decreeing "soup to nuts." He died around 850 c.e. in Cordoba, Spain ("al Qurtuba, al Andalus"), and Paco's album is a tribute by a Spanish musical genius of the twentieth century to a Spanish (albeit adopted - he was from Baghdad) genius of the ninth.

best of best, true music lover's music..........1998-10-30

Thousand words could be written about flamenco, dance, music and song. To me a few words are sufficient. Gypsies are free, were meant to be free, they are proud to be free. That shows in their music, in their singing, in their dance. Zyryab is a fitting homage to an inspired man of yesterday that first had the idea to add a sixth string to an instrument that had traveled from as far back as India, possibly even China, Mongolia and Manchuria, from the ends of the world to South Spain, way back in the 13th century. The rest is history: Hendrix, Clapton, Segovia, Dylan, Paco. The title track is a masterpiece of composition, taste, ingenuity, flawless execution, arrangement, syncopation, melody, in this reviewer opinion, a par to any major composer's work: Debussy, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven. Paco playing alone during major solo's shows music, melody, harmony, technical supremacy of the guitar as an instrument by itself as the most complex, most sophisticated, more so than piano or violin, ever. All of this made by a people that were once and during a large period of history shot on sight, persecuted, murdered, alienated. Their desire to be free prevailed. The result is music, divine music. The Almonte track has a little arrangenment of singers, flute, violins, an inspired theme that easily surpasses Carl Orf's Carmina Burana or Saint-Saens Aquarius in grace and beauty: magical duendes speaking, loving, making music, dancing and singing, down a road full of heart. Just to show what the desire to be free can do. Wish they played it forever...

Average customer rating: Zyryab- transcends the genre Not worth your while. Paco keeps exploring "Soniquete" worth the whole album best of best, true music lover's music...

Zyryab Paco de Lucia Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spain | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Luzia Siroco Cositas Buenas Concerto de Aranjuez Entre Dos Aguas ASIN: B000025XZ9 Release Date: 2005-06-06

Tracks:

1. Soniquete [Buler] - Paco de Luc Paco de Luc
2. Tio Sabas [Tarantas] - Paco de Luc Paco de Luc
3. Chick - Paco de Luc
4. Compadres [Buler] - Paco de Luc Paco de Luc
5. Zyryab - Paco de Luc
6. Cancion de Amor - Paco de Luc
7. Playa del Carmen [Rumba] - Paco de Luc Paco de Luc
8. Almonte - Paco de Luc Paco de Luc

Amazon.com

Master flamenco/jazz guitarist, known for his summit meetings with John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola, shines in a purist acoustic setting. Chick Corea augments a crew of trad Spanish musicians on the title track. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Zyryab- transcends the genre.......2003-05-21

I have listened to Paco for years, and still feel I am learning about his brilliance. As a choreographer, I have long been fascinated with the challenge of choreographing the title track, and now, as artistic director of Dance Romanesque, a Bay Area modern dance company, I am well underway with it...I am approaching Zyryab not as a flamenco piece, but as a truly classical piece of music which transcends the flamenco movement vocabulary (great though it is)- Zyryab is intense, lyrical and jazzy, and these are the qualities I hope will come out in my finished dance. Paco's work has also led me back to Al Di Meola, another guitar genius whom I will "tackle" choreographically later this year, probably a cut from one of his compilation albums featuring his work with Chick Corea, Paco and John Mac, among others. As a dance artist who takes pride in selecting the best music (I have recently worked with music by Chopin and Schubert among others), I am thrilled that there are great contemporary geniuses like Paco and Al D. out there who combine soul and technical virtuosity in such great proportions, the perfect antidote to a "modern classical" world dominated by Glass and his watered down ilk.

Not worth your while........2002-08-24

There is much better music around.

As largely exemplified by the comments below by the user from New Orleans, music - or whatever - that inpires, generates and promotes such a deluge of condescending, derogatory and hateful remarks towards others is clearly not worth your while.

You will do much better spending your time and money elsewhere.

Paco keeps exploring.......2000-01-11

I especially like the brief singing of Potito on this cd. I wish paco would have let him sing more. T Martínez-Medley

"Soniquete" worth the whole album.......1999-12-03

Matters of taste.... The "deeply disappointed" fan from Ohio finds no merit in this album, and even calls the cut "Zyryab" "elevator music." (I'd like to watch the reaction of the riders if they ever played "Zyryab" in an elevator - way, way too intense to be called "elevator music.") The first cut, "Soniquete" (a word difficult to translate - "a large, pleasing musical sound" does not convey the real meaning), a buleria, is, from a guitarist's perspective, worth the price of the album. It is one of the most inventive, richly textured and intricate buleria's ever recorded - a masterpiece of creativity.

The reviewer from California should immediately snub out whatever it is he/she's smoking before it causes permanent brain damage. This is an excellent album, but let's not go over the top about Gypsies. They're not all "free." They're not the exclusive source of Flamenco, nor did they invent it. And Paco is not Gypsy. As to the album's namesake: "Zyryab" was the nickname of a legendary court musician (full name: Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Nafi). He lived in the first half of the ninth century, not the thirteenth. And he was reputed to have added a fifth string to the oud ("al oud," from which we derive the word "lute"), not a sixth. However, no one knows for sure as the true historical record is sketchy, especially since the first hard records we have about Zyryab were written around 1600 by an author (al-Maqarri) who reputedly quoted verbatim from another historian (Ibn Hayyan) whose works have long since been lost, and which in any event would have been written well over a century after the death of Zyryab. In any event, Zyryab was reputed to have been a multi-talented genius, not only as a genius of musical innovation, but also, amongst other things, as the inventor of the concept that "well bred" people should change their fashions four times a year with the seasons, and that meals should be served in courses rather than all at once - literally decreeing "soup to nuts." He died around 850 c.e. in Cordoba, Spain ("al Qurtuba, al Andalus"), and Paco's album is a tribute by a Spanish musical genius of the twentieth century to a Spanish (albeit adopted - he was from Baghdad) genius of the ninth.

best of best, true music lover's music..........1998-10-30

Thousand words could be written about flamenco, dance, music and song. To me a few words are sufficient. Gypsies are free, were meant to be free, they are proud to be free. That shows in their music, in their singing, in their dance. Zyryab is a fitting homage to an inspired man of yesterday that first had the idea to add a sixth string to an instrument that had traveled from as far back as India, possibly even China, Mongolia and Manchuria, from the ends of the world to South Spain, way back in the 13th century. The rest is history: Hendrix, Clapton, Segovia, Dylan, Paco. The title track is a masterpiece of composition, taste, ingenuity, flawless execution, arrangement, syncopation, melody, in this reviewer opinion, a par to any major composer's work: Debussy, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven. Paco playing alone during major solo's shows music, melody, harmony, technical supremacy of the guitar as an instrument by itself as the most complex, most sophisticated, more so than piano or violin, ever. All of this made by a people that were once and during a large period of history shot on sight, persecuted, murdered, alienated. Their desire to be free prevailed. The result is music, divine music. The Almonte track has a little arrangenment of singers, flute, violins, an inspired theme that easily surpasses Carl Orf's Carmina Burana or Saint-Saens Aquarius in grace and beauty: magical duendes speaking, loving, making music, dancing and singing, down a road full of heart. Just to show what the desire to be free can do. Wish they played it forever...

Average customer rating: box set contains 3 great Paco LP's ( 1981-90 )

Solo Quiero Caminar/Siroco/Zyryab Paco de Lucía Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spain | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Music | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B000006Y27 Release Date: 1995-11-29

Tracks:

1. Solo Quiero Caminar
2. Tumbona
3. Convite
4. Monti
5. Chanela
6. Monasterio de Sal
7. Pite
8. Palenque

Tracks:

1. Ca
2. Mi Niurro
3. Barrosa
4. Cae Az
5. El Pao
6. Callejel Muro
7. Casilda
8. Gloria Al Niicardo

Tracks:

1. Soniquete
2. Tio Sabas
3. Chick
4. Compadres
5. Zyryab
6. Cancion de Amor
7. Playa del Carmen
8. Almonte

Customer Reviews:

box set contains 3 great Paco LP's ( 1981-90 ).......2000-02-05

This Spanish import box ( "caja" ) set contains three of Paco de Lucia's LP's. "SOLO QUIERO CAMINAR" (1981), "SIROCO" (1987) and "ZYRAB" (1990). Note that these recordings have been digitally remastered and DO sound better than the versions available in America at the present time. The qualities of the three albums will most likely be known to those contemplating buying this box set. "SOLO QUIERO CAMINAR" was recorded shortly after Paco's first tour with the now famous TRIO ( Paco, John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola ). The album represented another evolutionary step for flamenco. "SIROCO" was recorded after Paco's SEXTET group had amicably disbanded in 1986 ( they later reformed in 1991 and have been together since ). "SIROCO" was as revolutionary an album as "ALMORAIMA" had been over ten years prior. The only aspect of this masterpiece that has bothered me is that the sound has far too much reverb. A small point perhaps, but one I've always remembered. Finally, "ZYRAB" was pieced together in attempt to molify his recording company; Paco doesn't like to record when he feels he doesn't have properly new ideas to contribute. Consequently "ZYRAB", while still a very good album, sounds a little disorganized. Paco's moving tribute ( "por taranta" ) to the late legendary Sabicas and his "bulerias" are his versions of "flamenco puro"; the title track ( with Chick Corea on piano ) is a fusion piece a la the TRIO; there's even a more or less "pop" piece entitled "Cancion de Amor". Finally, each album has new liner notes ( in Spanish only ) and some great, previously unseen photographs, many in color! A great set for fans of the great artist, Paco de Lucia.

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