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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 09:47:29 -0700From: "Jerry J. Lobdill" <lobdillj@FLASH.NET>Subject: Simplicity, Complexity, and Genius (PdL)

I have been listening to PdL/Fosforito Vol. 2 (CD IMP 924) recently. I amnot a connoisseur of cante, but I saw PdL and Fosforito perform at theferia in Almeria in 1968, and I liked them together then, and the CDdoesn't disappoint me at all. In fact it is some of the very best cante andguitar I've heard anywhere...partly because it caters to my crustaceanpreference for pre-modern flamenco (shortly before PdL began hisexperimentations).

I am struck by the excellent accompaniment PdL provides, blendingsimplicity, complexity, and genius to complement the cante marvelously.PdL's genius is amazing to me even now. For example, in the cut, "Por Dios,que yo no te miento", Solea de Cadiz, he produces an amazingly complex butbeautiful single compas basic form on the following traditional theme:

|------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------2----------|-------------------------0----------||-2-----------3----------------------|-------------2----------------------||------------------------------------|-3----------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|------0------------------------0----||------------------------------------|-------------------------0----------||-------------2----------------------|-------------------1----------------||-3-----------------------3----------|-------------2----------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|-0----------------------------------|

Instead of this well known, well used cliche, at one point he produces acompas based on this slight melodic variation:

|------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|-------------------------0----------|

|-------------------------2----------|------------------------------------||-2-----------3----------------------|-------------2----------------------||------------------------------------|-3----------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|------0------------------------0----||------------------------------------|-------------------------0----------||-2-----------0----------------------|-------------------1----------------||-------------------------3----------|-------------2----------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|-0----------------------------------|

But it uses brilliant contratiempo and mixes sixes, fours, threes, and twos

to produce an amazing result. Here it is:

SOLEACITO POR PACO DE LUCIA

  a a a  m m m m m  p i m a m i p i p p i p i p p i p i p  ___________ ______ ___________ ___________ _________ _________   |-|-|-|-|-| | | | | |-| |-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | |

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  G p p R p|-------0----------0-----------------|---0---0---------0-----------0------||-----0---0--------0-----------------|---1---1---------1-----------1------||---1-------1------1-----2-------0---|---0---0-----4-------4---2-------2--||-2-----------3--------------------3-|-----2-----3------------------------||------------------------------------|-3----------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|

  m m  i p i p p a m i p m i p p i  _________ _________ __________ __________ __________ ______   | | | | | | |--|--|--| |--|--|--| |--|--|--| | |

  p h R p p h G|-----0-----------0------------------|----0-----------0-------------0-----||-----1-----------1------------------|-------0-----------0-----0----------||-0-------0--------------------------|----------1-----------1-------------||-------------3-----------3--2--0--3-|-------------2----------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|-0----------------------------------|

In the line right above the TAB G = golpe, R = rest, p = pull-off, h =hammer-on.

The vertical lines above that show the beat division, and the horizontalline above that groups notes into a beat (count).

Only a genius would have dreamed this up. This tiny bit is, to me, like agold nugget is to a prospector. The value of such small things increases asI grow older. An especially satisfying part about having such weird valuesis that the Wall Streeters have no way to profit from them, and thegovernment has no way to tax them. :-)

Jerry, El Bogavante