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Sharon and I may be a little behind on this, but we heard a song by the guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, on KFOG and promptly bought an album … their latest … “Live in Japan.” It’s really hard to describe the music precisely, but we both found it, in a word, amazing. It’s some of the most mind-blowing guitar work I’ve ever heard:  incredibly technical AND beautiful. It evokes flamenco in that it’s performed on classical guitars with high-speed rhythms hammered out on the guitar bodies, but is usually described in reviews as Latin tinged fusion of a variety of styles, notably including speed metal. When Sharon and I heard it, we thought of very high-energy flamenco with beautiful melodies and runs and intricate picking. The percussion (again, all on the guitars) is amazingly complex and powerful. Anyway, check it out.  Their stuff is on iTunes and Amazon, and you can listen to some full length songs on their myspace page.  You’ll be glad you did.