Monolo Franco, ALJIBE
| Type | Guitar solo |
| Author | Claude Worms |
Available
ALJIBE
MANOLO FRANCO
Score Book + CD | Author: CLAUDE WORMS | A4 - 104 pages | Spanish - English - French
ALJIBE
‘Aljibe’ heralded all that Manolo Franco would bring to his musical artistic life: an extraordinary sound — round and truly flamenco — and an emphatic, clear, clean and polished technique. Whether soleá, bulerías, alegrías or any other style, he was already a phenomenon of musicality and creativity. This album was all it took to rank him among the most important composers of flamenco guitar music. These pieces — true documents for any flamenco guitar player — are unknown to later generations because that recording was not issued again and the originals, dormant, were waiting to be awakened to take their place again among the splendors of flamenco. This was an absence of a transcendental chapter of flamenco guitar since the compositions in this album, true masterpieces, until now were available only in an old recording made by the Spanish national television network. The appearance of these transcriptions is worth a lively round of applause because it is a rescue of something that belongs to all of us. The virtuosity and sensitivity of the interpretation are a gift, note by note — yours to enjoy and admire.
CLAUDE WORMS' BIOGRAPHY
Born: Paris 12 April 1949. Degree in History and Philosophy. Flamenco guitar studies with Jose Peña, then with Manuel Cano, Miguel Valencia and Perico el del Lunar Hijo. In charge of flamenco guitar courses both for soloists and those accompanying Cante together with singers Maguy Naimi and Ruben Haroutunian in Nice, Cannes, Argelès Gazost, Arcachon, Biarritz, Paris (Peña Flamenco en France), Ris-Orangis (Centre de Musique et Danses Traditionnelles), as well as The Conservatoire de Musique de Rodez, Le Mans, Evry Dugny, Bobigny, Milly la Forêt, Vigneux sur Seine… Assistant to Victor Monge "Serranito", Oscar Herrero, Manuel Parilla. Currently, teaching at ATLA School (Paris). Lecture-concerts on the history and aesthetics of Cante with Maguy Naimi and Ruben Haroutunian at the above mentioned Conservatoire, the "Weltfestival der laute" in Frankfurt (CD Network 54 696) and the universities of Nice, Amiens, Evry… Contributor to the Magazine "Les Cahiers de la guitare", and "Guitare Classique". Editor of "Flamenco Magazine".
