Author: Chao, Manu

Format: Import

Release Date: 22-01-2003

Details: Product Description The First Solo Album from the Former Frontman of Mano Negra is an Enchanting Trip Through Latin-flavored World-beat Rock, Reliant on a Potpourri of Musical Styles from Traditional Latin and Salsa to Dub to Rock and Roll to French Pop to Experimental Rock to Techno. Amazon.ca Whether with Mano Negra, for which he was the charismatic frontman, or alone in the "underground," Manu Chao has never missed his mark. So, after leading the iconic alternative rock band of the 80s in France, Manu Chao disappeared. He was secretly preparing the melodic bombshell that is Clandestino. This first solo album, which focuses on Chao's natural (Latin) inclination, quickly becomes obsessive. Each song, built on an almost childlike, rudimentary model, instantly turns into an idée fixe. You record it on the first listen. Subsequent listens become inevitable, mandatory. Manu Chao seems to have wanted to keep the flower of each composition, just as one gathers the fleur de sel. The surface. The best. The boy, an incurable nomad, plays everything on it, especially his acoustic guitar, and sings the vocal parts in moving harmonies. Haunting nursery rhymes ("Clandestino", "Desaparecido") and wanderings smeared with samples and sound tricks ("Mentira"), the tracks follow one another like a journey toward a country that is familiar but always surprising. A few guests, met along the way, reinforce this image, from the voice of Subcommander Marcos to former members of Mano. In Spanish especially, and a little in English and French, the Clandestino is at home everywhere. --José Ruiz

UPC: 724384578329

EAN: 0724384578329

Languages: French

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood