''Castro Marín'' is the thirteenth studio album by the Spanish composer and guitarist

Paco de Lucía Francisco Sánchez Gómez (; 21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamen ...

. All songs were written by Paco de Lucía. The title was a tribute to his mother, a Portuguese woman from

Castro Marim Castro Marim (), officially the Town of Castro Marim (), is a town and a municipality in the southern region of Algarve, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 6,747, in an area of 300.84 km2. The current mayor is Francisco Amaral, elected ...

, in the

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region of southern Portugal.

Track listing

#"Monasterio de Sal" (''Colombiana'') – 4:43 #"Gitanos Andaluces" (''Bulerías'') – 4:55 #"Castro Marín" (''Fandangos'') – 4:11 #"Herencia" (''Soleá'') – 5:35 #"Convite" (''Rumba'') eaturing Larry Coryell– 5:08 #"Palenque" eaturing Larry Coryell & John McLaughlin– 7:22 as per CD back label #"Huida" – 3:58

Musicians

Flamenco guitar A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but with lower action, thinner tops and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings, like the classical guitar, but it generally possesses a livelier, grittier sound compared ...

Larry Coryell Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist, widely considered the "godfather of fusion". Alongside Gábor Szabó, he was a pioneer in melding jazz, country and rock ...

- Acoustic guitar * John McLaughlin - Acoustic guitar,

12 string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in ...

Carles Benavent Carles Benavent (born 1 March 1954) is a Catalonia, Catalan flamenco and jazz bass player. Biography Benavent was born in the Poble Sec neighborhood in Barcelona. He started playing the bass when he was thirteen years old, attracted by blues an ...

Bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

References

* Gamboa, Manuel José and Nuñez, Faustino. (2003). ''Paco de Lucía.'' Madrid:Universal Music Spain. 1981 albums Paco de Lucía albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub