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Spanish guitar based songs

HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
edited March 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
So I have had a hankering for some western Spanish guitar music to listen to. You know the kind you can imagine going to a shoot out at high noon or galloping your horse across a desert during a setting sun.

So does anyone know what or who I should for pieces like this? I have one perfect example here which always tends to give me chills when I hear it. Like the big pluses are the guitar and those little clapping sound (maybe tap dancing sound?).

Skip to around 1:30 for what I'm talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wiskH1UE4c&feature=related

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  • elmoelmo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    no idea for names, guess the genre your looking for tho is flamenco if thats any help

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Rodrigo y Gabriela are pretty "mainstream" flamenco try some of them.

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Manuel Barrueco is a classic guitarist, with a spanish flavor to most of his work.
    In particular, I love his "Bach Sonatas" album.

    Al Di Meola is a latin/jazz fusion guitarist, but his style is definitely something you'll dig. His trio album "friday night in san francisco" with John McLaughlan and Paco de Lucia is to die for.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    gipsy kings are pretty famous in the "oh shit it's THAT song" vein

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  • cmsamocmsamo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    RE - Gypsy Kings

    Yeah.. I recently started to listen to them. My girlfriend was telling me all about them and it turns out they are French gypsies, born in France, although their parents were Spanish (from Catalonia). I would have said they were south american but there you go....

    But I digress; the Gypsy Kings have some very good guitar work.

    This page is a list of the current crop of Flamenco artists (stolen from Wikipedia) and it might be a good starting point for research.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    I like Flor de Serena:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXNWvHvEtpA

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxp7qJieKw

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  • jeddy leejeddy lee Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    The Ventures are a surf band that did a buttload of western stuff adapted for electric guitar. Surf music as it is is pretty much electric surf music actually.

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  • benholiobenholio Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Los Lobos

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVFncQADvc&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAHl54V0CU

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBXlyOF1TJw

    Oh, this is interesting:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHpocou9vs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_s3hYfszI

    It seems Yasmin Levy is a big deal in flamenco circuits, but her music is mostly vocal with percussion dominating the accompaniment.

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