Album Lounge: La Radiolina
La Radiolina
Released: 2007 22 tracks-
- 1. 13 Días
- 6. El Kitapena
- 8. A Cosa
- 10. Mundo Révès
- 11. El Hoyo
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- 12. La Vida Tombola
- 13. Mala Fama
- 14. Panik Panik
- 15. Otro Mundo
- 17. Y Ahora Qué? [*]
- 18. Mama Cuchara [*]
- 19. Siberia [*]
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Manu Chao's music vids consistently capture a beautiful spirit on film. His brand new video for "Politik Kills" off La Radiolina is a prime example. Self-directed with JS Sauvaire co-directing, it's shot from Chao's perspective as he follows a young fella around Monrovia, Liberia. FADER Mag reports that the kid was a soldier during the civil war that ended only a year ago. As I watched this, I realized he's probably walked that same route a hundred times, touting a rif... MORE
MUSIC: TOP 15 01 Goodbye the Band - Sky Tiger LP [download it here, free] Goodbye the Band (download many more of his other albums here, free, as well) is my longtime friend and couple-of-times roommate, the New Jersey-born John Acquadro. He and I have bonded (and occasionally tussled) over the last near-decade about the music we make (among other things), and it is safe to say I've rarely (if ever) been more consistently astonished with a single person's musical output... MORE
too lazy to go into how fucing awesome mano negra was but the last album from the lead singer of that now defunct band is pretty tight
On my way to post something brief about Manu Chao's La Radiolina, I ran across a post of the new Magnetic Fields album, by one Spencer Owen, that totally nails what's wrong with the album. Check it out over here. I'd really like to see Stephen Merritt pull off an homage to the Jesus and Mary Chain, but if he's going to do it he'll need to dig a bit farther into that imagination of his. Basically what we get are some typically cute and pretty Magnetic Fields songs pasted... MORE






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