Ok, as a guitar player and a fan of great rock music I was a bit sceptical about listening to an instrumental spanish guitar album. I admit I wasn't expecting to like it.
Let's just say how wrong I was! This is guitar music for guitar players but also doubles as great background music for ... Read review
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created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The ...
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
On their 2006 self-titled album, Rodrigo y Gabriela offer up a fierce set of acoustic
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instrumentals that garnered the Mexican guitar duo international attention. Technically accomplished, playful, and emotive, these tracks work in the flamenco and folk...
created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The ...
created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitar styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion are musts, and the presence on "Ixtapa" of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
On their 2006 self-titled album, Rodrigo y Gabriela offer up a fierce set of acoustic
... more
instrumentals that garnered the Mexican guitar duo international attention. Technically accomplished, playful, and emotive, these tracks work in the flamenco and folk vernaculars while reverberating with rock energy, as revealed on the fleet-fingered Tamacun and the highly percussive Diablo Rojo. However, the real showstoppers on RODRIGO Y GABRIELA are the pair's excellent covers of Metallica's Orion and Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, which both honor the hard-rock originals, and resonate with impressive added flourishes.[Reviews]Observer Music Monthly (04/06, p.55) - 3 (out of 5) - ...the sparks really fly.n
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo and Gabriela are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based Mexicans with a unique sound
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created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitar styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion are musts, and the presence on "Ixtapa" of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Rodrigo and Gabriela are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based Mexicans with a unique sound
... more
created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitar styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion are musts, and the presence on "Ixtapa" of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitar styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion are musts, and the presence on "Ixtapa" of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitar styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion are musts, and the presence on "Ixtapa" of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
Advantages: Blend of heavy metal and latin guitar styles produces an excellent sound Disadvantages: Entirely instumental so not for the lyric orientated
...and rhythmic. The two players rodrigo and gabriela play together seamlessly with rodrigo providing the introcate melodies and gabriela providing the wall of sound that make up the rhythmic strumming sections of each track.
Tamucan is the first track (and also the first single) from the album and is deserved of a five star rating. The following tracks diablo rojo and vikingman do not fail to live up to this standard.
I feel it is all too often in ... ...and start to fill space and on first listening I often wait for this decline to occur. This album however does not drop from its five star standard at any moment and each track is memerable in its own way.
Then we come to the covers. First, Stairway to Heaven a track that I would consider untouchable. Covering this would only end in disappointment, right ? wrong again. This version of stairway has been given a fast paced latin feel while conserving ...
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Album Notes: On their 2006 self-titled album, Rodrigo y Gabriela offer up a fierce set of acoustic instrumentals that garnered the Mexican guitar duo international attention. Technically accomplished, playful, and emotive, these tracks work in the flamenco and folk vernaculars while reverberating with rock energy, as revealed on the fleet-fingered "Tamacun" and the highly percussive "Diablo Rojo." However, the real showstoppers on RODRIGO Y GABRIELA are the pair's excellent covers of Metallica's "Orion" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," which both honor the hard-rock originals, and resonate with impressive added flourishes.
Titles on disc 1
1.: Tamacun
2.: Diablo Rojo
3.: Vikingman
4.: Satori
5.: Ixtapa
6.: Stairway To Heaven
7.: Orion
8.: Juan Loco
9.: PPA
10.: Documentary (DVD)
11.: Tamacun (DVD)
12.: Stairway To Heaven (live/DVD)
13.: Diablo Rojo (live/DVD)
14.: Guitar Tuition (DVD)
Titles on disc 2
1.: Documentary (DVD)
2.: Tamacun (live/DVD)
3.: Stairway To Heaven (live/DVD)
4.: Diablo Rojo (live/DVD)
5.: Guitar Tuition (DVD)
6.: Picture Gallery
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