Light and Shade
- DVD: 0 pages (2001-09-18)
- Publisher: Arthaus Musik
- Label: Arthaus Musik
- Encoding: Region 1
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Rated: NR (Not Rated)
- Studio: Arthaus Musik
- DVD Release Date: 2001-09-18
- Run Time: 60
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 9 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #77748
Avg. Customer Review:
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: the contribution of Spain to world culture ... 2005-10-19
Comment: Paco de Lucia plays an imperious guitar.
On the one hand every guitar-player, watching this documentation, will observe the finger technology (and the precise film is offering much material); and you maybe think: pleasantly the world within the last 40 years does not have developed only armed forces technologically, but also most advanced guitar techniques (in of course different social circles).
On the other hand one also feels, that the music of Paco de Lucia is a life attitude of strictness and pride, of concentration and creativity, of restriction to a fingerboard as a world,
but also a world appreciation, which demonstrates variation and change, hunting first and then going back to reflection
- as hardly another art direction.
It is fascinating and exemplarily, how Paco de Lucia is far away from that kind of musician, who degenerates obeying to favors of the audience.
De Lucia expresses himself, and the audience may follow him if it has the talent.
A famous flamenco artist, to whom he had to show his progress as a child, almost had said disparagingly: "A guitarist must present a style of his own, does not imitate anything!" Therefore Paco strengthened tried to get in front of planning area of composition.
And humorously he notices, that he could not enter on the favored career of a singer: "Who would have wanted to look on a small, plump boy?"
Still a higher level opened up for the request as Paco tried to rely the sure port of the traditionally formed Spanish flamenco music to exist on the high seas of improvisation,
side to side with Carlos Santana or John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola.
His interview statements for this remind of the fear, of which the classically trained violin hero Yehudi Menuhin reported to, when he had to go through a jam-session scene with the Gipsy-Violinist Stephane Grappelli (the companion of Django Reinhardt) ahead of running TV cameras.
I have never understood by the way more considerably what an art sociologist must have meant, as him talked about the fact of "aesthetics as a social barrier":
One will be able to imagine Paco's music hardly accompanied by people, dressed in vest, swinging beer cans or dancing round, dressed in leather shorts with a Bavarian shaving-brush hat.
Paco portrays pensiveness, connected to a pinch humor and melancholy -- and the film moves closer to not only the music (like a bare concert-document runs the risk of doing it) but also to the human being Paco de Lucia - and therefore perhaps solves the question: Which could be that specific and valuable contribution, which Spain is able to give the world culture - next to bullfight and Don Quichotte ...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent intro to Paco de Lucia 2004-03-30
Comment: This is a very well produced dvd of Paco.From his early influences to international promenance. Paco has introduced new harmonies and diatonics to the Flamenco vocabulary, however keeping it within he Flamenco compass and thereby expanding it. Included in this dvd are nearly the entire " La Barossa", Interviews with Paco, his father and sister,Paco and Cameron, the trio of Paco, Al Dimeola and John Mclaughlin and the the sextet. This is a wonderful introduction to Paco de Lucia and his music. Also recommended (although as of this writing not yet available on Amazon) is Francisco Sanhchez- Paco de Lucia.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Guitar Magic! 2003-09-13
Comment: This DVD is an insightful documentary that takes us into the life of Paco De Lucia through personal interviews with the musician, his family and Flamenco experts. If you are, as I am, enchanted by Paco de Lucia's masterful guitar playing and are interested in his background, the philosophy behind his music and his biography, you'll be fascinated by this film. It should be a complimentary addition to your library of Paco de Lucia's CD's.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great approach to Paco 2003-06-27
Comment: This DVD has great quality in both sound and video. One of the things that makes me appreciate it the most is the fact that it is one of the very few DVDs featuring Paco de Lucia available in this continent. The documentary is rather short. It is, of course, a documentary, and not a concert video, but I guess that most of us are craving to see Paco in action. There are so many great concerts that could be revived by remastering and bringing them to DVD. By the way, there is new double DVD featuring Paco's biography and some complete concerts, including Aranjuez. It is called "Francisco Sanchez - Paco de Lucia". The bad thing is that it has only been released for PAL. Come on guys! Bring Paco de Lucias's duende to the rest of the world!!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Please release "Meeting of the Spirits" 2003-04-04
Comment: This is great, but let's see some of those old video concerts remastered!!
|
Light and Shade
Enlarge View
