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artist: Tonino Baliardo
title: Essences
date: 2000
label: Columbia
genre: Flamenco
rls. date: Jan/2004
tracks: 12
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 73,6 MB
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Tonino Baliardo, lead guitarist of the Gipsy Kings from France, has made
an attempt without the band to update the rhumba flamenca sound from the
south of France on his eponymously titled second album. Hanging with a
number of the Kings and the idiosyncratic postmodern production of
Gerard Prevost, Baliardo's music is more firmly rooted than ever in his
traditional rhythms and melodies, it's just that with the popping of
Carlos Benavent's electric bass on "Gitanito" and the electronic
programming on "Rumba Caliente" and "Cosso," or even the Hammond B3 by
Bolsadan on "Redemption," culture shock of the new is imprinted
everywhere on the recording. Yet, there is nothing revisionist about the
music - not even remotely. The new instrumentation creates different
ambiences and textures, but musically the steam of the tradition
percolates everywhere from this CD. Other notables are the ballads, such
as "Cynthia," and the Django Reinhardt-meets-Cuban son "Recuerdo
Apasionado" that closes the set. This is a fine outing; it offers a
deeper, wider view of rhumba flamenca in the context of a new millennium
and a new kind of traditionalism. - Thom Jurek
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01-Sabroso [04:59]
02-Recuerdo Apasionado [03:07]
03-Redemption [04:59]
04-Manolete [03:48]
05-Cosso [04:19]
06-Gitanito [05:36]
07-Bossa Nueva [04:32]
08-Cynthia [04:07]
09-Rumba Caliente [03:32]
10-RΩverie [05:25]
11-Carvan Road [05:38]
12-Remember Django [03:28]
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53:30 min
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