Thanks for the info.
As a matter of interest, have you seen Ozomatli play live ?
How do they compare ? Is the music anything like Manu Chao (or, more likely
from your description, Mano Negra) ?
cheers,
OwenC
>From: "Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador"
><abarcelo@minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx>
>To: Owen Carroll <owenc1@hotmail.com>
>CC: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: gotan project and london
>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:13:27 -0600 (CST)
>
> > Also, a band called Los de Abajo are playing at Ronnie Scotts on Sunday
> > (apparently, signed to Luaka Bop label). Does anyone know what they're
>like
> > ?
>Yesp, I have know them since they started as a living room band back in
>the late eighties, here in Mexico City. Actually, a lot of their first
>(and, as far as I know only) album dates as back as those days. They were
>part of a huge wave of political bands that mixed punkish ska with Mexican
>music in those days. They were not by far the best of the movement, but
>they hold their own and have somehow managed to survive this far. They may
>be a little limited on their musical abilities (no virtuosos here), but
>they have a great live show. I saw them a few times during their US tour
>last year and they rocked everywhere they played, to a dominantly white
>anglo audience, which probably missed the whole political element, but
>danced and pogoed like I had never seen them in that part of the world.
>They start their show very latin and finish very punkish. Nice people,
>too.
>
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>On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Owen Carroll wrote:
>
> > Did anyone catch the Gotan Project on Worldwide last night ?
> >
> > La Revancha Del Tango sounds like a fantastic album, and, as Gilles
>said, a
> > fusion that actually works.
> > Really brought back some fond memories of Summer 2000, some of which I
>spent
> > in Buenos Aires (which has a fantastic club life, by the way).
> > BTW, believe that the word play mentioned last night, and used to form
>the
> > group's name (Gotan) is known as lunfardo. Can any portenos/portenas out
> > there confirm this ?
> >
> > Looking forward to seeing them if/when they come to London.
> > Speaking of which, looks like a fantastic week ahead, gig wise.
> > Coldcut and DJ Food at Cargo tonight, Oneness of JuJu at Jazz Cafe
>tomorrow
> > night, DJ Shadow on Sunday at the Scala, and Ozomatli on Thursday at the
> > Astoria.
> > Am going to try to get to Coldcut/DJ Food tonight (depends on my resolve
>and
> > the queue length), and Ozomatli on Thursday.
>
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > OwenC
> >
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