The Flamenco Cajón.

The flamenco cajón

Incorporation of flamenco Paco de Lucía

Francisco Amós Tomás Pastor

Introduction

One of the activities we do in class every year is the construction of homemade musical instruments. Each year these dedicated several educational tools , home built with the hands of every student get a single value sessions. Some are purely decorative , like guitars made ​​size, or pan flutes , built of reeds , but most get sound . Every year we wind instruments bevel double reed , string , but most are percussion . This year has surprised me that two students , Andrew Salas and Alexander Raja, have built a flamingo each drawer. But whence comes the drawer ?

Paco de Lucia with his group and the cajón

Transfer flamenco

A fundamental contribution of Paco de Lucia flamenco to contemporary has been the inclusion of the Drawer . This instrument of Afro-Peruvian music is known for Paco de Lucia in Peru in the late seventies , Caitro hands of Carlos Soto de la Colina, drawer and Peruvian composer . Paco de Lucia senses and understands , knowing this Peruvian instrument, which can be a solution to the continuing need for requiring flamenco percussion , and adds , in complicity with Rubem Dantas on percussion sextet used in its time , becoming Cajon since then and over time an essential instrument of contemporary flamenco and then other international musical trends .

Heritage

   It's amazing to see how the Cajon has become an essential tool within the Flamenco , recently named Heritage . But even more amazing is that he has succeeded only in 3 decades within the broad history of this art .

The drawer

The web page which explains in detail how a Flamenco Cajon is constructed : http://decajonflamenco.com/4.html is based on the Peruvian Cajon , but slowly taking characteristics . Here we see the building materials, the soundboard and dimensions, string tension and tuning , the outlet opening , the lid and the finish.

Andrés Salas cajón (2°C )

Alexander Raja cajón (2nd A)

The teacher

Paco de Lucía was the guitarist who introduced loudness drawer to flamenco music , musician we have the good fortune to be contemporary to him and we know for sure that future generations will be studied as we do with Spanish composers Falla and Albéniz.
Paco de Lucia died at age 66 while playing with one of his grandchildren on a beach in Cancun ( Mexico), where he had a house in which he spent most of the year. The artist was taken to hospital and died on the way .
His home town Algeciras, decreed three days of official mourning . His name was Francisco Sánchez Gómez and lived for years in Palma de Mallorca. Having lived in the Yucatan Peninsula or in Toledo , he was out of the artistic and intellectual circles to be closer to his family.
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Cadiz and the Berklee College of Music, Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 92 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2004, two Grammy Awards , National Award for Flamenco Guitar and some but official recognition is beyond me , Paco de Lucía will be remembered for fusing jazz and flamenco, a comrade of shrimp and also for its world famous rumba 'Entre dos aguas' .
Camarón de la Isla , who died in 1992 , formed by a mythical artist duo Paco . Friends and colleagues , recorded ten albums between 1968 and 1977. Camarón When he died, was raised Paco quit music and had an artistic break of one year.
His father, Antonio Sánchez , inherited the art of the six strings , as this was his first teacher when Paco was only seven years. From his mother , Lucía Gomes " The Portuguese " received the name as it is in traditional Andalusian Moors refer to people as " The One ... " .
He mixed flamenco with jazz, with blues , with salsa and bossa nova. He walked the halls around the world with other guitar virtuosos such as Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin . And on February 26, 2014 , after sixty years of dedication to the art, his fingertips stroking stopped only six strings as he did.

Genius

These his words speak of simplicity and genius , about his interpretation of the Concierto de Aranjuez , which he memorized to touch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc

When I was invited to play the Aranjuez concert in Japan , was a challenge for me , I had never touched or knew me . As often happen to me , I signed the contract and I forgot . When I realized only one month left to debut , I thought I could only achieve world abstrayéndome I learn it all alone and being .

To study I escaped to Mexico , to the house of Playa del Carmen. I took my Japanese robe a couple of swimsuits, Music concert , a pentagram with the names of the notes to decipher that and several recorded versions .

Those were hard days but will remember with pleasure. Every morning grabbed my spear gun and I was walking about 5 km along the beach to the small bay of X - Caret , who then was a virgin , was my particular fish . I pulled the water a couple of hours to get food for the day , which was usually a snapper. Back home , I cleaned and fried . Delightful .

After eating , I installed with my notes and my cassette until midnight.

With the score localized notes and recordings included the times. That part was the most difficult because in many places the classic versions use rubato that are not in the score. That threw me for hours with listening passages thousand times until you can fit them . Because for me the most important thing at that moment was to respect time.
After a month , I returned to Madrid, and I had it .

Paco de Lucia , October 2010

Bibliography

Brief Biography : http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/lucia.htm

Website of Paco de Lucía : http://www.pacodelucia.org . Has not been reported yet the date of his death.

Videos where Paco de Lucía appears : http://www.pacodelucia.org/foro/viewforum.php?f=18&sid=50e3b3220b666ccc04c8ffdd9debd07e

Told by Paco de Lucía : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWkKuDmd0G8

The trip Crate : talk about the connections between Lima and Madrid , or what is the same, the Spanish influence in the Latin American music and vice versa . On this trip round out a discovery : the origin of the name Peruvian cajón . We know the history of the labor Susana Baca and Paco de Lucía. We also talked about African influences in Peruvian music and percussion Rafael Santa Cruz and José Luis Maduro . Finally , Antonio Carmona and Piranha delight us touching the cajón . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a33qW_9IF4o

Interview with The Piranha . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVvGbYh2PQ

Course drawer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaABhmcIu7U