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1. Manu Chao - Clandestino
As one of the driving forces in the French-Spanish ethno-punk band Mano Negra, songwriter-guitarist Chao delivers a surprising solo endeavor. Centered around a simple editorial writing style and an acoustic guitar, this album chronicles his political and personal travels around the world, studying the foibles of life in Latin America and the Caribbean, through Africa and back to Europe. He quotes but never actually plays salsa, son, reggae, Latin pop, and African folk music, all to the service of his songs (written and sung in English, French, and Spanish). The backing is a deceptive hodgepodge of guest artists and collected sounds he has pasted together to service the simple songs he sings. There is a circuslike feel to the whole project, a childlike sense of wonder coupled with a cynical and sometimes sly glance at the "real world." This is a single piece of work, each song bleeding into the next without stopping, a train ride that slows at each station along the way but never stops. It has charm, wit, and depth--a rare and potent combination of virtues for a pop musician. --Louis Gibson (Amazon). 01. Clandestino 02. Desaparecido 03. Bongo Bong 04. Je Ne T'aime Plus 05. Mentira 06. Lagrimas De Oro 07. Mama Call 08. Luna Y Sol 09. Por El Suelo 10. Welcome To Tijuana 11. Dia Luna... Dia Pena 12. Malegria 13. La Vie A 2 14. Minha Galera 15. La Despedida 16. El Viento Label: Virgin France S.A. Released: 1998 2. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion...Esperanza Proxima Estacion: Esperanza translates as Next Stop: Hope, with Chao articulating his feelings of rootless travelling's attendant potential for ups and downs. He should know, after having only recently put down cautious roots in Barcelona. Before that, after disbanding Mano Negra in 1995, he'd been almost constantly road-bound. 1998s Clandestino solo debut was one of the absolute cross-genre classics of the last decade, its blur of short songs prompted by Chao's persistent globe-trawling, coming across like a postcard collage of melodies, modes, found sounds and even languages. Chao continues the cultural kaleidoscope approach towards songwriting, even directly quoting from Clandestino at several key points. His vocals jump from Spanish to English, French to Arabic, then into a Portunol (Portuguese/Spanish) jumble, sometimes lurching lingos in the space of a single verse. Chao's guitaring mixes reggae choppiness with Hawaiian-slide purity, his natural knack for phonetic rhythms also highly impressive, particularly when he's jogging and skipping out his ska-inspired verses. All the while, he's dropping in crackled bursts of globalised sound effects, sneaking these beside his ramshackle backing chorus chaos, or maybe disrupting a bullying street brass arrangement, or tweaking one of his gut-infiltrating basslines. Listen to the cascading vocals of "Eldorado 1997", the accelerated cartoon ska of "Promiscuity", the lunatic swing of "Trapped By Love" or the perverted cabaret oompah of "Papito", each song weaving into the next, the mulching getting ever more manic as this album races towards its climax. --Martin Longley (Amazon). 01. Merry Blues 02. Bixo 03. Eldorado 1997 04. Promiscuity 05. La Primavera 06. Me Gustas Tu 07. Denia 08. Mi Vida 09. Trapped By Love 10. Le Rendez-Vous 11. Mr Bobby 12. Papito 13. La Chinita 14. La Marea 15. Homens 16. La Vacaloca 17. Infinita Tristeza Label: Virgin France S.A. Released: 2001 BITRATE: 320 My cd-rip (EAC and Lame) Covers Included Enjoy,Seed and Share Related Torrents
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