Dos guitarras flamencas

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Two Flamenco Guitars in Stereo is the first of three collaborative albums by Paco de Lucía and Ricardo Modrego. They met while working for José Greco, a flamenco dancer and agent, and wrote most of the music while traveling around the world. When they returned to Madrid, they tried to pitch their work to local labels but were turned down.

Modrego’s father knew Ricardo Fernández de Latorre at Philips Music, which helped them get a meeting. They had only a rough home recording and no studio time, but they pitched it anyway. Six hours after dropping off the tape, they were asked to come back the next day, February 11, 1964, and sign a two-year contract that launched De Lucía’s career.

Recording happened over two days, six pieces per day, on only two tracks. Because the studio had no cuts, any mistake meant starting over from scratch. Stereo was new at the time, and the album sounded poor on mono players, so Modrego rented a stereo record player to listen properly.

The album was released in 1964 as a studio Flamenco record, running 46:40, on Polygram Iberica. It was followed in 1965 by 12 canciones de García Lorca para guitarra.