- Audio CD (Mar 2 2007)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Rand
- ASIN: B000I0QGWS
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Gotan Project literally took the world by storm in 2003 with its million-selling La Revancha Del Tango. Skillfully mixing the heated passion of tango with the cool insistent beats of dance music, the group kept the best of both genres as it offered up an unheralded fusion. This time around, the production team delves further into the tradition, cutting down on the dub production filigree and overarching electronic programming--now sexy grooves often come on the back of organic beats and an unprocessed sound captured during live studio sessions in Buenos Aires. This new focus is furthered with conventional bandoneon soloing as well as acoustic piano and string section backing. Nonetheless, kids craving to cut a rug will dig "Diferente" and "Notas," while the robust "Amor Porteno" (featuring Calexico) is the group's most muscular tune to date. More skilled than the debut, Lunatico is no sophomore slump, though hardcore house music fans may want to wait for remixes. --Tad Hendrickson
Album Description
Limited Edition enhanced two CD version of Gotan Project's latest opus. After the worldwide success of Lunatico, Gotan Project are releasing this Christmas Edition for this festive season. Disc One contains the fantastic original full Lunatico album while the bonus CD, Disc Two, contains five unreleased tracks, two enhanced music videos, Santa Maria Live Sessions and more. Eduardo and fellow Gotan producers; Parisian Philippe Cohen Solal and Swiss-born Christoph H. Müller, had flown from their homes in Paris to record the new album, Lunatico, in Buenos Aires' prestigious Studio ION - the famed venue where tango greats like Astor Piazzolla had once laid down their aural magic to vast reel-to-reel tape machines. Fellow collaborators; Argentine Bandoneonist, Nini Flores, and Barcelona-based vocalist, Cristina Vilallonga, joined up with them at their Substudioz back in the French capital and thus began the completion, hidden under top secrecy. Ya Basta. 2006.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Adventurous.,
By gizgoogmai (London, England UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lunatico (Audio CD)
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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4.6 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews) 31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gotan Project's At Its Best,
By Juan Mobili - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lunatico (Audio CD)
Fundamentally, a return to Revancha del Tango, yet not quite. Lunatico moves forward like a big city-New York or Buenos Aires-exploring new boundaries but remaining true to its cadences and beats.Even the Rap in "Mi Confesion" seems fitting, faithful in a way to the melancholy of Tango, also particularly present in "Tango Cancion" and the gorgeous "Celos." Of all the good and not so good Electro-Tango that has come out in recent years, even Supervielle, Federico Auberle or Bajo Fondo, Gotan Project's remains the most substantial work being done today in "renewing" Tango once more. The writing is inspired, and Gustavo Beytelman through his piano-and arranging and conducting of all strings-is specially stunning. Precise and economic in his solos but not without his tender side. Buenos Aires music at its best. Another perfect move has been choosing Cristina Villalongo to lend her voice, never dramatic yet bringing precise nuance and character through her singing. Other tracks to distinguish are "Amor Porteno," a collaboration with the band Calexico, as well as the Electronica take on "La Viguela" and Ry Cooder's "Paris, Texas" transformed into longings right out of Argentina's folklore. All in all, a tremendous return to form and a whole new expanse of sounds and evocative possibilities for the New Tango. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Music,
By L. BELL "material girl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lunatico (Audio CD)
I was so happy that a friend turned me on to Gotan Project a few months before the holidays. I ended up giving Lunatico to several friends and colleagues as gifts for Christmas. They all absolutely love Gotan Project. A really uplifting, energizing and sexy CD!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Heat... by way of the cool.,
By Tammi L. Coles "book group moderator" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lunatico (Audio CD)
I bought their first album, La Revancha del Tango, on a whim when my favorite D.C. haunt, Olssons Books & Records, was playing them over the store's speakers. The store's music buyer, Werner, was always good at recommending music from classic blues to "electronica" and Revancha was haunting. It is *still* growing on me. While I was excited to learn about the new album, I was also a bit wary as Revancha was so very, very good. I am glad to say that Lunatico actually bests the first album. I am fond of thinking of music as venues so consider "Amor Porteño" a quietly intense tango bar, "Differente" its wildly exhilarating opposite, "Notas" your private living room's dance floor (you're embarrassed by how it makes you want to move), and "Celos" that first date cafe with the man you've been dreaming of... And kudos to them for their powerfully poignant "Paris, Texas" with its pounding drums and wrenching piano and accordion sounds. HIGHLY recommended.
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