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Ottmar Liebert: Angels & Poets
1990

Ottmar's Web Site

Angels & Poets Jacket Credits
"Ottmar's flamenco guitars were built by Señor Lorenzo Pimentel of Albuquerque, New Mexico."

The guitar on the Poets & Angels CD cover is a Grand Concert built with very old Brazilian Rosewood for the bask and sides with a European Spruce top, Ebony fingerboard and Spanish Cedar neck.

CD available from Amazon.com

Bio from Wikipedia
"Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of hist time traveling Europe and Asia with his family. Ottmar, who leads an ensemble called Luna Negra has gained polularity performing as a touring band, and recording music albums in a 'Noveaur Flamenco' style, mixing elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, Hindu meditation, and other genres."

Pimentel Guitar featured on Ottmar Liebert's Noveau Flamenco CD cover

Amazon Editorial Reviews
"Ottmar Liebert's most famous, if not accomplished, effort gave a new genre its title, the New Age market a new champion, and flamenco purists -- like Paco de Lucia, who despite a thank-you on the album, has called Liebert's music "worthless" -- a new punching bag. All of which is a little beside the point: Liebert's rhythms may not be complex compas, but he perfectly captures the laid-back, open-space feel of his adopted home of Santa Fe with simple two-chord progressions and piquant nylon-string guitar lines that remain memorable long after listening. The indeible "Heart Still Beating" and the elegaic "Moon over Trees" bear this out. Liebert would up his technical and compositional ante considerably on Sola Para Ti and Borrasca, but there's still something undeniabley balmy about this low-key debut -- replete with lush New Agey synthsizer washes - that begs one to light the scented votive candles and get cozy."
-- James Rotondi