Name: Puta's Fever [4/6]
Brand: Because Music
SKU: 176643928
Price: 295 HKD
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Puta's Fever

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Album: Puta's Fever
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Mano Negra	More Info...
2)	Rock 'N' Roll Band	More Info...
3)	King Kong Five	More Info...
4)	Soledad	More Info...
5)	Sidi H'bibi	More Info...
6)	The Rebel Spell	More Info...
7)	Peligro	More Info...
8)	Pas Assez De Toi	More Info...
9)	Magic Dice	More Info...
10)	Mad House	More Info...
11)	Guayaquil City	More Info...
12)	Voodoo	More Info...
13)	Patchanka	More Info...
14)	La Rançon Du Succès	More Info...
15)	The Devil's Call	More Info...
16)	Roger Cageot	More Info...
17)	El Sur	More Info...

Album: Puta's Fever
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Mano Negra	More Info...
2)	Rock 'N' Roll Band	More Info...
3)	King Kong Five	More Info...
4)	Soledad	More Info...
5)	Sidi H'bibi	More Info...
6)	The Rebel Spell	More Info...
7)	Peligro	More Info...
8)	Pas Assez De Toi	More Info...
9)	Magic Dice	More Info...
10)	Mad House	More Info...
11)	Guayaquil City	More Info...
12)	Voodoo	More Info...
13)	Patchanka	More Info...
14)	La Rançon Du Succès	More Info...
15)	The Devil's Call	More Info...
16)	Roger Cageot	More Info...
17)	El Sur	More Info...

Performer Notes

Mano Negra: Oscar Tramor (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Helmut Krumar (guitar, keyboards, background vocals, programming); Jo (guitar, bass, background vocals); Roger Cageot (guitar, background vocals); Tonio Del Borno (trumpet, background vocals); Kropol (trombone); Santiago "El Aguila" Casariego (drums, background vocals); Garbancito (percussion).
Additional personnel: Mme. Oscar, Zofia, Naro "Chihuahua" (vocals); Alain "L'Enclume De Choisy" (acoustic bass).
Recorded at Mix It Studio, Paris, France.
The highly influential Puta's Fever opened the door for a flood of young rock bands outside the English-speaking music world to fashion new hybrids that reflected their own musical cultures blended with popular worldwide sounds like rock and reggae. Manu Chao and company started from patchanka, a fast-paced French music hall style that sounds like speeded-up ragtime or hot jazz, and started singing songs in Spanish, French, and Arabic. The motor driving all the disparate elements on Puta's Fever is Santiago el Aguila Casariego's fierce drumming. And what an array of styles -- calliope-like keyboards, a Latin groove on "Patchanka," Tex-Mex on Joe "King" Carrasco's "Patchuko Hop," and dub reggae on "Peligro" -- pass through Mano Negra's manic mix. "Mano Negra" sounds like soundtrack music for a spaghetti western surf movie (really), while "Rebel Spell" marries a gospel chorus and hard rock guitar to a rapped street tale of shooting Brother Rasta dead. Puta's Fever is a triumph of eclecticism as a style where each song shifts into a different musical gear, and one key jumping-off point for the rock en espaol (or Latin alternative) school. Which doesn't mean that Mano Negra abandoned their original inspiration -- English lyrics dominate and there's a strong identification with a classic rock & roll outlaw stance in "Rock 'N' Roll Band" and the '50s-rooted "Devil's Call." ~ Don Snowden

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