Oscar Lopez - Armando's fire (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) & mp3 @ 320 kbps | tracks: 13 | Cover | 50:50 | ~ 355 Mb & 120 Mb
Label: Narada | 5% recovery record | Genre: Nouveau flamenco, guitar, new age
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) & mp3 @ 320 kbps | tracks: 13 | Cover | 50:50 | ~ 355 Mb & 120 Mb
Label: Narada | 5% recovery record | Genre: Nouveau flamenco, guitar, new age
This album with the new-flamenco guitarist Oscar Lopez, won the 2002 Juno Award of Best Instrumental Album of the year. The album is inspired by Lopez's inner voice, Armando - Lopez's middle name, and noted by some as the "other" Lopez persona. "Armando is as much a part of me as Oscar," he explains. "He has a strong voice, and so I decided that this album was his chance for self-expression." A 'must have' album of the charismatic guitarist. Enjoy.
If someone were to invent a category called "smooth flamenco," Armando's Fire by acoustic guitarist Oscar Lopez would qualify–and probably stand as one of the more attractive entries in the field. Lopez, born in Chile and a resident of Canada since 1979, is a skilled, often exciting player who, on his third release, displays a preference for melody and accessibility over flamboyant virtuosity. This approach yields a handsome, polished assortment of flamenco-minded instrumentals (with traces of jazz and pop elements) that generally favors romanticism over showmanship. It's not exactly a sleepy album, though after a rousing, trumpet-powered opener (the title track), the recording's prevailing mood (near medium on the heat index) is established in the second piece, the subdued, sweetly flowing "Walking Through the Pyramid." Lopez and his ensemble, in fact, only work up a lather one other time on the disc ("Dance of the Sun"). Yet Lopez (whose middle name is Armando) demonstrates exquisite fingerwork throughout, and his compositions (the charming "Gypsy Soul," the warm, breezy "Frontiers," the animated "Latino") are refined and flavorful–smooth, with an elevated sense of style.TRACKLISTTerry Wood - Amazon
01. Armando's Fire 3:26
02. Walking Through The Pyramid (Caminando A Travez De La Piramide) 3:55
03. Games Of Love (Juegos De Amor) 3:17
04. Chile 3:28
05. Frontiers 3:52
06. Gypsy Soul (Alma Gitana) 3:31
07. Latino 4:26
08. Waiting Fou You (Esperando Por Ti) 3:12
09. Dance Of The Sun (Baile Del Sol) 3:42
10. Nostalgia 5:28
11. Other Faces (Otras Caras) 3:55
12. Romance 3:19
13. Better Late (Mas Vale Tarde)
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Oscar Lopez / Armando's Fire
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EAC extraction logfile from 11. April 2008, 22:45
Oscar Lopez / Armando's Fire
Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 30
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:25.37 | 0 | 15411
2 | 3:25.37 | 3:54.68 | 15412 | 33029
3 | 7:20.30 | 3:16.57 | 33030 | 47786
4 | 10:37.12 | 3:28.15 | 47787 | 63401
5 | 14:05.27 | 3:52.03 | 63402 | 80804
6 | 17:57.30 | 3:31.42 | 80805 | 96671
7 | 21:28.72 | 4:28.03 | 96672 | 116774
8 | 25:57.00 | 3:11.55 | 116775 | 131154
9 | 29:08.55 | 3:42.27 | 131155 | 147831
10 | 32:51.07 | 5:27.58 | 147832 | 172414
11 | 38:18.65 | 3:54.60 | 172415 | 190024
12 | 42:13.50 | 3:19.27 | 190025 | 204976
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