armik - lost in paradise (MRA)

 

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armik - lost in paradise

Moving half a world away back to the linguistic source of the music that graces this column, we encounter the latest from Spanish pop flamenco (?) guitarist Armik, Lost In Paradise (MRA). His records sell by the bucketload, in itself a giant caveat emptor. I really was set to bury this one in the deepest slagpile I could find, a prejudgement fired by an audition to one of his previous records which was unmitigatingly bland. This one is a bit better, with at least a touch of meaningful space between the notes, however the end result is nothing more than slightly engaging, technically facile background music.

The irony of it all is that Spain is literally brimming with great musical performers who play both traditionally and/or fuse their inspirations with African and Cuban musics or with jazz, blues and rock. Performers like Ketama, Pata Negra, Tomatito, Paco de Lucia, Radio Tarifa, Aurora (one of pop icon Madonna’s favourite singers, can you believe?) Duquende, Jorge Pardo & Chano Dominguez, Rafael Riqueni or Karakatamba are but a few. Best you check out some of these and leave Armik lost in the paradise of his bank account. Feb 2003





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