# Paco de Lucía — Entre Dos Aguas

Paco de Lucía’s Entre Dos Aguas (1973) is No. 1 in our Flamenco ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 1973
- **Label:** Philips
- **On one list:** Flamenco
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Paco de Lucía](https://waxonia.com/artist/paco-de-lucia/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/paco-de-lucia--entre-dos-aguas/

## What we say

### No. 1 in [Flamenco](https://waxonia.com/genre/flamenco/)

A rumba recorded to fill space on an album, which became the record that made flamenco guitar a world instrument. De Lucía plays it as though the difficulty were beneath mentioning.

## Analysis

8 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to, 23% of it spent climbing.

- **Tempo:** 136 BPM — holds throughout
- **Key:** E minor
- **Dynamic range:** 1.9 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- **Length:** 5:24

- `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: drums, bass, other
- `0:19` B · **steady** (bar 11), instrumental — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: bass, other
- `0:36` B · **build** (bar 21), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, bass, other
- `1:51` C · **peak** (bar 63), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, other
- `2:45` C · **breakdown** (bar 94), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, other
- `3:18` C · **peak** (bar 112), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, other
- `3:35` C · **breakdown** (bar 122), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, other
- `4:15` B · **lift** (bar 145), instrumental — a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build — playing: drums, bass, other

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix
- **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix
- **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix
- **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Paco%20de%20Luc%C3%ADa%20Entre%20Dos%20Aguas) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s)

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