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Average customer review:Track Listing
- Way Up
- Gaucho
- Atacama
- Coyita
- Jardin
- De Ushuaia la Quiaca
- Zenda
- Lela
- Iguazu
- Pampa
- Del Pago
- Vuelta
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #56180 in Music
- Released on: 1998-01-13
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Gustavo Santaolalla is a talented multi-instrumentalist from Argentina who has been extremely involved in bringing new sounds to an age-old culture. Playing a variety of stringed instruments including the guitar, the guitarron, the charango, and the ronroco, Santaolalla bridges the gap between traditional musics and forward-thinking compositions. He reveals an unusually progressive vision filled with cascades of chiming sounds and the understated influences of Japan, Africa, and Eastern Europe, as well as Latin America. Accompanied by his associate Anibal Kerpel on vibraphone and melodia, Santaolalla has made an instrumental album of intense passion and evocative songwriting. Gustavo's rapid picking and constant strumming of strings provide a solid foundation for his melodic innovations as clusters of notes rise majestically and then quietly fall away. --Mitch Myers
Customer Reviews
Soothing sounds from all over southamerican continent
Interesting how the producer of such heavy acts of "Rock en Espannol", such as Molotov, Bersuit Bergarabat, Arbol and Cafe Tacuba (this last one, being the "softest" act of the group,) and 70's Argentinan rocker, can come up with such a SOOTHING recording.
He plays along with a couple of other musicians all sorts of string instruments from accross South America, and comes up with a VERY diverse recording, with a distinctive signature: you can almost SEE THE PLACES, you can travel with him.
Highly recommended:
-Track One, "Way Up" - a progressive and beautiful string arrangement that takes you to new altitudes.
-Track Four, "Coyita" - a beautiful track that leads you through a pastoral trip.
-Track Eight, "Lela" - was just like being back home... (I'm originally from Venezuela.)
-Track Nine, "Iguazu," which I actually first heard in the soundtrack of "The Insider".
My favorite ..
This is one of my favorite CDs of the 2000 or so in my collection. It regularly finds its way into my current play mix, and, in an odd way, has become a Christmas-time standard in the household (i.e. good time for *real* music). This acoustic masterpiece bears no resemblance to his earlier "Gas" (which is fine, I suppose, if you like driving electric guitar (but that's what my Hendrix collection is for)). This beautiful CD has an emotional quality such that you will find yourself just listening, not doing anything else, quietly taking it in.
His other album, "Santaolalla", does not appear to be available in the US.
Gustavo Santaolalla - Ronroco
A pesar de su trabajo como productor de bandas más ligadas al pop y al rock, como Café Tacuba, en este disco Gustavo Santaolalla nos muestra su visión personal de la música latinoamericana, y, en particular, de la música andina argentina. Para esto, ocupa instrumentos tradicionales como el charango, el ronroco (un charango más grande), la guitarra y el guitarrón, pero, si bien los ocupa respetando sus características intrínsecas y sus técnicas específicas (como los redobles y arpegios del charango), los toma para crear obras distintas a las que usualmente escuchamos. Por otra parte, añade instrumentos de otras tradiciones, como el whistle, la armónica, el vibráfono y la melódica, que entregan colores completamente distintos, pero muy enriquecedores (bien ensamblados y empastados, además, gracias a una muy buena grabación). En cuanto a los motivos musicales, las armonías y los ritmos, todos ellos están tomados de la tradición folklórica antes mencionada, pero con alteraciones: los giros y los cambios de acordes son más osados, y se permite más espacio para el desarrollo de los temas. Esto último ocurrre en más de un par de obras, que prácticamente no tienen melodías, y están constituidas por amplios paisajes sonoros de arpegios y/o redobles, que provocan un efecto completamente ambiental y envolvente, con apenas ligeras variaciones a lo largo de su duración. En definitiva, este disco es una excelente muestra de cómo, a partir de elementos conocidos y tradicionales, y gracias a una recombinación, cuestionamiento y adición de elementos, es posible conseguir obras muy novedosas y originales.
P.D.: dentro de la misma línea, recomiendo el disco "Lejanía" de Inti Illimani, en el que este grupo chileno aborda el repertorio andino con composiciones propias y ajenas, y con arreglos igualmente interesantes.




