Just got back from Buenos Aires with a few CDs I'm feeling right now.
Electronic Tango. Yep, I know, I know. But it looks like it's not just French carpetbaggers. There are real locals doing this stuff. Went to a night of it as part of the B.A. tango festival, which was pretty enjoyable.
Particularly pleasant : "Tanghetto". On first aquaintance it's fairly ordinary, but it grows. I'm finding myself listening to it continuously while I'm working. Also good : "Narcotango" and "Evolution Tango". Has it's moments : "San Telmo Lounge".
"Landing" by "Tremor" (http://www.tremormusic.com/) is a very nice electronica album with low-key hints of folk instruments and melodies. Mainly ambient tinkling, rhythms and interesting sounds. Not quite sure what to compare it with. It's surprisingly good example of this kind of thing.
The best thing I found : "Echalle Semilla" by "Axel Krygier" (http://www.axelk.com/). This one's hard to classify. A very mixed, lovely, personal sounding album. Starts with a couple of beautiful, melodic loungey pieces with organ and whistling. (See if you can find "Silbad el calipso" online) Then moves into slightly jazzier / funkier territory. Some jazz elements. Some breakbeats. Some salsa and tango. Then suddenly he's just playing with the sampler, triggering loops of speech and children laughing etc. After that, there's songs that sound they were recorded in the back of the taxi and other stuff. Reminds me a bit of Pascal Comelade, not the sound, but the mood. Highly recommended.
― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)
You've reminded me I must get the most recent Babasonicos, which by all accounts is utterly fantastic.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Kyle. Haven't heard the Juana Molina. Sounds good thought so I must look for it online.
My guess is Tremor is much more ambient. Think of something on Leaf records like Manitoba or Susumo Yokota, or think Boards of Canada without the heaviosity.
― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Argentinian
haul is good but maybe not as good as, oh wait. . .
Some of this sounds pretty interesting, judging by your descriptions.
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I second TREMOR. I also picked it up in Argentina. I'm not sure I listen to it that often. Axel Krygier is fantastic. He has two albums out. He also now has a group called Sexteto Irreal that seems to play weekly in Buenos Aires that's really good (they've adapted/adopted some of his songs for a live setting with theremin, loops, etc). Christian Basso is also in the group and his solo stuff is also very good.
― Jacobo, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)
six months pass...
To bring up some Argentines who worked or are currently working in an older style of music: does anyone know much about either Peteco Carabajal (who I discovered by way of one really great cut on a general Latin music sampler, and who seems to be pretty major) and Pablo Nemirovsky, who contributes a composition to Cuban conguero Miguel "Anga" Diaz's
Echu Mingua, a piece that ends up sounding a lot like the Kronos Quartet performing a Fred Frith composition. (The comparison to Kronos may simply be due to my not listening to many other string quartet type outfits, but the similarity to Frith's compositional style is more striking.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
I think there was meant to be a question mark in there somewhere?
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)