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The Globe and Mail, Album Review >>
4 STARS
This is Pepe Habichuela’s world, the rest of us are just visiting,” they would say, were this album being judged on reality TV. Because clearly it’s the guitarist’s deep understanding of flamenco that’s the guiding hand here. Not surprising, given his stature as the most famous of five generations of famed Carmona guitarists. (“Habichuela” is a nickname, meaning “beans.”) But jazz bassist Holland immersed himself in Pepe’s world before the recording was made and it sounds like it. The jazz elements seamlessly cleave to the flamenco forms, which cover the gamut from buleria to rumba. Holland also contributes two originals and one, the Pat Metheny-ish Joyride, is light-as-air-catchy. It’s also the most overt instance of what some listeners may find not to like about the music – at times it seems almost too polite. But others will find Hands a marvellous, if subtle, expression of the coming together of two brilliant musical minds. 02/01/11 >> go there
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