| Alegranza | 
 enlarge | Artist: El Guincho
Label: Beggars Xl Recording
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5349
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40361
UPC: 634904036126
EAN: 0634904036126
ASIN: B001EN465M
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping
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| Tracks:
| • | Palmitos Park | | • | Antillas | | • | Fata Morgana | | • | Kalise | | • | Cuando Maavilla Fui | | • | Buenos Matrimonios Ahi Fuera | | • | Costa Paraiso | | • | Prez Lagarto | | • | Polca Mazurca |
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Product Description
El Guincho is Pablo Diaz-Reixa, born in Spain. This release is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicalia, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums, and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats, and exotica production.
Album Description
El Guincho is Pablo Daz-Reixa, born in the Canary Islands and now based in Barcelona. His mind blowing 2008 debut is a mix of Afro-Beat percussion, Calypso harmonies, Psych Tropiclia, World Music samplers, Doo Wop, Trance repetition, underwater Pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, up-tempo beats and exotica production. Alegranza was released in Spain in the last days of December 2007 and went out of print in less than a month. His popularity is rising to heady heights all around the world with a cult status thanks to Pitchfork and constant blog posts. Mistletone.
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| Customer Reviews:
Percussive, VERY percussive November 23, 2008
not really too much to notice at first aside from the drums... lots of percussion. but it grows on you and you find yourself hitting play after it ends and going back for more immediately. did I mention the drums? the different layers of drums and the energy they induce in you??? try to give it a GOOD listen to see if you like them, but it will get under your skin. just thinking about it makes me want to put it on and dance around the room. seriously, when I was listening to it for the first time, my mom came in to ask me a question and she started dancing in place.
if the ubiquitous "they" ever think of the ultimate collaboration, it should have this dude doing the beats, Juana Molina doing the background atmospherics, Q-Tip, Quasimoto and maybe Talib Kweli doing the verses. "they" could also have broken and dented helium tanks as the cover art (go ahead and do this!!! you don't need to give me any royalties for the idea!!!)
disclaimer: if you don't have natural rhythm, you might want to pick up something from 3 Doors Down instead. nothing wrong with them, but if you're looking at this review, you probably already have an idea about it (and will therefore appreciate it). f it, I'm gonna' go ahead and give it 5 stars (was going to be 4 stars, but thinking about the energy of the album got me all worked up, so I had to reconsider).
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