Rosas del Amor is a 1987

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album, the debut solo album of Spanish guitarist

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. Note the album art and tracklist running order shown is from the 1997 CD reissue on

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/ EMI 100 and different from the original Hispavox 1987 LP release.

Track listing

#Dedicado a Camarón (3:52) #La Chanca (4:03) #Rosas del Amor (4:04) #La Andonda (3:08) #Puerta de Sevilla (3:18) #Barrio Santiago (3:47) #Alejandría (4:09) #Soledad (4:33)

Reception

Richard Nidel considers ''Rosas del Amor'' to be an "important, groundbreaking CD." Stewart Mason of ''

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'' says of it, "Rosas del Amor is a legendary album in modern flamenco music; it wouldn't be far off to call it the Spanish folk guitar equivalent of

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. Rosas del Amor takes traditional flamenco music and injects liberal amounts of jazz influence, specifically the French gypsy-influenced jazz of

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and

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. The resulting intermingling of styles works beautifully, as the two forms of music (not as far apart as one might initially think) blend harmoniously into a fully realized, richly textured whole."

References

1987 albums Flamenco albums EMI Latin albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub