Because Paco has been for many years considered the finest flamenco accompanist in all of Spain, when he is left to his own devices as a soloist, he is modest and demure in his virtuosity (which is incredible). He plays not to prove how fast and accurately his fingers can fly over the strings, but to show how deeply wonderful the music that he plays is. He places himself not in front, but behind the music, so that nothing comes between the music and the listener.
For those aprehensive about such things, there are no voice songs in the CD: only guitar and the accompaniment mentioned in the first piece. The other pieces in the record are standard structural forms of cante jondo: taranto, alegría, siguiriya (ah, so beautiful, this one), bulería, soleá, and granaina. The playing time is a little over 57 minutes and the audio quality is excellent.
