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Os Cempés
Moe a Moa (Discmedi, Spain)
$16.99
The Galician band’s fourth album, recorded live during two nights in Vigo in front of a crowd devoted to the band, displaying all the energy, humor and amazing instrumental and vocal skill that makes this band a cdRoots favorite.
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Sara, Sariña
Moe a Moa
Capitán Do
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| "Galician sextet Os Cempés' fourth release, recorded live in concert, suggests what rock 'n' roll might sound like had it been invented in the northwest corner of the Iberian peninsula instead of in New Jersey. Os Cempés is like two, two, two bands in one!: traditional ethnic sounds from Oscar Fernández' accordion and zanfona, Antón Vareal's gaitas and clarinet, and the vocals of Serxo Ces; jazzy rock from Oscar Painceiras' electric bass, Caba Garcia's electric guitar, and Jose Piñeiro's drum set. The addition of Ces' saxophone provides mellow density and bright accents, and the steel guitar of Alvaro Lamas on three tracks ranges from ethereal to pleasantly goofy. The result is infectiously upbeat, an alternative delectation of Galician music..." Jim Foley, RootsWorld |
Press release:
While many of us imagine nostalgic Celtic sounds when talking about the traditional music played in this North-Western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, Os Cempés came to make sure everybody knows there's also another side of Galician music: this heavy rhythmic, eminently danceable and deeply merry one. It's been a fact that for many years critics and popular music studious just 'forget' about the traditional music played for centuries in parties and celebrations as if it's represented a 'less noble' side of Galician history. Ok, that's a point of view, but when Os Cempés started playing their famous inflammatory concerts a whole generation of young folkers saluted them as standard bearers of a new way of understanding folk. Introducing rock instrumentation (including guitars, electric bass and in "Moe a Moa"…a steel guitar!) and, maybe more important, a rock attitude, Os Cempes has become a major reference in Galicia's trad musical scene. "Moe A Moa" is the band's fourth album and probably the best one. Recorded alive during two nights in Vigo in front of a crowd devoted to the band, this records is the definitive evidence of the unquestionable power on stage of this combo. Ten new songs plus three versions of themes extracted from the succesful "Circo Montecuruto" (the amazing project in which the band melted it's traditional music with a complete circus show, including the presence on stage of jugglers, trapeze artists, etc) completes the track-list of an album that doubtless will reach many new fans for Os Cempés.
Os Cempés are members of the same generation of young Galician folk musicians who accepted the responsability of not only to preserve the music traditions of their homeland but also the challenge of renew it. More or less in a similar way to Berrogüetto or Chouteira among many others, all of them in the main roles of the revolution that has been shaking the Galician traditional music scene since the early nineties.
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