If you like Gypsy Kings you should really try out South Beach�s finest.....Alex Fox. :l: He has been around a few years, but is definitely worth checking out.

Does anyone in the board like Rev�lver?

:cheers:

Hola a todos.

Thanks to Gringa for the Info on Alex Fox.

You're right, he's a great Artist.

Here are some Links to Alex Fox.

Alex Fox Link (1)

Alex Fox Link (2)

Alex Fox Link (3)

Alex Fox Link (4)

Saludos A todos

:cheers:

Anyone on the board like flamenco? If so, there's a really good complilation CD of new artists/material called 'Fragua Flamenco' which I picked up last time I was in Madrid. Karenanne

Chambao is GREAT flamenco fusion/ chill...they put out a second album last summer. its great music.

Hola todos.

Just to let all of you spanish music lovers out there know about an album that I got while in Madrid during christmas.

I got about several CD's and one of them I have not stopped playing since I got back, and it is called "el Barrio" (�ngel malherido).

It is a truly brilliant album, and I strongly recommend it to any of you who are in tune with modern flamenco music.

If anyone has heard any new stuff recently, let us know about it, and post any links to any websites associated with the artist/s, and we can all check it out.

Please go and buy el Barrio, you will love it.

search results for �ngel malherido click here.

Saludos a todos
y 'cheers' :cheers:

Another great post, Iberian. I will check the guy out!

I don't care for Alex Fox. I am sorry!
My friend Jaime sells his CD's at Artespana Plus in St. Augustine, and makes me listes to the CD's whenever I vist, but I just don't care for him.

BTW, Chica, I discovered Alabina about 6 years ago, and am a faithful fan! She does not have a big repertoire, at least here in the states I cannot seem to find a lot of her work.

I also like Cesaria Evora, for a mellow evening, watching the sun set in the ocean drinking a MARGARITA!

No-one's mentioned Juan Carmona yet.

You can download a few MP3s from here:

http://www.juancarmona.com/soundsus.html

Let me know what you think

I have just fallen in love :l: with Coti Sorokin!!!!!! OK he is argentinian but he is sooooo pretty and his songs remind me of Al Stewart (when he was young!!) Melinda - tell me I�m sad!!!!!!

For those who are in the US and have kids, check out Jose Luis Orozco.

He lives in San Francisco, but comes from Mexico originally and has dedicated himself to spreading Spanish language children's songs across the US. We saw him perform here in DC at the Mexican Cultural Institute and then bought a couple of his CDs. My son loves and sing along to them every day. And we have learned tons of Spanish from them, as well.

For adults, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the franco-gallego-espanol Manu Chao (formerly of Mano Negra). Love his stuff, though it defies classification.

Also Caetano Veloso sings a lot in Spanish.

:cheers: For Caetano! Hey Madsue, of course you are not sad! You're in love!

Oye, I've got an album by a Singer called Antonio Orozco, (any relation to jose Luis?) on an album called Semilla del Silencio, that I picked up last June at fnac Madrid, and also got the Album called 'Loco por ti' by Caetano Veloso, both very good albums.

I always get quite a few cd's in Madrid, often in Barcelona aswell, there is one really good cd shop in a street close to where I stay in Barcelona called C/ Tallers, it runs from Ronda Sant Antoni through to La Rambla, so if you go there and are looking for a good one, try there first, but of course you've got the usual shops like fnac & Corte ingles to buy cd's as well as many other places.

But more lately, I have been buying a lot of cd's in Madrid, and have got many well know names in my collection, such as Bustamante, Alex Ubago, David DeMaria, David Bisbal, Pasion Vega, Juan Valderrama, Hakim, Fran Parea, Antonio Flores, Ricky Martin, Luis miguel, Jose Manuel Soto, Manu Tenorio, Manu Guix, Patricia Manterola, Natalia, Nuria Fergo, ni�a Pastori, Marta Sanchez, Manuel Carrasco, Hevia, Carlos Nu�ez, Diego Torres, and god knows how many other names I have got in here, too many to remember and list here, so many albums and Grandes Exitos, you mention the name of a singer or group in spain today, and I've probably got it somewhere.

Most of it is for my own listening pleasure, but I also buy much of it because I know that my Spanish friends like many of the most popular singers like Bisbal and Bustamante etc etc, and I take them over to them at the weekends sometimes for a meal, and they can play all their favorites, and I am pretty easy going when it comes to Music, and will listen to almost anything in Spanish, and in fact, (although they get a lot of stick from certain Individuals on here,) I do like to listen to singers such as Bisbal, Bustamante, Ricky Martin, Angel Malherido, and many others that are very popular in Spain right now, not because they are popular, but because they sing well, and I like the Lyrics very much too, (they are clean lyrics) and it's very good listening practice for me to listen songs in Spanish and develop a better understanding of certain sentiments, which have no equivalent in English, and of course I still have my favorite music, the Flamenco of Andalucia, you just can't beat it, that and the pipers of Galicia and Asturias - Gaiteros, brilliant.

Yes I can honestly say that the artist's in Spain in general are pretty bloody good, and as far as I'm concerned, knock the socks of the the British music industry, which has been producing some real crap for far too long now. I can't make comment on the american music market, because I'm not from there, but will say this, (It Aint good)

Well anyway, I'm in Madrid and still looking for new stuff, and will keep you posted as & when I find any albums that are good.

cheers my dears :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Hi guys,

Chambao is definitely a great Spanish group - chill-out album for the summer evenings "Endorfinas en la mente". Highly recommended.

More recommendations:

Cabra Mecanica
Celtas Cortos
Mana
and of course the inimitable Joaquin Sabina.

If anyone mentions "Upa Dance" I will find their CD and break it

Thank goodness for eMule and Kazaa-lite (and maybe top-manta) for bringing music to the masses! :b: Not that I would condone online downloading of music...

Any idea where in Spain to download MP3s? Ola and I were out at a bar last night (shocking, I know) and heard this music we really liked. I asked, and the guy said "El Barrio" as though it was a group-but looking at this thread, it looks like it's an album name-but Itunes doesn't have it. So what is the Spanish version of Itunes?

Go here.......

http://www.flamencodigital.com

http://www.canalquo.com/musica/descargar-disco-2327.php


"El Barrio" 'is' an album by Angel Malherido & his group, and I can tell you that some of his records are pretty impressive stuff, and he is well known & respected in flamenco circles all over Spain.

You might like to check out "Triana" as well, I've some of theirs, and although it's not exactly flamenco in the traditional sense, it does pass perfectly as being "Andalusian" music, and is also extremely popular.

If you're going to look for a seriously decent 'Flamenco-sounding' album, you have got to go & get one called "RUMBA GITANA" it's well known, and in my opinion (although very 'moderno') up-beat & funky, it for me is one of the most fantastic pieces of work that I have heard in over five years or more, and absolutely guarantee 100% that when you hear this album, you will not be able to control your urge to get down on the dance floor and do your thing, this music really makes me want to do the Rumba, Tango, the funky-chicken, call it whatever you will, you just feel like you have got to get up dance to this music, *AND* I'd still call it *FLAMENCO* simply because it actually is flamenco music, and not ALL flamenco music is two cats howling over a chicken bone at 3 am in the morning, or morbid & sad sounding stuff, which is quite true, there is a lot of stuff like that around, (Cante Jondo y puro) like with the *Seguirillas* or *Seguiriyas*, all that stuff is really for the hardcore (more deeply involved in it) slightly older generation, (as is Italian Grand Opera) in my opinion, but this album "Rumba Gitana" is just about right, suits most of the slightly younger generation, who like the familiar sounds of the traditional flamenco, appeals to those who are into the dancing side of things, is very funky, Jazzy, a little blues perhaps, up-beat - up-tempo - moderno - Latin-american sounding etc, and at the same time still has got that wonderfully distinctive Andalusian rhythm and enthusiasm of El Flamenco, with that almost hypnotic sounding 'Gitanos voice' singing in the only way that a *true* flamenco singer should sing, and the guys on this album have really got all of that and a 100% more.

This really is a fantastic album, even for non-dancers like me, (I can't dance now because of a spinal problem) it still makes a great cd to listen to, and I get a lot of pleasure out of playing it.

There is a lot new or modern flamenco music out there, and there are a few websites in Spain, on which you can listen to MP3 samples of the albums, before you decide purchase, if you like the sound of them, two of the very best ones in Madrid are shown below in my signature, and I advise you to visit those two in particular, often, and soon you will come to see just how fabulous the flamenco world/community is in Spain, they have forums especially to discuss flamenco related issues, and you can ask about any flamenco album or artist that you can think of, old or new.

Anyways, enough rabbiting-on from me now, so I'll round this off by saying what I nearly always say when ending a post, and that is an expression that I picked from Capital Radio, London, way back in the seventies (in my Jazz-Funk dancing days) and that is...


Now....back to the records....