Discover Flamenco with ARC Music (ARC Music EUCD 2576, 2015)
Now we’re talking. This is a spectacular flamenco festival wrapped in one CD anthology package. One gets it. All that is good, interesting, fun and exciting about flamenco is here, the Moorish, the Jewish, the Gypsy, the rumba, the macarena, the fire, the folk, the vivacious and the triste.
All the artists on these 14 cuts are introduced as well as they can be, showing their strengths in a comparison to peer artists. The listener learns and likes every perspective. Most importantly, the listener gets a disc full of fun. The songs are all either convincingly upbeat or convincingly hopeful.
Given the mission of helping people discover flamenco, ARC has wholly succeeded with this release.
Buy Discover Flamenco with ARC Music
Author: Arthur Shuey
Arthur has been reviewing music for publications since 1976 and began focusing almost exclusively on world music in 2012.
His musical background includes past presidencies of the Cape Fear Musicians Association and Blues Society of the Lower Cape Fear, founding membership in nine other blues societies, service on 17 music festival planning committees, two decades of teaching harmonica to individuals and groups, operating a small recording studio and performing solo and in combos for 30 years.
Arthur has written professionally since 1975, pieces ranging from short fiction to travel articles, humor to poetry, mainly for local and regional entertainment media. His blog,” Shuey’s World,” is featured at www.accesswilmington.com.
