█████████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▓▓
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▒▒
████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▒▓
█████████████████████████████████████████ ░▒ ▒▒
░██████████████████████████████████████▒▒▓ ▓
███████████████████████████████████████ ▒░
████████████████████████████████████ █
██████████████████████████████████▒ █
▓█████████████████████████████████ ▒
████████████████████████████████ ▒▒
▒██████████████████████████████ ▒█
█████████████████████████████ ▒█▓▒
████████████████████████████ ░██░
░█░ ███████████████████████████ ████
██████████████████████████▒ ▓████
█████████████████████████▓ █████░
█████████████████████████▓ ██████░
████████████████████████▓ ███████
███████████████████████▓ ████████▒
▓█████████████████████▒ ▓█████████
████████████████████░ ░███████████▒
█████████░██████▓░ ▒█████████████▒
██████▓ ██ ▒▒█████████████████▒
░█████ ███ ░ ░▒████████████████████▒▒
██████▒░█▒██░█ █▒ ████████████████████████▒
████████▒ ▓███ ████▓█ ██████████████████████░
███████ ▒ ░██░ █ ███ ▒███████████████████████
███████░ ▒ ███ █ ░██████████████████████████
████████▓ ▓█░ ▒██████████████████████████████▒
████████░▒██▒██████████████████████████████████
████████████ █████████████████████████████████▒
████████████ ████████████████████████████████
████████████▓░██████████████████████████████▒ ████ ██ ██
█████████████ █████████████████████████████▒ ██ ██
██████████████████████████████████████████ ████ ██ ████ █████ ████
█████████████████████████████████████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
███████████████████████████████████████▓ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ██████
██████████████████████████████████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ █ ██
████████████████████████████████████▒ █████ ██████ ██████ ███ █████
███████████████████████████████████▒ ▒
█████████████████████████████████ ▒▒░ ELITE RECORD PLAYERS
███████████████████████████████ ▒▒
█████████████████████████████ ▒ ▒▒
██████████████████████████▓ ▒▒▒
████████████████████████ ░▒
████████████████████ ░▒▓▒ ░
███████████████▒▒░░▒░█░ ░
┌────────┐
────┤ Info ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
Artist | Josh Rouse
Title | El Turista
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 36:26
Label | Bedroom Classics Store | 2010
Catalog | BEDCD009 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 235 kbps Size | 64.92 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
┌────────┐
────┤ Tracks ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
01. Bienvenido 2:18
02. Duerme 4:10
03. Lemon Tree 3:04
04. Sweet Elaine 4:27
05. Mesie Julian 2:37
06. I Will Live On Islands 3:02
07. Valencia 4:36
08. Cotton Eye Joe 3:57
09. Las Voces 3:52
10. Don't Act Tough 4:23
┌────────┐
────┤ Notes ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
Although born in Nebraska, singer/songwriter Josh Rouse moved to various
cities throughout his childhood and subsequent musical career, driven at
first by his father's military career and later by his desire to take
inspiration from different environments. He paid tribute to his birthplace
on his 1998 debut, "Dressed Up Like Nebraska", and explored the influence
of his adopted home state, Tennessee, with 2005's "Nashville". Rouse later
settled in Spain and explored the country's musical traditions, although
his songwriting continued to exhibit the summery, rootsy appeal of his
earlier work.
Rouse has never stayed in one place for very long, but "El Turista" - his
third album as a Spanish citizen - suggests he isnÆt leaving the
Mediterranean anytime soon. 'I'll send you postcards, boys!', he sings
during "I Will Live On Islands", one of the five songs to feature English
lyrics. Roughly half of "El Turista" is performed in Spanish, and far more
than that bears the country's influence, from the strum of Rouse's flamenco
guitar to the relaxed, siesta-worthy pitch of his voice. Rouse is still a
traveler at heart, though, and he samples from several different cultures
throughout the album, often devoting entire tracks - including the
instrumental "Bienvenido", which opens the disc - to his fascination with
Brazilian traditions.
Bossa nova and tropicalia are the major players, but Rouse even attempts
several samba numbers with moderate success, all the while dressing up his
songs in familiar layers of strings, harmonies, and minimalist piano
chords. The result is a globe-trotting pop album that sounds like nothing
he's attempted before, yet still retains enough of his signature
arrangements (courtesy of Brad Jones, producer of 1972, Nashville, and
Subtitulo, who reprises that role here) to make Rouse's multi-ethnic
transformation a believable one. "El Turista" takes some getting used to,
perhaps, but it's a solid piece of work.
┌────────┐
────┤ Group ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘