Flamenco guitarist Tomatito releases
the first live recording of his career
The twenty-minute concert is included
on the album ‘Tomatito Anthology’, on which
he also offers a new accompaniment for Camarón’s
voice
Flamenco-world.com, June 2008
Tomatito
finally records his music live. Although it still isn’t
a full album, nearly twenty minutes of concert recorded
in 2006 in Aguadulce (Almería) is released, set
on the double compilation album ‘Tomatito Anthology’.
The double compilation also offers the novelty of the
bulerías ‘Soy fragüero’, in which
the guitarist has done a new accompaniment for Camarón’s
voice. The anthology covers the past decade of the musician’s
career, with a selection of almost twenty pieces among
which there are collaborations by Diego el Cigala, Guadiana
and Potito.
Tomatito & group
(Photo Daniel Muñoz)
Tomatito’s first live solo recording
has come out. And it does so as an epilogue of the double
compilation ‘Tomatito Anthology’. In total,
there are twenty minutes of concert recorded in the Almería-area
town of Aguadulce in 2006 accompanied by Cristóbal
Santiago on second guitar, Bernardo Parrilla on violin,
Diego
Amador on bass and Mari Ángeles Fernández
on vocals. And they synthesize the personality and freshness
of his toque through pieces such as ‘Al Mariyya’,
‘Los tangos de la Tía María’,
‘Dulce manantial’ and ‘La vacilona’.
The anthology opens with another novelty,
the bulerías ‘Soy fragüero’. Tomatito
has recovered the vocal track by Camarón
in the original master copy of the song ‘Otra galaxia’
and he has instrumented it once again. With that ‘new
release’ he begins the compilation, which consists
of a total of twelve songs on the first disc and seven
– including the live recording - on the second.
The tangos ‘Pa la Pimpi’, the bulerías
‘Dulce manantial’, ‘Spain’ and
‘Libertango’ are some of the pieces chosen
off albums - all of which are from the record company
Universal - like ‘Paseos de los castaños’,
‘Aguadulce’, ‘Spain’ and ‘Spain
again’, besides the live album with Camarón
‘París 1987’, which the alegrías
‘Tus ojillos negros’ and the bulerías
‘Pañuelo a rayas’ are taken from.
Precedents
After accompanying the genius from La
Isla live and at the studio, Tomatito set out on a solo
musical career which is dotted with five solo albums and
two in collaboration with Dominican latin jazz pianist
Michel Camilo. The first of the discs by Niño
Miguel’s nephew was ‘Rosas del amor’
(1987), when he was still backing Camarón on stages.
This début was followed by ‘Guitarra gitana’
(1997) and ‘Barrio Negro’ (2001), both by
the new-flamenco record label, Nuevos Medios.
