tomas,
wow! awesome playing! very nice tone as well! how did you record this? did you do it yourself? if so, i'd say you can make a full recording by yourself using whatever method you used.

at_leo_87 wrote:tomas,
wow! awesome playing! very nice tone as well! how did you record this? did you do it yourself? if so, i'd say you can make a full recording by yourself using whatever method you used.

Hola Leo:

I am so glad you like it.

Actually there is a quiet an interesting (and now funny, not then!) story about how it was recorded and the review that it received in a magazine called Classical Guitar.

I had played in Scotland at the Dundee International Guitar festival which is a great festival and is run by a Scottish guitarist called Allan Neave who plays very well indeed, very warm and almost Spanish in things like Tárrega. And a nice man as well.

So Allan introduced me to a Scottish sound engineer called Grant Milne and we agreed to make the recording one night late in a Church in a very quiet location in Dundee.

He used some very strange microphones like flat square plastic on the floor and he kept saying that getting a good sound was about where you place microphones and the natural sound of the room used which is why he chose that church.

Well I was extremely ill all day and had something painful with my stomach. A few days later when I returned to Spain they saw in the hospital something about an ulcer bleeding inside of me.

Anyway we started the recording at about 10.00pm and at about 11.30 pm Allan turned up with his girlfriend and some friends. They had had a few drinks and brought with them Chinese take away food. That’s something of a tradition in Britain! They were very happy and laughing and I was not especially with the smell of the Chinese food with my stomach!

Well I just played each piece only once and we finished at about 3.00 am and at last I could get to bed.

Somehow someone ( I think a student of mine in England) sent a copy of the cassettes to Classical guitar and the reviewer in that magazine thought that the music was very bad and very badly played and I remember said that it sounded like it had been recorded under water.

And yet you say that you like the tone. So I guess I really do not understand about these things. I have tried different ways to record a new CD but like you I quite like the sound of those microphones.

Maybe I should make a CD in Scotland with flat plastic microphones, but no take way food and of course now no health problems!

Saludos cordiales

Tomás

I think the recording in the church is what gave it the reverb sound. Tomas consider that you feeling poorly is perhaps what gave this Solea the expression it needed.

Tomas,

I just found and listened to your solea por cana you posted more than 2 years ago. It really blew me away. Que arte, maestro!

Cheers,

Flamencoblues

Flamencoblues wrote:Tomas,

I just found and listened to your solea por cana you posted more than 2 years ago. It really blew me away. Que arte, maestro!

Cheers,

Flamencoblues

Hola Amigo
I keep meaning to find a moment to thank you so much for your comments.
You have no idea how important it is to me when people value what I do.
I am aware that here in Britain I am not a favourite with the flamenco community ...I think that they prefer the modern playing and feel there is no use for what I do.
So I am most grateful to you for your encouragement.
Saludos

Tomás

" I am aware that here in Britain I am not a favourite with the flamenco community ...I think that they prefer the modern playing and feel there is no use for what I do."

You can see that as a compliment
We have here in Holland Eric vaarzon Morel, most succesful out of the flamenco world, least appreciated in the flamenco world....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6WEf7Mk ... re=related

BTW. He plays on a very old Gerundino (1977 if I recall correctly)