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Tentenelaire (Galileo, Spain)

2010 release by the Sevillian ensemble seeks to create new folk from Andalusia, balancing their new outlook with respectful approaches to popular song and the creative impulse.

   

Tracks: Musicians:
Ricardo de Castro: (Acoustic guitar, mandola and voice)
Rafa Alvarez: (Accordion and flutes)
Fernando García Conde: (drums, Arab & African percussion,cajon flamenco...)
Jesus García: (Fiddle and mandolin)
Antón Ramírez: (Bass)

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The band says:
Deliciously politically incorrect. (Iñaki Peña, Trébede, Radio 3)
Ricardo de Castro’s peculiar vocal range is surprising in a CD where accordions and fiddles also exhibit their potential seduction. (Fernando Neira, El País- Babelia)
Contradanza’s CD provokes a contagious pleasure when we come across such a colorful and fresh music. (Miki Torrents, World Music)
They progress with self-confidence on the slippery path that brings them close to Andalusian folklore without falling into flamenco sterotypes. References are made to Penguin Café Orchestra but also to Celtic music. Miquel Jurado (El País) Their music brings about an unmistakable fragrance of Atlantic tides. (Luis Rei, Crónicas da Terra, Portugal)

Contradanza, a folk and acoustic music band, was born in 1998 in Sevilla (Andalucía, Spain) made up by musicians from Cadiz, Sevilla, Huelva and Córdoba. Contradanza offers a different perspective of folk and traditional music by collecting various influences they manage to blend in their acoustic mixer: traditional music, romances, flamenco, jazz, arab music, renaissance dances... Special focus is made on the revision of traditional romances and of Andalusian popular lyrical poems as well as on the composition of their own pieces based on the study of contemporary Spanish poetry.

Esperado tercer disco de uno de los grupos sevillanos que mejor ha sabido recrear el cancionero popular andaluz. Ricardo de Castro y los suyos vuelven a obsequiarnos con un maravilloso trabajo donde la música tradicional andaluza se abraza con otros géneros como el folk, la canción de autor, la música clásica, el jazz y hasta el reggae. “Tentenelaire”, palabra cuyo significado es “mestizo”, supone un paso más en esta exploración. A lo largo de los 13 temas que conforman este nuevo trabajo, los miembros de Contradanza vuelven a demostrar que es que el encuentro entre músicos supone siempre el encuentro entre gustos, lenguajes, destrezas y, desde luego, emociones. Y esto es precisamente lo que abunda en “Tentenelaire”: emoción. Basta escuchar temas como el que abre el disco, “Coplas del desengaño”, una tierna canción con letra popular en la que Ricardo de Castro se presenta como un “forasterito en busca de amores”, o “Agua San Marcos”, tema que incorpora en una cadencia sefardí fantásticos solos de guitarra eléctrica con tintes de jazz fusión. En definitiva, un trabajo fantástico que se suma a una exquisita discografía.

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