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Oscar Lopez is another Spanish guitarist who has appropriated elements of the flamenco style to create stilted parodies of the real thing. To be fair, Oscar has slightly more improvisational nous, but what’s lacking is cultural catharsis. All the wrinkles have been ironed out so that what we have left is pleasant, non-confrontational elevator shaft fodder with only the occasional hint that maybe…just maybe Oscar is capable of creating something meaningful. In some cases to describe a great artist’s best work as indistinguishable from his/her worst could be construed as a form of flattery. Unfortunately this is not the case with Flashback – The Best of Oscar Lopez (Narada World). Feb 2003