Jun 28, 2017 Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango (Full Album) Gotan Project. Unsubscribe from Gotan Project? Cancel Unsubscribe. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 49.6K. This album is a compilation of classic tangos from the likes of Anibal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla and Gotan Project remixes. The album also includes a bonus CD with the track La Cruz del Sur - which was meant to be included on La Revancha del Tango, but didn't make the cut in 2001. Their last album Tango 3.0 was released on April 19, 2010.
The Gotan Project brought Latin/electronic fusion to a whole new level with their debut album LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO. Taking the sensuous tango as their base, they invigorate their music with a sinuous grace, creating music that's at once familiar and tremendously invigorating. The swelling accordions on 'Queremos Paz' make you feel as if you're strolling through a Buenos Aires bazaar, while the rhythmic rigor and seductive vocals of 'Epoca' are all about the ballroom. But tango isn't the only flavor on the menu: 'Chunga's Revenge' and 'Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)have hints of dub, while 'Triptico' edges into house.
'Vuelvo Al Sur' (originally written by tango master Astor Piazzolla) returns us to the pure delight of modernized tango. But my favorite track has to be the cover of 'Last Tango in Paris.' While the melody is straightforward, the careful layering of instruments (piano, strings, accordion) give the song a cumulative strength and a swooning elegance. While their style has been emulated a hundred times over by now, no one has quite touched their achievement.
Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.[1]
History[edit]
Gotan Project formed in 1999. Their first release was 'Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foráneo' in 2000, followed by the album La Revancha del Tango in 2001. Their music is based on Argentinean tango, but also uses elements such as samples, beats, and breaks.
Live material was also broadcast on Gilles Peterson's world music show Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 in May 2004. The band has also released a DJ set: Inspiración Espiración - A Gotan Project DJ Set Selected & Mixed by Philippe Cohen Solal (2004). This album is a compilation of classic tangos from the likes of Aníbal Troilo, Ástor Piazzolla and Gotan Project remixes. The album also includes a bonus CD with the track 'La Cruz del Sur' – which was meant to be included on La Revancha del Tango, but did not make the cut in 2001.
In 2006 they released a second studio album called Lunático, and in 2010 Tango 3.0, their last studio album to date.
Before Gotan Project[edit]
Eduardo Makaroff arrived in France in the early 1990s to develop Argentine tango music, he performed with his band 'Mano a Mano'.
Christoph H. Müller and Philippe Cohen Solal formed a duo called Boyz from Brazil.
Band name[edit]
The name of the trio is a form of word play called 'al vesre' that is very common in Lunfardo, an argot of Rioplatense Spanish. This wordplay involves, in the simplest cases, moving the last syllable to the beginning of the word ('vesre' itself is 'revés' – the Spanish word for 'reverse' – with the second syllable in first). Thus, the word Tango becomes Gotan, the name the trio have chosen for their project.
Use in popular culture[edit]
Members of Gotan Project performing in Brasilia in 2007.
The song 'Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)' from the album La Revancha del Tango was featured as the music for the main dance sequence in the 2004 movie Shall We Dance?, with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. American gymnast Alicia Sacramone used an excerpt of the piece for her floor routine in international competition, including the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while teammate Samantha Peszek set her routine to their rendition of 'Whatever Lola Wants'. Their music has been featured in American television shows Nip/Tuck, Sex and the City, Brothers & Sisters and Chuck, as well as the 2003 Swedish documentary on consumerism, Surplus, and the 2004 documentary on worker-led factory occupation in Argentina, The Take. In 2004, they recorded a little-known Piazzolla piece with Brigitte Fontaine: 'Rue Saint-louis-en-l'île'. In late 2006, the track 'Epoca' from the album of La Revancha del Tango was featured in The Truth About Charlie and also UK television advertisements for Boots, directed by David LaChapelle. Epoca has also featured in the Portuguese Fox Broadcasting Company series commercials. Their music has also been featured on several episodes of the UK hit TV show, Top Gear. 'Epoca' has also been used as the background music for the Finish dishwasher detergent brand in much of the world (known as Calgonit in continental Europe), with the tagline 'The Diamond Standard'.
In 2004, another track from the album La Revancha del Tango was featured in a motion picture, this time in the movie Ocean's Twelve. The song 'El Capitalismo Foraneo' starts playing at the end of the scene where Catherine Zeta-Jones' character interrogates 'Matsui', played by Robbie Coltrane.
In 2010, 'Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)' was again featured in a motion picture: Knight and Day, an action comedy film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. In this same movie, 'Diferente' from their 2006 album Lunatico was also used in a scene where Roy & June (portrayed by Cruise & Diaz) are evading local police through city streets.
In April 2012, the band appeared for the first time on US network television on Dancing With The Stars, taking part in the 'Results Show'.
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