Recording
Entre Dos Aguas
Paco de Lucía
- Released
- 1973
- Label
- Philips
- On one list
- Flamenco
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Ranked No. 1 in 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
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 1.9 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 5:24
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:19Bsteadybar 11
- 0:36Bbuildbar 21
- 1:51Cpeakbar 63
- 2:45Cbreakdownbar 94
- 3:18Cpeakbar 112
- 3:35Cbreakdownbar 122
- 4:15Bliftbar 145
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:19
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 57
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:17
- Energy
- 75
- Brightness
- 93
- Density
- 22
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:15
- Energy
- 66
- Brightness
- 74
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:54
- Energy
- 94
- Brightness
- 84
- Density
- 54
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:33
- Energy
- 62
- Brightness
- 62
- Density
- 68
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:18
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 74
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:40
- Energy
- 31
- Brightness
- 75
- Density
- 37
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:09
- Energy
- 42
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 13
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- 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
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- lift
- a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.