Hi everyone!
Ben is the name. I'm French, 26, currently living in Japan and started to learn flamenco guitar a few months ago. Yeah, I know : "Why you a French guy, in Japan, flamenco?" many will think but, here I am.

I've been playing a lot of folk music (picking especially) before I finally commit in the great way of the toque flamenco.

My guitar is a Juan Hernandez profesional flamenca and I love, above all, the style of Moron de la Frontera, which is mainly why I chose to register to the forum since there is a section especially devoted to this style. I didn't know much about Diego del Gastor or his nephew Dieguito until recently and I have to admit that until I started to practice the real way (i.e. with a proper - Japanese - flamenco master) I thought that Paco de Lucia was THE one and only flamenco.

Among the most recent discoveries I made in the huge universe of flamenco was the great Diego del Gastor ; then I read the book by Sodis de Riva and it just confrimed what I feel when I listen to his playing : a genuine master. I was also convinced through his example that playing intricate and sophisticated falsetas is not the key to flamenco. Rather play with heart and for the moment (and a compas, of course ) is closer to the definition ofthis beautiful art.