Vicente Amigo - Ciudad De Las Ideas

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• AMIGO VICENTE CIUDAD DE LAS IDEAS

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Free Music Review: Powerful, simply powerful...
Hit: 5 Stars

Back to the present. I have new feelings for music. I am probably more open and sensitive, more interested in mediterranean flavoured music (thus my interest for Buddha bar and chillout in Paris or Nirvana Lounge compilations), I am away from my country, Spain. And, of course, you generally miss things when you don't have them. This cd brings lots of emotions to me when I listen to it. It is a powerful performance by a man that I consider to be the Master in his genre. Each time I put this record on, it shakes me, gives me goose bumps at times. Especially the closing track, "Ciudad de las ideas". I was with a group of 40 kids (that's the way I have to call them) from the US on a trip to Spain in 2002, and I took them to Sevilla and Granada. I hadn't been there in years and now, I just can't help connecting Amigo's music with all that happened over there. You might think I am in delirium, but I just don't know how to express this. There is a depth in this music that you will only fully understand and feel if you go there and get submerged into the culture and way of life. Try for instance "La carboneria" in Sevilla, or the "Sacromonte" in Granada (situated on the hill that faces the hill on which the Alhambra is). Try Cordoba.

Once you have done that, and that you have looked a the landscape from the walls of the Alhambra, you have to come back to this record (track number 3 is in fact called "ojos de la Alhambra"). I guarantee you will love it.

Now, even if you are not a connaisseur, you can enjoy the cd. That's what makes it so strong and powerful. It is pleasant, and not unbearingly long. It has musical cuts, but also voices. The closing track is a great one because of it's genuinity, voices and music. The opening track is light and joyous, and it was played as an ad for Spain's largest store. Everybody in Spain knows it now. In between, you have nothing but great music. Featured on track 2 you have Flamenco's new star, Dieguito "el cigala" and Khaled on track 3.

I went to Vicente's concert here in Atlanta in November 2002. An astonishing performance. I talked to him after the show. He is not a look-at-me-but-don't-get-close, I-am-a-superstar-type-of-guy. He is mega talented and I cannot wait for the next album to be released !

Hasta siempre, y nos vemos donde tu quieras, Amigo Vicente !

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