Gotan Project | ||
| Allmusic Biography : Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound of the Gotan Project, Paris musicians Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Mueller worked together in the Boys from Brazil and Stereo Action Unlimited as early as 1996. Releasing their music on Solals Ya Basta label, the two quickly caught the ears of Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Mr. Scruff, and other electronica tastemakers, while Coca-Cola picked a Boys from Brazil track for a European television commercial. Despite all the success, the duo wanted a project that had a more consistent mood. Feeling that both tango and dub had a subdued and melancholic sound, they decided to combine the genres. With the addition of Eduardo Makaroff in 1999, they formed the Gotan Project and released their first of four 10"s on Ya Basta in February 2000. The band had drummed up quite a buzz in the U.K. and European press, and soon XL Recordings snagged the group. XL issued their full-length debut, La Revancha del Tango, in 2001, and the self-proclaimed "top Argentinian musicians exiled in Paris" toured to support the album, with guest musicians and a video backdrop by multimedia artist Prisca Lobjoy. Lunatico, from 2006, was named after tango legend Carlos Gardels champion racehorse. Tango 3.0 appeared in 2010. In April of 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of La Revancha del Tango, the Gotan Project enlisted the stars of the nueva cumbia scene to remix the album and retitled it La Revancha en Cumbia. It was expanded and released as a full-length on CD in October of that year. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 11 Title: La revancha del tango Released: 2001-10-22 Tracks: 10 Duration: 58:46 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Queremos paz (05:16) 2 Época (04:28) 3 Chunga’s Revenge (05:01) 4 Tríptico (08:26) 5 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (05:58) 6 Una música brutal (04:11) 7 El capitalismo foráneo (06:13) 8 Last Tango in Paris (05:50) 9 La del ruso (06:22) 10 Vuelvo al sur (06:58) |
| La revancha del tango : Allmusic album Review : An unrivaled collection of themes representing a unique fusion amid traditional forms of music and the nouvelle fields of electronica, Gotan Projects La Revancha del Tango discloses unknown frontiers for the modern beat explorers. Inspired by Argentinean tango, Philippe Cohen Solal and Christophe H. Müller, responsible for projects such as Boys From Brazil or Stereo Action Unlimited, united their efforts with Eduardo Makaroff to record what ultimately became a daring musical piece. Mixing styles like dub and downbeat and enrolling the talents of Argentinean musicians like Gustavo Beytelmann and Nini Flores, the founding trio of Gotan Project managed to deliver a unique debut album. "Tríptico," "Santa Maria (Del Buen Aire)," and "El Capitalismo Foraneo" are just of the three themes revealing the trios composing intuition, manipulating the romanticism and dark inspiration of Argentinean illustrative street music with novel electronica. Operating with instruments like the bandoneon, along with modern percussion, Gotan implements an exclusive creative challenge. "Vuelvo Ar Sur," an Astor Piazzolla original composition vocalized by Cristina Villalonga, closes this unequaled set of melodies, confirming Gotans sole extent of melody exploration. | ||
 | Album: 2 of 11 Title: Una música brutal Released: 2003 Tracks: 4 Duration: 23:27 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Una música brutal (radio edit) (03:50) 2 Una música brutal (04:11) 3 Santa María (Tom Middletons Cosmos mix) (08:20) 4 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (Pepe Braddock mix) (07:06) |
 | Album: 3 of 11 Title: Inspiración Espiración: A Gotan Project DJ Set Selected & Mixed by Philippe Cohen Solal Released: 2004-09-14 Tracks: 13 Duration: 1:06:48 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 La Cumparsita (00:32) 2 Cité Tango (03:54) 3 Round About Midnight (07:09) 4 Confianzas (05:28) 5 The Man (El Hombre remix) (07:12) 6 Percusion, Part 1 (04:14) 7 La del ruso (Calexico version) (07:01) 8 El Capitalismo Foráneo (Antipop Consortium remix) (03:26) 9 Tres y dos (Tango) (02:52) 10 M.A.T.H. (02:55) 11 Tríptico (Peter Kruder Trip de Luxe) (10:10) 12 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (Pepe Bradock Wider remix) (06:16) 1 La cruz del sur (Intervallo) (05:35) |
 | Album: 4 of 11 Title: Lunático Released: 2006-04-10 Tracks: 12 Duration: 55:38 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Amor Porteño (05:07) 2 Notas (04:20) 3 Diferente (05:23) 4 Celos (05:30) 5 Lunático (02:59) 6 Mi Confesión (04:20) 7 Tango Canción (04:23) 8 La Vigüela (05:00) 9 Criminal (03:35) 10 Arrabal (03:57) 11 Domingo (04:13) 12 Paris, Texas (06:45) |
| Lunático : Allmusic album Review : After the global smash that was La Revancha del Tango, issued in 2001, expectations for Gotan Projects Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Muller, and Eduardo Makaroff were high. After all, they created a new kind of electronic fusion in taking the tango, street, and folk music forms from Latin America (played by studio musicians) and melding them with dub, downtempo, other more subtle forms of electronica. On Lunatico (named for tango master Carlos Gardels racehorse), the band took a step back into the music that inspired them in the first place. They engaged a full tango quartet, with returning vocalist Cristina Villalonga, pianist and musical director Gustavo Beytelmann, and a small host of others (including desert moodscape rockers Calexico on "Amor Porteño"), a rap performed by Xoxmo, and a spoken word performance by Jimi Santos. The album was recorded alternately in Paris and Buenos Aires. Musically, Lunatico is adventurous, it engages the tango directly, both musically and in spirit. It mixes beats to be sure, but its so much more musical than its predecessor by allowing strings, Nini Flores bandoneon, and the standup bass of Patrice Caratini to hold sway over the top of most tunes. Check the rap tune here "Mi Confesión," with Santos gliding over a swath of strings and a pulsing bandoneon. The vanguard tango of the title track, performed in 3/4 time, creates a dance rhythm that slips and swirls over sampled voices and the sound of Gardels horse galloping. A breakbeat drum kit is layered in the choruses, and the voice of the racemaster. Then theres the nocturnal "Notas," with its loops, and over the top of a subtle layer of acoustic guitar, a narrator is speaking of the direct passion of the tango itself. Flores bandoneon carves out a melody only to be joined by a gentle yet edgy bath of strings. "Amor Porteño," (with Villalonga and Calexico) is a strange and anxious way to open a recording. The electric guitars, piano, and spare, hypnotic drum kit begin to turn darkly as Villalonga sings her tale of passion and torment. "Criminal" is a compelling track; not because it is accessible, but because it isnt. What begins as a traditional milonga is quickly turned inside out over the course of its nearly seven minutes. Its paranoid and aesthetically moving, dramatic and seductive, as well as disorienting. Acoustic instruments begin an uptempo tango only to be driven underneath by an electric bass, samples of nearly imperceptible spoken voices, and an electronic pulse that plays a mid-tempo disco vamp. As bandoneon and strings climb atop one another, the drama in the track becomes almost unbearable, aching for release. When Beytelmanns piano reasserts the melody, both strings and synthetic elements reflect a journey which has moved away from its theme into absence, though the theme remains. "Paris, Texas" (named after the Wim Wenders film, one is to presume), reflects a journey across the desert into the el corazon sangrante of the jungle. Percussion by Facundo Guevara, on deep-tuned hand drums, hypnotize as acoustic guitar meanders through the skeletal melody and maracas and bandoneon decorate the sparse soundscape that seems to get added to with every chorus, yet remains nearly devoid of movement. Piano enters, then disappears, only to return to eventually take the cut out alone. Lunatico is a brave and exotic experiment. It breaks ground even as it re-seals the old-world tango in time and space. What remains, however, is something unspeakable, some whisper of what the past offers the future and how the future tentatively embraces it. It is a poetic, moving, and disorienting recording that comes from the shadowy worlds of history into the cloudy pre-dawn with only memories and ideas wrapped in each others clothes. Messrs. Cohen Solal, Makaroff, and Muller are to be commended for their musical bravery; it would have been so easy to repeat the formula; instead theyve ventured into unknown territory. | ||
 | Album: 5 of 11 Title: Gotan Project (Live At KCRW) Released: 2006-11-13 Tracks: 3 Duration: 14:52 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Diferente (05:38) 2 Notas (04:23) 3 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (04:51) |
 | Album: 6 of 11 Title: El Norte Released: 2006-11-14 Tracks: 3 Duration: 15:28 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 El Norte (04:36) 2 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (live) (04:54) 3 Arrabal (Haaksman & Haaksman remix) (05:58) |
 | Album: 7 of 11 Title: Live Released: 2008-11-10 Tracks: 26 Duration: 2:14:28 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Live Intro (01:32) 2 Queremos Paz (04:14) 3 Vuelvo al Sur (06:02) 4 El Capitalismo Foráneo (05:47) 5 La del Ruso (06:29) 6 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (08:26) 7 Nocturna (02:48) 8 Tríptico (09:36) 9 Chungas Revenge (05:17) 10 Last Tango in Paris (06:19) 11 Sola (07:09) 12 Santa María (version orquestral) (02:56) 1 Diferente (06:28) 2 La Vigüela (05:36) 3 Amor Porteño (05:23) 4 Época (04:57) 5 Notas (04:29) 6 Lunático (03:16) 7 Che Bandonéon (interlude) (01:21) 8 Una Música Brutal (04:01) 9 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (04:56) 10 Arrabal (04:51) 11 El Norte (05:13) 12 Criminal (03:45) 13 Tríptico (09:25) 14 Diferente (version orquestral) (03:59) |
| Live : Allmusic album Review : Released in 2008, Gotan Object is a live double-CD from the Parisian-based electro/Nuevo tango trio, featuring material from the tours of their first two albums. The first disc, recorded at Londons Kentish Town Forum, includes live renditions of their debut La Revancha del Tango, such as their re-workings of Frank Zappas "Chungas Revenge," and the Last Tango in Paris theme, plus early singles "Santa Maria" and "Triptico." Disc Two, recorded in Neuchatel, Switzerland, covers their 2006 Lunatico tour, and includes the hits "Diferente" and "La Viguela," alongside the Calexico collaboration "Amor Porteno," and several tracks from their first LP. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 11 Title: Greatest Hits Released: 2010 Tracks: 32 Duration: 2:37:12 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Tango Square (03:48) 2 Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) (06:00) 3 Mi Confesión (04:20) 4 Last Tango In Paris (05:53) 5 La Gloria (03:50) 6 Triptico (08:25) 7 La Viguela (05:02) 8 Rayuela (04:29) 9 Queremos Paz (05:18) 10 Diferente (03:39) 11 La Del Ruso (06:24) 12 Amor Porteno (05:10) 13 El Norte (04:34) 14 De Nombre A Hombre (03:27) 15 Domingo (04:16) 16 Panamericana (04:33) 1 La Cruz Del Sur (05:28) 2 Peligro (03:59) 3 Vuelvo Al Sur (06:59) 4 Arrabal (04:00) 5 Una Musica Brutal (04:14) 6 Tu misterio (03:19) 7 Confianzas (05:30) 8 El Capitalismo Foraneo (06:09) 9 El mensajero (02:33) 10 Chungas Revenge (05:04) 11 Notas (04:20) 12 Desilusión (04:22) 13 Criminal (03:37) 14 Epoca (04:31) 15 Sola (07:09) 16 Paris, Texas (06:46) |
 | Album: 9 of 11 Title: Tango 3.0 Released: 2010-04-19 Tracks: 11 Duration: 43:24 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Tango Square (03:44) 2 Rayuela (04:25) 3 Desilusión (04:22) 4 Peligro (03:57) 5 La gloria (03:47) 6 Mil millones (05:00) 7 Tu misterio (03:19) 8 De hombre a hombre (03:23) 9 El mensajero (02:33) 10 Panamericana (04:29) 11 Érase una vez (04:20) |
 | Album: 10 of 11 Title: La Revancha en Cumbia Released: 2011-10-17 Tracks: 10 Duration: 48:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Queremos Paz (King Coya remix) (05:15) 2 Época (Chancha Via Circuito remix) (05:29) 3 Chungas Revenge (Axel Krygier remix) (05:01) 4 Tríptico (Frikstailers remix) (04:10) 5 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (Chancha Via Circuito remix) (04:31) 6 Una Música Brutal (El Hijo de la Cumbia remix) (04:32) 7 El Capitalismo Foráneo (Bomba Estéreo remix) (04:30) 8 Last Tango in Paris (Fauna remix) (03:56) 9 La del Ruso (Tremor, Metabombo remix) (05:07) 10 Vuelvo al Sur (El Remolon remix) (05:38) |
| La Revancha en Cumbia : Allmusic album Review : In April of 2011 on Record Store Day, Gotan Project released a 10" vinyl preview of La Revancha en Cumbia. The project features remixed tracks from Gotans first album, La Revancha del Tango. The original album, released in September 2001, is revisited here in a deluxe two-disc package that includes a remastered version of the album along with the full remix set. Each remix is by an artist associated with the nueva cumbia scene, including King Coya, Chancha Via Circuito, Axel Krygier, Frikstailers, El Hijo de la Cumbia, El Remolón, and Bomba Estéreo. | ||
 | Album: 11 of 11 Title: Best Of Released: 2011-11-07 Tracks: 15 Duration: 1:13:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Santa María (del Buen Ayre) (05:58) 2 Época (04:28) 3 La gloria (04:08) 4 Diferente (05:23) 5 Rayuela (04:25) 6 Una música brutal (04:11) 7 Mi Confesión (04:20) 8 Peligro (03:57) 9 Tríptico (08:26) 10 Strength to Love (04:20) 11 Panamericana (04:29) 12 Amor Porteño (05:07) 13 El Norte (04:36) 14 Checkmate / Jaque mate (04:10) 15 Last Tango in Paris (05:50) |
| Best Of : Allmusic album Review : Showcasing their innovative fusion of tango and electronica, Parisian three-piece Gotan Projects first Best Of features 15 tracks spanning their ten-year career. Alongside two previously unreleased tracks ("Strength to Love," "Checkmate") and "El Norte," the sole contribution from their 2007 EP of the same name, there are five offerings from 2001 debut La Revancha del Tango, including their cover of Gato Barbieris theme to the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, three numbers from 2006s Lunatico, including a collaboration with American alt-country outfit Calexico ("Amor Porteno"), and four cuts from 2010s Tango 3.0. | ||