La Revancha del Tango (2001)

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Frenchmans Phillippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff and Christophe H Mueller, who are people really charmed by tango, disclose this style from the new point of view - they mix the inflammatory Argentine rhythms with electronic sound. "La Revancha Del Tango" is the first full-fledged album by Gotan Project. In contrast to their colleagues from Deep Forest and 1 Giant Leap, Gotan Project don't only use the achievements of the style, but also invite modern Latin-American musicians to take parts in their recordings. And all these violin, guitar, piano, contrabass, and accordion do sound very strikingly together with electronic accompaniment. As a result, the album leaves warm emotional impressions. All the tracks are various, but all of them are charged with southern energy. Behind soft trip-hop with southern accent the classical Argentine tango stands, which is further supported by sensible voice of Cristina Vilallonga. Feelings don't become quite during the album, and they carries the soul away to the world of southern passions and pleasures. In short, tango is back.