"Montar el Viento (Riding on the Wind)" genre: Tropical
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	Four Spanish guitars and one two violins are riding on the South American wind...Latin Rumba with an easy listening quality.
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	Story Behind the Song My favorite music to play is like this song...Many spanish guitars and a rumba groove.Produced by Gypsy Groove. Lyrics INTRODUCTION Part one(part2 to be find at song Tarantas de corazon) Flamenco is one of the greatest musical forms of Europe. The roots of flamenco have evolved in southern Spain from many sources: Morocco, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Greece, and other parts of the Near and Far East. How exactly they came together as flamenco is a subject of great debate and a very interesting story. The gypsies from the south of Spain created this music day by day since their arrival to Spain in the 15th century. Inside and outside of flamenco it is widely accepted that they came from a northern region of India, (this territory called Sid belongs to Pakistan nowadays) wich they left in several waves of migrants because of invasions and wars with foreign conquers. The tribes of Sind moved to Egypt and stayed in Giptanos until they were thrown out, and this time their first new destination was Checoslovaquia in Europe, but they knew that they were not going to be welcomed anywhere because of their number so they decided to divide themselves in three groups that moved to different parts of Europe. The first document to register the arrival of gypsies to Spain is from 1447. Carmen Amaya, dancer & singer. (1913-1963) Those known as Gypsies called themselves "Ruma -Calk", ( it means man from the plains or runner from the plains) and spoke "Calo" (from the indian dialect Maharata); until the end of this century they used to be nomads, crafstmen and shepherds. The gypsies have always lived as a nomad culture and when it comes to music they are acostumed to take the local music and make their own versions from it. Music is very important in their celebrations and everyday life. All they need to start to make music is a voice, and they soon start to add rythms with their hands and feet. They have always liked embelishments, improvisation and virtuosity and in Andalucía they found a rich ground for their musicality, fertilized by hundreds of years of high culture, where not only Morish, but also Judish, Catholic and local musical influences mixed. The Mores had occupied Spain, and particularly the south, for about 800 years, science, economy and culture flurished in a rich mixture of cultures. During this time the predecessor of the flamenco guitar was introduced and developped. It is believed that the word "flamenco" is a mis-pronunciation of the Arabic words "felag" (peasant) and "mengu" (fugitive). It is known that flamenco began to be used as a synonimous for "Andalucian gypsy" in the 18th century. It was around the time Gypsies arrived to Spain, that Columbus set out to the west to stablish a new route to the Indies and discovered an unknown continent (guess what). They came at a bad time because by then the Catholic Kings were trying to take Mores out. The city of Granada in the southern region of Andalucía was the last to fall (1492) and after that, due to the constant influence of the church, the persecution of the "non-catholic" went on for more than two centuries. The Catholic Kings wanted everybody to behave like spanish catholics, and the gypsies had their own nomad customs and a language, Caló, mixed with spanish vocabulary so they were forbbiden to speak it and forced to have a permanent address and a permanent job. Nowadays a lot of Caló words are used in the spanish language, specially in the south of Spain. In the following century they worked and died in large numbers in the mines, lived in caves in the mountains, where hundreds of Jews, Muslims and "pagan" gypsies had taken refuge from the forced conversions and clearances effected by the Catholic kings and the Church, so they had to have celebrations in secret even when they were being invited to the parties of the rich to perform their music. Often the songs where about the injustice done to them by the very same upperclass that couldn't understand what the Gypsies where singing about. The main flamenco centres and families are still found today in quarters and towns of gypsy and refugee origin, such as Alcalá, Utrera, Jerez, Cádiz, and the Triana barrio of Sevilla. As time passed, the laws lightened up a little, the Gypsies sort of adapted, and more people began to take interest in their music. At some point, after a good mixing of musical backgrounds, the locals started to adopte and to interprete some of this music, since then there has been a peculiar feedback between classical guitarists and flamenco players in Spain. The first flamenco score was found in an italian opera ( "The lucky Mask".Neri, 18th century) and it can be said that at the end of the 19th century, flamenco had settled in the form known and performed today, but this has to be understood knowing that flamenco is a music that have thrived day by day in live performances since its first steps. Continue at song Tarantas de corazon

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