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ROOTDOWN COMMENT >>
Second from French tango-meisters has a more organic feel - using lots of talent from Buenos Aries, including horns, piano and some great torchy vocals - the electro beats are toned down a little and it's all the better for it - excellente...
EDITORIAL REVIEW >>
Not wanting to replicate what their debut, "La Revancha Del Tango", had achieved musically, the group has a decidedly stronger emphasis on the organic roots of tango on "Lunatico" and utilized a host of local musicians from Buenos Aires; a complete string section, two emcees, a trombonist, and Argentine piano legend and long time Gotan collaborator Gustavo Beytelmann. The result is their most accomplished work yet. "The beats are sparse and liquid, and the transition from Buenos Aires bordello to European dance floor is seamless" - Rolling Stone. "A jiggy melange of tango with a dab of dub" - Entertainment Weekly. "...an intriguing blend of traditional, passionate tango with cool, contemporary electronica" - LA Times.
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'Amor Porteno' |
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'Arrabal' |
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'Celos' |
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'Criminal' |
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'Diferente' |
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'Domingo' |
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'La Viguela' |
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'Lunatico' |
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'Mi Confesion' |
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'Notas' |
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'Paris, Texas' |
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'Tango Cancion' |
LISTENER REVIEWS >>
Pure joy:
I don't generally review CDs here on Amazon, because I think that musical taste is essentially an individual matter. However, this CD demands that I make an exception. It bowled me over when I first heard it (fittingly enough, in Buenos Aires), and continues to do so - I've been buying copies compulsively for friends, who are similarly taken with it.
Gotan Project, a French group (with several collaborators, many from Buenos Aires, on this CD) continue to be among the more interesting contributors to the genre of 'electrotango'. I find "Lunatico" even better than their earlier ""La revancha del tango". High points are "Amor Porteno", "Arrabal", Ry Cooder's instrumental track "Paris, Texas", and the insane tango rap "Mi Cancion" (I would listen to it every night in Buenos Aires, monitoring my Spanish progress by how far I could follow before getting lost).
This is joyful music that weaves in the bittersweet heart of tango while steering clear its sentimental excesses.
Beg, borrow, buy or steal this CD. You won't be sorry!
A perfecto Tango Work!:
I've heard Gotan Project at my friend's house. And loved it suddenly.
If you like Tango and modern music formats and jazz, then this is the album for you...
Interesting is, in almost every mood you can love the songs in this album. No matter you are sad, bored, happy, cheerful, angry songs will touch to your soul.
La Revancha del Tango, another album from Gotan Project is also advisable strongly. Nice listenings :)
Adventurous.:
Despite being indebted to the stroppy sound of tango, Gotan Project's first album, "La Revancha del Tango" (Revenge of the Tango), had no problem making friends. It cropped up on the last episode of 'Sex and the City' and in an advert for UPS and sold more than 1m copies. If that ubiquity came at a price, perhaps it was passion. In a hybrid of chill-out electronics and tango, something had to give.
"Lunatico" is a good follow-up, in that it pushes a more organic line, with live drumming and percussion.
"Almor Porteño" is one of the highlights of the acoustic approach: Calexico's John Convertino is so lazy and sultry on drums, it's a miracle he makes it to the end of the song on the same day as the others. And the bandoneon and guitars melt together so effectively, you wonder whether to run out and get a cloth.
"Domingo" dances well between old and new musics, but elsewhere the disc can feel like a dream about tango.
Ping-pong delays carry sounds up to the sky; the strings dance around in a big nightie of reverb; voices are filtered to sound like gramophones.
It is grainy and dubby at times (Tango Cancion), but often these effects are like an airbag. It would be nice to hear the scrape of resin on a violin bow up close, or the sudden gasp of the bandoneon - tango's musical stabs to the heart.
But that's not so easy to chill to.
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